December

Tuesday December 3rd

Woah, it’s already December. It’s been a year now since I started journaling about this rain piece for resonators and brass. Since then the project has expanded to incorporate more computer-controled solenoid and motor-driven activation of the resonators, and the focus has shifted gradually away from brass again for a while.

I’m trying to finish some recording projects over the winter, some of which involve vague ideas about overdubs and additional instrumental arrangements, so I’m hoping to give the brass aspect of rain another look while I work on some of those things.

LMDB

I was using the API correctly… adding new astrid interfaces for batches of param updates is still a good idea though, I think – I only made it partway through the last time I picked it all up.

Next Astrid Instruments

Recent live outings have been mostly non-computer-based, but I’d like to take it back inside the computer again somewhat after prototyping some ideas with mixers and pedals. Sometimes it’s easier to see where the computer is most useful by removing it everywhere possible first.

In short: sampling, of course (at all time scales) and sequencing, of course, are places where the computer really shines. I think I can squeeze as many as 12 outputs from a headless setup around my old laptop mainboard, and potentially do much of the routing and filtering in a secondary layer with a mix of passive electronics and guitar pedals…

(oops I missed September!)