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Chapter 4.2: 5 Faces of Randomness

By Rolf Kasten on April 11, 2024
Face 1: Looping Envelopes Plus S&H Feedback The principle of this face reads in short: a looping envelope (or two, or three ...) trigger a sample & hold module, which not only modulates the pitch of a VCO, but also feeds back its output to modulate the time related stages of the envelope(s). As a […]
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Chapter 4: Building blocks of generative patching

By Rolf Kasten on April 11, 2024
When I write “building blocks” in the headline to this chapter, I don ́t mainly think of certain modules. Discussing certain modules will be the matter of chapter 5. I think of certain combinations of modules here, and only exceptionally of a certain module, and only when I want to show a rather uncommon way […]
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Chapter 3.4: Certain patch techniques and examples

By Rolf Kasten on April 11, 2024
We are approaching chapter 4 about building blocks of generative patching with this sub-chapter 3.4. But whereas in chapter 4 the more technical and organisational aspects prevail, I ́d like to talk about a few patches of special musical and compositional meaning here in chapter 3.4 at first. Chapter 3.4.1: Switching voices and larger parts […]
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Chapter 3.3: Specific Compositional Techniques

By Rolf Kasten on April 11, 2024
This chapter is not at all meant to deliver a conclusive enumeration, but rather talks about and shows some especially remarkable and useful techniques. Well, let ́s start now. Chapter 3.3.1: Pitch dependency I talked about relations between normally independent sonic parameters in the last chapter. A quite special relation is pitch dependency of parameters. […]
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Chapter 3.2: Basic Compositional Techniques

By Rolf Kasten on April 11, 2024
There are three groups of basic compositional techniques, which are not exclusively generative music, but are taught at any school, high school and university, which deals with musical matters, only that we meet them in slightly different shape and forming here in generative music than we are used to see them in other musical styles […]
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Chapter 3: Compositional aspects of generative music

By Rolf Kasten on April 11, 2024
Nowhere else than in making music with modular synths do musicality & technique go such tightly hand in hand, does the artist need such deep understanding of both music & physics.
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