jamuary 29, 2025

OK. We’re back. Today I had two goals: further explore Fluss, the granular effect and processor, and allow it to guide me to more sounds. I like where I was led:

Fluss took a sample, like yesterday, and I spent some time playing with the timeline, the density and spray, and the two XY grids: one that controls the filter and scan speed, the other that controls the octave and pitch of the three granularizers.

Eventually I landed on a nice spot, something that moved on its own but had a slight motif to it. The original sample was a piano, and Fluss bit into the transients of it nicely, not quite floating away entirely.

I wanted to wrangle it more, though, so I put together a very simple Fugue Machine line and let it run wild on a piano and choir. The Fugue Machine midi only exists over a single bar, so, no matter what speed I ran the playheads, the same lines bubbled up pretty frequently.

In practice, it created a metronomic(a) feel, a steady pulse pulling on the loose threads of Fluss’ granular uncertainties. I played Fluss live a bit, to vary up the filter cutoff, and did something similar with Rymdigare, which chewed up the choir for some additional crunchiness.

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