poetix

this time for sure

Exaptation

This is the sort of thing that Buzz is especially good at:

This is something it’s quite coincidentally very handy for. The basic procedure is as follows:

  • Devise some minimal chord progression or repeating sequence that can be layered over itself at various pitches and tempos.
  • Get an instrument, or bank of instruments, to play it into some signal chain.
  • Blur, distort, detune and modulate it in lots of different ways at once.
  • Put the resulting noises back together in a mixer and run everything through a multiband compressor / limiter so that things cause other things in the same frequency range to duck and wobble.
  • Spend ages tweaking it until it sits just on the threshold of harmoniousness.
  • Attempt, as an afterthought, some basic sequencing of the add parts / remove parts variety, so you have some excuse for repeating essentially the same sound for four and a half minutes.

Anyway, that’s how it’s done. It’s not proper music really, but it keeps me amused.