Author: Josh Kusmierz

This bounce is a collection of the techniques and ideas I plan on using. The synth used is a 1974 retro and it has two tracks, one which focuses on envelope changes and the other on granular synthesis techniques through Logic X’s “Alchemy.” The other “sounds” are generated from a snippet of Martin Luther King’s final speech and is real-time manipulated with envelope changes and granular synthesis, also within Alchemy. (Also music concrete techniques such as looping and splicing and reversing are used).

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This edited version includes much more varied use of envelope change. The polyphony is also changed as phrases are stretched and also shortened. Amplitude change and tempo changes have also been applied to “collapse the sense of pulse.”

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https://soundcloud.com/josh-kusmierz/project-2-renaisses2-kusmierz

The melodic material for this work is modeled after sixteenth-century polyphonic writing techniques. (Starting with something interesting to of course end up messing with. Do more with less) It contains three different logic imitation instruments, a B3, Clav, and vintage rhodes. The work is developed by use of real-time editing within the ES1 and ES2 plugins, editing factors such as distortion, speed, intensity, and wave form. The level of editing increases as the piece moves on to build intensity, with the more intense changes being saved for the end/climax of the piece.

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