mysterybear: Law of Octaves

Law of Octaves

Posted 12 August 2008, 13:29

Description

A third take on the idea in I first explored in Drift Dhikr, with a richer timbre and harmonic texture.

Duration: 9:03

Background & Technical Details

As I indicate above, this is my third attempt at expressing a rather simple idea: a simple chord, augmented by continuously-generated difference and summation tones, that glides from a starting consonance to an ending consonance via a long gradual glissando. The first piece used simple sine waves; the second piece used a form of FM synthesis. This one is back to plain old oscillators, but with some other refinements:

a more complex waveform, built from the first seven unique partials in the Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21)
a more complex chord — the original chord plus the indentical one tranposed to the just perfect fourth (4/3) in a lower octave
movement in space by panning from the center to both sides.

I like the results better than the two previous pieces, and hope that you do as well. I won’t get into an explication of the title, which you can discover for yourself if so inclined.

Copyright & Licensing

Files/Downloads

MP3 (21MB, 48K/16-bit, 320kpbs)
Csound project file (102KB)

Comments

That’s a nice track, although the ending seems… kinda classical?!? Like the website too; good inspiration for how to be composer 2.0 :)

— J. Simon van der Walt 16 August 2008, 12:40 #
Thanks for visiting, and glad you liked it. Yes, the ending is rather cadential, but that’s not such a terrible thing — and it is symmetrical with the beginning, which is what I was after!

— Dave Seidel 16 August 2008, 13:38 #
I like your use of combination tones in this piece and in works like Drift Dhikr II, so I’ve started experimenting with them as well.

— Michel Koppelaar 22 August 2008, 16:16 #
Thanks, Michel. I really like your piece, and hope that you continue working in this vein.

— Dave Seidel 22 August 2008, 17:03 #