Cosc 4P98 Csound Composition - Fun with Csound

By Jeffrey Tokar

Fun with Csound. When I started working with Csound I had no idea what I wanted to do for a composition so I decided to just have fun with it. By going over the examples from the Csound chapter one and looking at the Csound magazine I was able to conclude that Csound allowed you to change every aspect of sound and would make things very difficult to create a solid composition. So with this in mind I took my new found knowledge and play many scores until I found one that was loud and flowed with a unique sound.

The structure of the composition starts with the playing of the grain synthesis at followed by the sound of a frequency changing beat. I then add a low frequency clip to blend it together. At the end of the first minute I end the composition with another grain synthesis again by using clips as wave tables for the synthesis arguments to make the composition end some loud noise.

The invented instrument is nothing more than oscillating two sounds, oscillating the amplitude of one, adding a frequency oscillat and averaging them together. The sound file I used were originally wav files that I convered in Cool Edit except for the file that I got from the Csound chapter one. The intro clip I used is from public domain.

Instruments:

01 - Intro.aif

01 - clip.aif

02 - clip.aif

03 - clip.aif

beat.aif

sing.aif

Piano.aif

DataFlow of Instruments:

Dataflow

Orc/Sco File:

fun.orc fun.sco

MP3 Composition:

Composition

Refrences:

http://www.csounds.com/chapter1/index.html

and accompanying sound samples

Granular Synthesis(Hans Mikelson)

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