Foreboding Planet (tribute to Bebe and Louis Barron) by Cork City Gamelan published on 2017-05-02T08:38:16Z This is a Tribute to Louis and Bebe Barron. Bebe passed away on April 20th, 2008. Her anniversary is my Birthday... but I was abroad, away from my studio, and laid up before then, hence the delay. I tried to build a software version of Todd Barton's (https://soundcloud.com/user7621213) popular Krell Patches for the Buchla synthesiser - lovers of Science Fiction will spot the connection. I was searching for original timbres which don't sound too bad when I compare them to Todd's mastery of his Buchla. I ended up with quite an original new instrument in my toolkit. It can probably be called an AM Synth: simple cascades of multiplied sine waves - no filters or other modifiers involved. Todd will hopefully tell me whether this qualifies as a Krell patch. The Nerd info: This is the first couple of minutes of a self-generating (automatically composed) 8 minutes long piece, one take, no edits, no added effects. A "Chaos Metronome" drives The Thing: Two controllable pulse generators, one modulating the other in an intricate manner, and each of them additonally controlled by its own very low frequency oscillator with an arbitrary complex wave shape, create the "beat". This goes into a sample and hold which can sample any signal (filtered noise for this piece) to create the control signals for the audio. Most of the routing for each control signal is determined by an algorithm built around two random generators. Nine sine waves interacting with each other make all the sounds you hear... anyway, enjoy! Genre electronic tonalities Comment by T R A M P E L F Â D and a little oskar sala..great one 2017-06-30T19:53:40Z Comment by In Mobile Oh yes oh yes ! 2017-05-06T09:30:30Z Comment by jussi piekkala The randomness actually carries a lot of sensitive timbres, I think. 2017-05-02T17:31:59Z Comment by akitone extraterrestrial singer/songwriter? 2017-05-02T14:31:11Z Comment by bartonmusic Beautiful! Bravo Gunther! 2017-05-02T12:50:30Z