Fun with Csound. When I started working with Csound I had no idea what I wanted to do for a composition so I decided to just have fun with it. By going over the examples from the Csound chapter one and looking at the Csound magazine I was able to conclude that Csound allowed you to change every aspect of sound and would make things very difficult to create a solid composition. So with this in mind I took my new found knowledge and play many scores until I found one that was loud and flowed with a unique sound.
The structure of the composition starts with the playing of the grain synthesis at followed by the sound of a frequency changing beat. I then add a low frequency clip to blend it together. At the end of the first minute I end the composition with another grain synthesis again by using clips as wave tables for the synthesis arguments to make the composition end some loud noise.
The invented instrument is nothing more than oscillating two sounds, oscillating the amplitude of one, adding a frequency oscillat and averaging them together. The sound file I used were originally wav files that I convered in Cool Edit except for the file that I got from the Csound chapter one. The intro clip I used is from public domain.
Instruments:
DataFlow of Instruments:
DataflowOrc/Sco File:
fun.orc fun.scoMP3 Composition:
http://www.csounds.com/chapter1/index.html
and accompanying sound samples
Granular Synthesis(Hans Mikelson)