Temporal Sound and Light Composition Landscape no1-And The Heavens Cried

Can you explain us what "created from the temporal audio" means.

ULTRABRA
Can you explain us what "created from the temporal audio" means.

The Temporal is location field and vision recordings.
 
Peace

Ifn ya have ta deconstruct it...what good is it? It is what it was. See what I did there? I know I'm a fan of Ben's noodlins an all but at least his work forces you to DO something. Even if that is throw yor half drunk martini across the livin room. Acourse I woulda called this magnum opus "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors"...but then I'm a romantic at heart.

Nope...unfortunately I am a true Irishman...and, at least in the last twenty years, never drunk...though every one of my friends who've had the same amount as me of an imbibing evening can hardly stand up. But tonight...like most nights...I am just nursing a great Cabernet.

Jeff Evans
Granular synthesis is just incredible stuff.  In fact Ben got me into it really and I just love it.  You can take anything and I mean anything from live atmos or foley sound recordings to one single tabla hit or a single tibetan bell hit and create the most amazing sounds you will ever hear from any synthesiser.  So far removed from reality it is just hard to imagine.  Nothing comes close to granular synthesis.  It is not for everyone though. Normal sounds are not its thing.  It is wonderful for strange sound design stuff which this piece from Ben is.
 
Great to see granular inside Omnisphere now.  The two others to get into are New Sonic Arts 'Granite' and SoundGuru 'The Mangle'. (They are different from each other but wonderful though)
 
Ben uses a great Steinberg granular synth as well. (Padshop) I have not gone down the Padshop path because I am pretty inviolved with Granite and The Mangle but I am sure it is great as well.

Thanks Jeff :) I've tried over the years to keep experimenting...find a niche and all that.  Popular music is dead, and we need to find a way forward...this kind of works.
 
Peace :) 

Pretty cool Ben.

BenMMusTech

ULTRABRA
Can you explain us what "created from the temporal audio" means.

The Temporal is location field and vision recordings.
 

So you record some sounds and make audio from it ... what's the process?   You said something similar on your earlier Fountain piece :  "The sounds are all temporal ;) or filmed on location, and I use these to create the chords heard throughout the piece." - so you recorded the sounds of the fountain, and then used those sounds ... how do you use them?

To illustrate the amazing power of a granular synth have a look at this video.  This is just a single hit of a Tibetan bowl and nothing else.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFDg7X3dlfc
 
I have got Mangle as well and it is a lovely instrument for sure.  In the latest version of Mangle you can now stop the granular for a second and just listen to the original sound which is quite handy.  You can see by the waveform that there is the transient at the start and the rest is just the sustained part of the bowl.  I have done this myself and it quite amazing.
 
Any sound can be manipulated this way.  Even the sound of a footstep or the sea or anything literally.  Granulars can still be played from your keyboard too just like a normal synth.  So all this can be transposed up and down and played polyphonically too and then things start to get real complex too as you can imagine.
 
You can get very tuned sounds out of granulars as well as complex sound scapes.  They do require a little understanding.  Granite is also amazing as Padshop would be too.
 
Here is a Granite demo:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuN0Jezi2Kw
 
Audio is cut up into tiny bits called grains and they are only very small in time eg 10 ms to 50 ms or so. The grains are then manipulated/modulated in many different ways etc...  What is cool about a granular synth is its ability to produce such complex sounds that most normal synthesisers would not even come close to even when trying real hard.
 
A Granite intro by New Sonic Arts
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnKTiFVpBAo
 
 
 

emeraldsoul
I listened to it without watching the video, and enjoyed it, just kind of ambient mood with those darn crickets in the tall grass.
 
Nice stuff, really stretches the boundaries of what sound is/music is/songs are . . . your work is to conventional songs as Jackson Pollack's work is to something conventional like the Mona Lisa. I appreciate both, but it may not be everyone's cup of magic tea.
 
Feel free to use "Magic Tea" as your bandname.  :)
 
Thanks for the flashback!
 
-Tom

Thanks Tom.  Yes, as a part of my research I'm trying to re-invent the wheel so to speak..it's a combined visosonic form lol.
 
Peace