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You can do so using hardware (if you have got the money to buy all the modules, which appear in this book), or software. You´ll be able to reproduce every single example and every single sonic experiment, which you´re going to meet on these pages.

In the following chapter 1 I´m going to talk about the different kinds of engines, which keep our modular generative music system going.Īnd don´t worry: You´ll be able to reproduce everything, that is described in this book. “Permanently changing” is movement, and every moving system needs a motor, an engine that drives it, that keeps the system going on moving. In modular synthesis these “rules” are our patches, and these patches are what this book is about. The producing – playing – machine may be a computer, a modular synthesiser or any other kind of gear, which is able to produce audible events and able to accept and follow certain rules or algorithms. Generative music is that kind of music, which is created – normally played - by any kind of analogue or digital machinery, while permanently changing in rhythm or pitch or timbre or number of voices etc.

The term “Generative Music” is a quite new one, and the musician, composer and sound designer Brian Eno is said to have alerted a broader audience to this term. The matter you have been working on needs a systematic approach.Ī systematic introduction to making generative music with modular synthesisers. OK – it´s fun most of the times, but it could be more than that. You come upon something nice – sometimes. It´s not what you had expected it to be, it´s not how you had expected it to be. You see and hear somebody doing something interesting, something beautiful, something you would like to do too.

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Complex Cycles (and the combination of both) 10Ĭhapter 1.2: Other Devices Generating Regular Cycles 59Ĭhapter 1.2.3: Shift Registers With Feedback 65Ĭhapter 1.2.5: The Turing Machine – Part 1 74Ĭhapter 1.3: Randomness, Probability and Stochastic 79Ĭhapter 1.3.3: A Short Glimpse at the Turing Machine And at Shift Registers Again 92Ĭhapter 1.3.4: Perfect Pseudo Randomness: Gray Code Modules 93Ĭhapter 1.3.5: Imperfect Pseudo Randomness: Euclidean Sequencers 99Ĭhapter 1.3.6: Random Trigger (Percussion) Sequencers with Different Amounts of Randomness 102Ĭhapter 1.3.8: Probability Gates (Random Clocked Gates) 108Ĭhapter 2: What to Modulate And to Trigger 115Ĭhapter 3: Compositional Aspects of Generative Music 165Ĭhapter 3.1: General Thoughts, Strategies And Basic Compositional Decisions 166Ĭhapter 3.2: Basic Compositional Techniques 177Ĭhapter 3.2.2: Repeating, Modifying and Inverting Relations 180Ĭhapter 3.2.3: Basic but Exclusively Generative Techniques 183Ĭhapter 3.3: Specific Compositional Techniques 190Ĭhapter 3.4: Certain Patch Techniques And Examples 197Ĭhapter 3.4.1: Switching Voices and Larger Parts of the Patch 197Ĭhapter 3.4.2: Sculpture Randomness and Setting Borders 200Ĭhapter 3.4.3: Jumping between certain BPM and Inverting Pitch Lines 200Ĭhapter 3.4.4: Mixing Stable and Random Elements 205Ĭhapter 4: Some Building Blocks of Generative Patching 207Ĭhapter 4.1: The Instrumentation of Envelopes 207Ĭhapter 5: Certain Modules with Generative Potential 233Ĭhapter 5.4: Mutable Instruments “Stages” 250Ĭhapter 5.5: Mutable Instruments “Grids” 255Ĭhapter 5.7: Mutable Instruments “Marbles” 262Ĭhapter 5.9: 4ms “Spectral Multiband Resonator” 285Ĭhapter 5.10: Mutable Instruments “Clouds” 290Īppendix A: Feedback Graphs (only 1 LFO) 299 You´ll find more about the book at my website atĪnd here is the content followed by a quotation of the complete first chapter:Ĭontent Chapter 0: About This Course And Some Words About What Generative Music Is 6Ĭhapter 1: Real Randomness vs. Together with my new e-book (323 pages, 202 graphics) there come 118 synth patches and 108 embedded videos of a total length of 14 hours and 27 minutes. I wrote my new e-book 'A Systematic Introduction to Making Generative Music With Modular Synths' to prevent you from having to jump here and there on the web, learning a bit here, getting a bit of insights there - and losing orientation most of the times.