RE: TheBrokenMusicBox: an online looping experiment

["Timothy Mungenast" <mungenast@earthlink.net>]

My daughter had a music box that was broken in a fascinating way: it played
the whole song in 1 second, like a "blipvert." Wish I could find that 
thing!
Jack-in-the-boxes have a wonderful timbre, too, different from music boxes.
More like a kalimba.
Rick, I will check out your creation on Monday when I don't have to worry
about waking anybody up. 
I have a feeling I'm in for a treat.
~Tim


> [Original Message]
> From: loop.pool <looppool@cruzio.com>
> To: LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting) <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 12/16/2005 6:48:58 AM
> Subject: TheBrokenMusicBox: an online looping experiment
>
> I discovered a very cool free sample site last night
> http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
> run coincidentally by my friend Bram who is one of the freeware plugin 
> developers at the marvelous SmartElectronix.com collective.
>
> One of the interesting things about the site is that you can preview the 
> free samples there by either triggering them as a one shot or
> by hitting a loop button and then triggering them as a continuous loop.
>
> I was searching for toy piano, music box,  old wheezy organ and out of
tune 
> piano samples because, hey,  I'm weird
> and so I found a sample pack of Toy Music Box samples.
>
> Much to my delight I discovered that I could improv on the site by
turning 
> the loops of the individual Music Box notes on and off.
> I also discovered that I could run as many loops as I felt like it in
real 
> time.
>
> So the tune is in the spirit of the real time looping (in this case using
my 
> mouse and my computer only)
>
> It's called  "The Broken Music Box" and if you are curious,  below is 
>the 
> process I used to improvised the piece.
> It's free to download and hear at   www.looppool.info/TheBrokenMusicBox/
>
> I hope you like it.
>
> **************
>
> Here's a description of my unconventional process:
>
> I used the preview looping capabilties of the FREESOUND site to do an
improv 
> with all of the toy music box samples...............looping and turning
on 
> and off the various samples, running simultaneously............I 
>recorded 
> this improv in real time into Sound Forge.
>
> Then I took that improv and played it back in real time as I used the
mouse 
> to
> grab the moving cursor and manipulate it in ways that screwed up the 
> computer
> (I even crashed it with the blue screen of death once...........I'm 
>never 
> even seen a blue
> screen as long as I've run Win XP.............lol).
>
> I love this technique for confusing the computer while playing back in
Sound 
> Forge.
>
> all of this I recorded into Cool Edit Pro (because Sound Forge won't
allow 
> multiple instances
> to run simultaneously.
>
> I took the results and then basically just slashed sections out of it
until 
> I like the final result..................then I threw it into Fruity
Loops 
> and played with speed of play back and triggering heavily verbed
instances 
> of the tracks: sometimes synchonously, sometimes not.
>
> Next, I tried to think of what Ravel would do to the piece if he were
alive 
> today and I wrote the String parts in Fruity Loops.
>
> Everything I did with a mouse and the computer.
>
> It's sort of neo classical/glitch music and is pretty outside of the 
> mainstream but I'm really happy with it.