State Machine Music, by Joe Paradiso

State Machine Music

by Joe Paradiso

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1.	LPC For Everyday Yoga 15:15	info	buy track
2.	Keep to the Shadows 09:37	info	buy track
3.	The High Road 08:49	info	buy track
4.	Tendrils 08:58	info	buy track
5.	A Sisyphean Sequence 06:02	info	buy track
6.	Markov Chain Puller 07:17	info	buy track
7.	Arcade of Nightmares 05:38	info	buy track
8.	Return of Sputnik 02:05	info	buy track
9.	Finding Joy in Gibberish 05:06	info	buy track

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One of my favorite pastimes with my custom synthesizer system is to make very complicated patches that produce a dense and varying autonomous sound. The system becomes a huge musical machine, with wires connected everywhere and lights flashing all over the place, while it drones out all kinds of strange sonic patterns. The sounds in these tracks were all produced in such a fashion; no human intervention occurred at any time, and they were recorded entirely live. The patches here were each finished within less than a day - typically in only several hours. I start with a very coarse sound process, then successively add layers until the synth rig sounds like this. These are among the earliest autonomous soundscapes that I recorded on my system, made between 1985 and 2000. They are for the most part much simpler, less subtle, and more cacophonous than the pieces that I made later. My speech module is the star feature in most of these patches - while I still use it frequently (it's very versatile), my later work tends more to keep it ambient and subdued. Here it's often front-and-center. More info on my synth system is at synth.media.mit.edu and paradiso.media.mit.edu/synth.html

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released January 1, 2002

Cover photo taken by Joe Paradiso in Geneva, Switzerland during the summer of 1992.

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Joe Paradiso Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joe Paradiso has been designing, building, and using his own music synthesizers and systems since 1975. Joe is a professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he has designed many kinds of electronic musical instruments and controllers that have been used in performance worldwide. He has composed synth patches for live soundscape performances at several public venues, including Ars Electronica 2004. ... more

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