Re: [-empyre-] microsounders / software

["Trace Reddell" <treddell@du.edu>]

Hi Nemo:

Like Glenn, I got most of my software via databaseaudio.

A text-cut-up generator I like is called Cut'n'Mix. For the "Machinery for
Dreaming" piece, I used this program to generate cut-ups of the original De
Quincey text; these cut-ups were used to create controller information
(pitch, velocity, and modulation).

For txt-to-midi conversion, I've been working with TransMid-1. This program
is horribly documented (and now it looks like the developer's site has
disappeared completely), so I'm still trying to dissect some aspects of what
it's doing with the text information. I used this for "Machinery for
Dreaming" and my contribution to The Audible Still-Life. I've also worked
some with "GoMinimal," though it's a bit buggy and also poorly documented.
For some key passages of text, I worked with my own schematic for applying
numerical values to letters, words, phrases, and sentences and used this for
score; key words like "opium" thus become a micro-melodic element.

I've also worked some with audiopaint, using scans of book pages as source
material. And I've performed with SoundPlant (a sampler using the qwery
keyboard), loading up my own set of samples, then typing passages of text to
generate sequences.

Thanks,
-=Trace