[PD] Music created in Pure Data

[Phil Stone]

Nice!  I enjoyed it without thinking about the math, then I enjoyed it 
knowing what was behind it, too.

Phil Stone


David Powers wrote:
> PiData, by Cyborg K aka David A. Powers.  All synthesis and sequencing
> was done by a single Pure Data patch, rendered in a single take, then
> normalized in an external sound editor. More complex synthesis and fx
> were done with the aid of the Pure Data [vst~] object. The custom
> [getpi] abstraction was used to output n digits of the first 10,000
> digits of Pi at a time: all variable parameters, whether harmonic,
> rhythmic, or synthetic were driven by instances of the [getpi]
> abstraction. Overall rhythmic structure was based on the fibonacci
> sequence: 8 + 13 + 21 + 34 + 21 + 13 + 8 + 34 + 21 + 13 + 8 = 194
> seconds = 3:14. The piece took about 15-20 hours to complete,
> including building abstractions from scratch within Pure Data.
>
> Link:
> http://www.cyborgk.com/audio/cyborgk-pi_data.mp3
>
> *PS. This is the first time I have composed an entire piece in the
> Pure Data environment...
>
> ~David
>
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