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Feedback by SmokeyVW [Email]
Genre: Experimental

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Uploaded: Sep 11, 2007 - 05:27:06 AM
Last Updated: Sep 13, 2008 - 02:06:47 PM
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album: After
track 1: 4:02 Feedback
track 2: 5:12 Breathing
track 3: 7:12 Marching Through The Visible Man
track 4: 3:52 Cleft Synaptic
track 5: 5:08 Sippin' From The Big Dipper
track 6: 5:08 Ula Hemla
track 7: 2:54 Yaa Yaya Yeya Yeyeah!
track 8: 3:03 Rolling Down
track 9: 5:29 Piano
track 10: 4:07 Lucky
track 11: 7:34 How Ah Ya
track 12: 5:07 Smokey's Embers
...more albums...

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after

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In cybernetics and control theory, feedback is a process whereby some proportion of the output signal of a system is passed (fed back) to the input. This is often used to control the dynamic behavior of the system. Examples of feedback can be found in most complex systems, such as engineering, architecture, economics, and biology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback

Therein lies Everyman's Power.

It's too easy to forget.

Don't forget.
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feedback is your friend &mdash 09/11/07 - 02:18:45 PM
this is one of my favorites that you have done. can't wait to go home and listen to this through real speakers.

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. &mdash 09/24/07 - 07:28:18 PM
hmmm... guess this blew out your speakers. sorry. :-)

thanks

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Nice. &mdash 09/11/07 - 10:45:49 PM
Never thought I'd sit back and enjoy some feedback, but you made it enjoyable. lol

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. &mdash 09/24/07 - 07:30:09 PM
hi

thanks for your valuable feedback!

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BEAUTIFUL EXPRESSION...... &mdash 09/11/07 - 11:21:15 PM
Yes, too easy to forget........and so vital:)* I love this style!! :D)*

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. &mdash 09/24/07 - 07:32:26 PM
feedback is life. life is feedback...

thanks for listening

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No matter what form... &mdash 09/12/07 - 07:50:18 PM
...your music takes, even or maybe especially, the forms without words, you always have something to say...

Ed

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. &mdash 09/24/07 - 07:36:15 PM
i spent a bit of time crafting that feedback sound... it was meant to say something about 9/11 somehow. not sure if it is a remembrance of that day, or a roll up lots of images from then all the way up to now. maybe both?

thanks

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Music of the spheres &mdash 09/14/07 - 05:34:02 PM
Great piece Smokey - and thanks for the definition. I love the way this evolves and grows and recedes/reseeds to a pure wave that then grows micro tones before resolving in chordal heaven. Beautiful.

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. &mdash 09/14/07 - 06:55:49 PM
yes.

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. &mdash 09/24/07 - 08:02:56 PM
perhaps i need to elaborate on that!

good ear, man.

the feedback sound itself goes through a number of phases. i wrote a little program to crossfade swells of sinewaves, then used GarageBand to add distortion and the other instruments.

the various synths in the opening fade away to reveal just the raw "feedback" sounds in the middle section.

there are 300 individual sinewave swells, their duration vary randomly from 3 to 33 seconds each. they all start at random times.

all swells that start before the first 60 seconds are randomly picked from the normal 12-tone scale.
swells from 60 to 90 are randomly picked harmonics of 27.5 Hz.
swells from 90 to 120 are randomly picked harmonics of 110 Hz.
swells from 120 to 150 are randomly picked harmonics of 220 Hz.
swells from 150 to 165 are randomly picked harmonics of 330 Hz.
swells from 165 to 180 are randomly picked harmonics of 440 Hz.

because swells last up to 33 seconds, they overlap from one time range to the next. the 12-tone pitches collide horribly/wonderfully with the 27.5 Hz harmonics. over time, the harmonic basis evolves into a just-tuned A major chord.

that's where the smooth ending comes from.

i added the vocal synth at the very end to give it humanistic ending.

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Electronica &mdash 09/16/07 - 07:30:51 PM
Very reminiscent of early electronic music. Maybe even a flash of "no pussyfooting" by fripp and eno.

Thanks
Bill

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. &mdash 09/24/07 - 08:07:56 PM
yes, i was going for that raw electronic feedback sound, although i cheated by using a computer to compute all the waveforms, rather than spend days trying to record enough real guitar/mic feedback to blend together on tape.

i admire what Fripp and Eno did.

thanks for listening!


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Ha ha... &mdash 09/19/07 - 01:00:20 AM
A lot of my favorite tunes of my youth were laden with feedback! A buddy of mine used to say: "If it starts with a screech, Mike likes it..." Very well done Bill. Intelligent and evocative use of feedback. Hendrix looks down from the astral world and smiles...

Be well!

http://www.macjams.com/song/35310

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. &mdash 09/24/07 - 08:10:11 PM
Yikes, i hope Jimi doesn't see that explanation a few posts up. no guitar was used. not even a stompbox.

thanks

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