#240226: searching for g in d minor
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Dear friends!
So it really begins. With this post I'm officially starting a new chapter on my path of creation and publishing of art and digital. I'm excited and at the same time very scared (sshh, don't tell anyone). Before you ask, let me tell you: my membership project 'The Backstairs Tone' is in a phase of 'soft launch': a monthly subscription for a special access to the background process of production of music. I update weekly (ish), you can listen and comment. There's an 'I' and there's a 'WE'. Thank you to those who joined in recent days. More about it next week.
But, now to a little special story that's connected to this update's attachment/recording.
I have already written in one of the past updates (early access to algoforte05live) my exploration of computer-controlled piano is not yet quite over (hopefully). I continue to imagine what would the final chapter of this project be. I feel I wrote everything that is behind this exploration in the text for last chapter (both for last year's performance at Ljubljana New Music Forum and for recent release of that recording) and it's quite personal and I feel a lot of emotions about it all. And that's why I want to do it justice by finalizing it, gathering all the drafts and attempts and songs and scales and motifs and algorithms used and put it all together into coherent whole.
Perform it. Record it.
An "Algoforte 06 FINAL".
And move on.
I wonder if it's realistic for this to happen in 2024? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe slowly. Maybe in part.
Before I digress into all the other projects and priorities and lack of time, let me focus back on a little piece called "Searching for G in D minor" that is part of this update. The thing is that yesterday we - a small group of livecoders from Ljubljana and Maribor - performed some kind of group presentation and performance for the 20 years of global TOPLAP movement. Beautiful people organized the global non-stop stream over two days and we applied for an hour to present a slice from Slovenia. I have prepred our equipment for streaming at Emanat, Rob came from Maribor, Blaž and LukaF also. Amongst all the preparation of the stream I barely had half an hour to prepare my own code to perform from.
I decided to use (virtual) piano - Algoforte-ish setup, record the piano output back to SuperCollider and granulate it. I'm far from happy about the actual performance of mine (Rob was amazing and so were others as well and there were some problems at the mixer level - a lot of distortion), but today I dug deeper into the code and brought the state of it to a degree I'm quite happy about.
It's a slow ambiental piece. It's a bit longer so it establishes the atomosphere and sticks to it. I recorded it as screencast so you can see the code and some changes I'm making, if you want.
See video on pretok.tv PeerTube (the easiest click): https://vid.pretok.tv/w/hnfYwALWfVtKZEF99yBZ8w
Download/listen/stream: audio FLAC or MP3, or video MP4 below (or at https://luka.princic.studio/backstairs/archive/)
Thank you for your generous support, I hope next week treats you well, and I'll see you soon!