[Csnd] The Ophanim Cycles

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Hi all,

As it is Bandcamp Friday, I have made my piece The Ophanim Cycles available on a pay-as-you-wish basis for the weekend. This from December 2020, and is made with Csound, modular synth, and various pedals. It is a long piece, a bit over 3 hours, in sections.

Please feel free to check it out. I encourage you to download it for free, if you’re interested.

https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/album/the-ophanim-cycles

  • Dave

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I always look forward to a Mysterybear release!

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Thanks, Aaron!

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I remember hearing this I think from 2020. I don’t I ever got through the whole thing, but I plan to digest in chunks. Listening to track 1 now.

I am struck by the sometime dark beauty of the various hexany subset JI sonorities. They have a kind of “consonant dissonance” and “floaty” quality. And often, the images it conjures for me are something like a post-apocalypse civilization. I have an unreleased track I call “City of Embers” that intersects sonically with this.

What is the base oscillator type you use here?

Great stuff, I shared with the tuning-discuss mailing list for untwelve.org, too.

-AKJ

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Whoops, I forgot to answer this! Sorry, Aaron.

The base oscillator (Csound) is scanu/scanx. Then the Csound output gets processed by a bunch of modular synth stuff and pedals, finally going throuhg three sound-on-sound loopers in series. The Csound code itself is monophonic. You can see all the code, as well as patch diagrams for the entire system, here: https://github.com/DaveSeidel/music-src/tree/master/ophanim-cycles

  • Dave
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Nice, thanks for the info!