{"id":1423,"date":"2020-11-20T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:47:18","slug":"soundscapes-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"soundscapes around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the spring and summer of 2020 my students and I worked on a four-channel soundscapes installation that created a continuously remixed and varying aural collage of sound recorded from around the globe: Ecuador, Japan, Cuba, Antarctis, Europe, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The software was written by Clarissa Ray Porst in <a href=\"https:\/\/puredata.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PD<\/a> using some of my Markov Chain routines to determine the order of the fourteen three-minute pieces: each composer decided the probabilities of any of the other pieces following on from theirs. I then tweaked the overall probabilities with the aim of a balanced presentation and for the youtube version generated an almost seven-hour mix automatically, taking one of the many possible sequences generated by the PD software and writing the <a href=\"http:\/\/reaper.fm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DAW<\/a> file iteratively in Common Lisp, then rendering (here in stereo). Nice and efficient and a great piece of work by the composers involved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MWU7P3Wius8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the spring and summer of 2020 my students and I worked on a four-channel soundscapes installation that created a continuously remixed and varying aural collage of sound recorded from around the globe: Ecuador, Japan, Cuba, Antarctis, Europe, etc. The software was written by Clarissa Ray Porst in PD using some of my Markov Chain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,143],"tags":[3,214,213,212,54],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folkwang","category-teaching","tag-algorithms","tag-now-festival","tag-pure-data","tag-soundscapes","tag-surround-sound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}