An exploration of digital site-specificity, this project places the user in a chaotically-deterministic loop. Since parameters change with each iteration, they must take time to figure out how the ecosystem works, and then sensitively compose with it, rather than into it. I see this as engaging with the intersection of instrument design with theories of sound ecologies. I am also using some machine learning and controller mapping to achieve this.
This project marks the second in my series “Grain FM”, an exploration of physical modelling and granular sampling/synthesis. In this particular manifestation, transients are mapped equidistantly about the unit circle, and then granularly sampled as controlled by weather data and gyroscopic controls.
Here is a brief demo utilising a piano and the circle of fifths.
You can download the patch with notes below: