Emit Experiments

02021-04-09 | Uncategorized | 9 comments

I used the little improvisation from last week to experiment with a new Ableton/Live pack called Inspired by Nature. The device called “Emit” is described like this:

Emit is a visual granular synthesizer that uses particles shooting across a spectrogram to show the grain of a sample being played, while vertical movements represent filtering and panning. Create more variables for your particles by adding walls for them to bounce off, and friction to slow them down. By using phase vocoder synthesis for playback, Emit allows particles to move across the sample at any speed without affecting pitch.

I fed the music into Emit and picked a short selection of the performance for it to work with. Everything you hear is guitar, the actual performance in the foreground and the processed particals behind that. It returns me to my notion of connecting and combining past and present that I first explored on the “Opium” tour. In 1996 Ancient Man was Ron Wagner playing tablas and dumbek. Future Man was Carl Coletti playing electronic Roland V-Drums, which he dubbed “the tupperware kit”.

There is something there worth pursuing.

9 Comments

  1. Y.

    It has that fine slow quality like incense smoke.

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    • ottmar

      Slow as incense smoke. I love that! I should make a video of incense smoke and pair it with music.

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      • Stephen Duros

        That would be very cool!

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      • Luz Rivera

        As someone who burns incense almost daily I would love a music video paired with such!

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  2. JaneParhamKatz

    It struck me exactly as you said – past and present. The background is the ancient past, the guitar performance the present. I saw a guitarist performing his current piece while overlooking an ancient, once great, city in ruins. Haunting! I think it is exciting.

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  3. Will

    Very nice! This is the start to a very cool and interesting album ;)

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  4. Stephen Duros

    Love this!

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  5. Carolynn

    I love it.

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  6. JaneParhamKatz

    You could do a video of the Anastasi ruins and cliff dwellings at Bandelier mixed with modern you playing the music of the present

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