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Song Description
You lie peacefully in your soft bed, listening to the soothing sound of Brahms Lullaby, played by your midget butler's shiny new violin.
Suddenly, the room disappears, and you find yourself in a club downtown... and there's a happy little chipmunk, singing you a sweet sweet lullaby.
"Hello, happy little fella! You're pretty good with a conch shell!"
Then, the music changes... something is coming, oh no.... OH NO!!! It's.........
Sadly, that is all you remember, as you are ripped from your slumber by the alarm you forgot to turn off last night.
Methods
The original inspiration for this piece was my daughter's mobile, which nightly plays this lullaby, though admittedly it is not a midget with a violin.
The Lullaby was written directly from the sheet music referenced below note by note for the Violin, and then copied with adjusted timing for the chipmunk. This process was greatly aided by the cpspch function which allows specifying tones by octave/semitone instead of by frequency
The violin is enveloped in a simple linen function, and all samples are displaced left or right for some depth in the sound-scape.
The distortion of the violin into the dream-scape is achieved with a granule function fed by a sine wave oscillator affecting the gap between grains
What???
My instrument, appropriately named "What???" is assembled as follows:
