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All materials employed in this piece originate from a double-bass. Many sounds from every part of the instrument (e.g. nut, belly, string, bridge, tailpiece, etc.) were produced through tapping or rubbing with a bow or a wood stick. I then selected a few samples among them, the ones that I thought might not be readily associated with the instrument in order to keep a certain level of abstraction in the piece. The recorded samples and new sounds made from them through processing where used. I searched for gestural or spectral analogies between the sounds and attempted to connect them smoothly. I also tried to give them equal prominence in the work. For processing these samples, I programmed a flexible granulator as a VST plug-in with Max/MSP and Pluggo. This granulator allows to stretch samples up to 1000 times their original length and can be loaded as a plug-in on DAW software accepting MIDI control values for changing parameters. It was utilized for generating fast and synchronized transitions between processed and unprocessed sounds |
