Lots of distortion pedals! Angry sounds! Too much political news!
A few comments:
In all three of these I used a control voltage generated by RTcmix
([rtcmix~]) in Max/MSP to index into the 128 presets of the
Intellijel Plonk
module. That formed the random-sequencer-like rhythmic base
in each piece. On top of these I layered some guitar sounds.
For costik1 I did a fairly long improvisation on the guitar
and then sectioned it up into smaller fragments for the piece.
In costik2 I set up the guitar to make on-going sounds and
then sampled each one into a small chunk and pasted them together.
costik3 was built by applying the 'paulstretch' algorithm
to take a set of the chunks from costik2 and applying
a stretch factor
of 20 times the original length to each one.
The pitches heard 'fell out' of
the processed sound.
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Brad Garton
October, 2026