Airport Column

MMI

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Description

A quasi-generative track. I played a bunch of things into Live loops and then let it decide the order to play them back.

The title is a little fun with Eno and Reilly.

Photo comes from flickr.com user riacale:

http://flickr.com/photos/riacale/1064010465/

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Song Stats

Hits: 490
Comments: 7
Fans: 3
Plays: 25
Downloads: 34
Votes: 2
Uploaded: Feb 28, 2008 - 02:10:17 AM
Last Updated: Feb 28, 2008 - 02:10:17 AM Last Played: Oct 12, 2008 - 01:49:19 PM

Song License

Creative Commons License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Song Actions

Hardware:

MBP 17

Software:

Live 7

Comments

dirigent	dirigent said 637 days ago (February 28th, 2008)
	Airport Column wonderful sounds in this experimental aleatorik-track. Everything works very well and is very nicely mixed. Enjoyed it :-) Check out my latest song called Autumn

ic42

ic42 said 636 days ago (February 28th, 2008)

it is aural symmetry
it is pleasant to enjoy the repeated symmetry in the echos of music, and the repeated symmetry in the photograph. aligning the echo to the tempo is appreciated here, and adds to the rhythm and harmony. a synthesizer pad in the background is appropriately soft. it wraps the harsher plucked string in a velvet chord blanket. LiveLoops is unknown, and must be researched. it could become another tool for experimenting. thank you for the sweet lullaby. it calms these frayed synapses. 0x0

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SinJimMusic	SinJimMusic said 636 days ago (February 28th, 2008)
	Airport Column This is a really sweet ambient track. I could see this in the background of a scene where one is lost in emotion amidst the massive crowd of people in an airport terminal. Great job, really love this one. Thanks for sharing! Check out my latest song called - When the Smoke Clears -

MIRx	MIRx said 636 days ago (February 29th, 2008)
	Eno's voice over this wouldn't really be alien. A truly ambient track, delicate, not at all intruding, yet so pleasant to listen to, if you feel like. Even though I can't fully understand your explanation on how it has been done (LOL), I would say the experiment reached a full success. Beautifl work :) Check out my latest song called The Car Tune Cartoon

MMI

MMI said 635 days ago (February 29th, 2008)

Ableton Live
Live offers a unique way to work. Imagine a spreadsheet. Each column is an intrument or track. Instead of putting numbers or formulae into each cell you put music clips. Each of these clips can (and typically do) loop. You click on these clips to play (launch) them.

No imagine further that you can tell each of these clips to do something after some number of bars. That something might be continue playing, stopping or launching another clip. Each clip can "choose" between two such actions and you can attach odds, allowing you to set a clip to repeat 50% of the time and play the next loop the other 50% of the time.

So basically what I do is record some harmonically compatible loops and let the computer decide the order of play. So it's not generative music in the sense that the notes were selected and played by algorithm; instead the sequencing of the clips was (thus the structure of the piece). Thus "quasi-generative".

Of course, having said all this, I just looked up generative music on wikipedia and I suppose the definition for the "Creative/procedural" sub-category is loose enough that this piece qualifies...

Check out my latest song called We Will See

Heightened	Heightened said 619 days ago (March 17th, 2008)
	One of the best ambient I have ever heard! Pure joy to listen to! Check out my latest song called A Journey Through Starburst Galaxy M82

MMI	MMI said 615 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
	Wow I'm stunned. Thank you. Check out my latest song called We Will See

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Artist Info

Raised in the harsh cold of the Canadian South, MMI came out of hibernation and has since been foisting his musical onanism on an unsuspecting public. ... [see more]

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Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise.

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