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Generative music bidule1/4/2023 ![]() ![]() I wouldn't mind if everyone had to use the same three tools to make music because ultimately it’s down to your imagination. Artists such as Brian Eno, Keith Fullerton Whitman and Autechre have successfully managed to strike a balance between order and chaos by creating systems that generate sounds but that can be fine-tuned to deliver something sonically interesting and at times very beautiful. What makes autonomy in creative technology interesting is the marriage of automated tasks and unpredictability. In this way the system evolves and this process of evolution is what can be used to generate something we might find pleasing or interesting or both. What causes these changes might be part of their behaviour or the consequence of an interaction with other elements in the system. In a visual program, for example, facets of these elements might change over time, such as their position, colour or distance from each other. In programming an autonomous system is something where different elements interact without external intervention by performing actions which are part of their own behaviour. In order to create generative music in Reason we first need to get to grips with the basic principles of an autonomous system. I also plan to release a series of generative tracks as free and open source downloads replete with notes and rendered audio.Ĭomments are welcome and I will do my best to answer any questions. I will continue to write more pieces beyond this series and should I find any more techniques or tools that can take this thinking further I will be sure to blog about them. ![]() More experienced users might want to skim read this part and await Part 2. Part 1 introduces CV/Gate and the basic arrangements which allow us to create rhythms without the use of any sequencers. The series starts in baby steps so that newcomers to Reason don’t get confused. I have provided Reason files (version 6.5.1) where possible so that you can follow the process easily and develop your own arrangements using them as templates. ![]() I will mainly focus on the generation and arrangement of sound purely using CV/gate, employing Reason as a kind of modular synthesizer.Įxpect some tips and tricks that I have learned over the years, which can be applied to other production styles and which might spark a new idea for combining outputs and devices. In this blog series I aim to inspire users of any level by explaining the techniques used to create generative music in Reason. ![]()
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