Re: Experimental Apple II Music

[Poster <poster@!nospam!.aurora.cotse.net>]

Simon D. Williams wrote:
> Here's my latest Apple II noise project:
> http://www.archive.org/details/MICRO.MUSIC
> I had the idea to put an LP's worth of music on a single 5.25" floppy. The
> music is sequenced from sets of 16 samples which are mixed two at a time 
> "on
> the fly". At some point in the project I got a bit loopy and decided not to
> compose music in any traditional manner, but rather to use arbitrary
> sections of data as the score. This came about after I was viewing audio
> sample data in the monitor and noticed the byte sequences of the waveforms
> contained regular patterns with small variations which I thought would
> translate well into music. Personally, I find the results rather
> interesting, but as always YMMV.
> -s
>
> PS: scroll down for the disk image or ShrinkIt archive if you want the full
> multimedia experience (not recommended for emulators).
>
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The drums sound better this time around. The bass is still a bit overly 
bassy. I think the modem sounds used in "Drop the Connexion" really 
became part of the song and didn't feel like they were just thrown in 
(which the printing sounds in "ImageBanger" did). I sure hope you're 
promoting this stuff, especially "Drop the Connexion", which I think 
could become a cult classic in the noise scene.

I'm still amazed that you can make something that sounds that good just 
using an A2. Rock on!

-- Poster

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