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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Arc.hive@tekspost.no
Subject: Real-time Inverse Dynamics from Decades Ago
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 15:46:58 -0500 (EST)
Real-time Inverse Dynamics from Decades Ago http://www.alansondheim.org/esprock.png http://www.alansondheim.org/esprock.mp3 From an ESP album, T'Other Little Tune, I recorded with my group in 1969. Rock (original title) uses a rock drummer fed (along with other instruments) through a Mood synthesizer; the signal was split - one part going into the main input of a voltage- controlled amplifier, and the other inverting and then going into the control input of the same. The louder the sound, the more diminished. Today it would be easy to use a refined analog VCA; since I don't have access to one, I work with inverted dynamis after the fact with the Dynamics Processing effect in Audition. (If someone wants to donate an analog synth, I'd be glad to take it off hir hands!) Rock was designed, by the way, as critique; everything is clumsy, awkward, and the siren at the end - a form of coverup - brings the whole thing to a halt. ESP 1082, T'Other Little Tune rereleased 1993 Album Credits Coordinator [Co-ordination], Synthesizer [Moog], Piano [Prepared], Trombone, Idiophone [Jaltarang], Guitar [Hawaiian], Strings [Dilruba], Guitar [Classical], Soprano Saxophone, Recorder [Bass], Marimba, Melodeon, Composed By Alan Sondheim Drums, Tabla, Synthesizer [Moog] Joel Zabor (now Rafi Zabor) Flute, Piccolo Flute, Synthesizer [Moog] Gregert Johnson Piano, Voice June Sondheim Tenor Saxophone John Emigh (tracks: 2, 4) Trumpet Paul Phillips (2) Notes Recorded in May 1968. Track 4 is Rock
