Sine-wave clusters in Csound, .csd included — from a compilation where every sound is a sine wave

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Posting on behalf of hitobito label (Japan), not as the author. We just released a compilation with one rule: every sound must be made from sine waves. One of the nine tracks, “Sigma -SIne” by Tetsuya Miwa, is sine-wave clusters generated in Csound, and the author submitted the .csd along with the track, so it ships with the album as a bonus file. (Bandcamp does not accept the .csd extension, so it is uploaded as a .txt; rename it to .csd to run.)

The rest of the album was made with Pure Data, Renoise, SuperCollider, a hand-played sampler and more, so it doubles as a small survey of how different tools answer the same constraint. Name your price (0 is fine), Creative Commons.

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Thanks for sharing. Nice concept, just listening now to Tetsuya Miwa’s piece. It’s very nice. Definitely one I will share with my students :slight_smile:

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Thank you, glad you’re enjoying it! I’ll pass this on to Tetsuya Miwa.

For your students: the full source is in the album’s bonus files as Sigma-Sine.txt (rename it to .csd to run). It’s only about 2 KB, so it should be easy to read through.

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Nice, just looking over the source now. It’s very elegant. :slight_smile:

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Hi Rory,
Thank you for liking my work! I’m not sure if this code is truly elegant, but since it’s simple and versatile, I think it serves as a good sample for your students :grinning_face: