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Author: Alfie Wall

  • Primary research in Discord

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    I wanted to collect primary research from the community around ping music. I posted in the Mumdance Discord, explaining that I was researching ping music as a compositional framework, and asked two questions: what do people think ping music is, and what role did they play in its development? Posting felt intimidating because the server…

  • Boing Music Reflections

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    Working on a track attempting to follow my ‘boing’ framework taught me that the sound I was aiming for emerges more from experimentation than from a fixed plan. When I manipulated parameters in the synthesiser operator without trying to control the outcome, I started finding timbres that matched the “boing” aesthetic. This was the main…

  • Boing Music

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    und, called ‘boing music’  The “boing music” framework is elastic sounds in a spacious void, focusig on timbre, exponential rhythms, pitch modulation, and single instances of synthesis playing multiple compositional roles (e.g. drums being composed of one instance of operator, heavily modulated and processed) I’m inspired by Mumdance and Logos’ Ping and Weightless frameworks and…

  • Key insights from the articles

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    Audio Paper Plan Learn about Audio Papers: https://seismograf.org/fokus/fluid-sounds/audio_paper_manifesto https://intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/934/info Structure/script plan Introduction I am going to explore xyz Pose question Why is discord a necessary space for post genre musicians? What is post genre? A theme that I’ve noticed when digging into the origins of music I’m a fan of (Ping Music, Iglooghost, pc music)…

  • Bits to read and research:

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    Ping research reading list https://djmag.com/reviews/va-ping-volume-one https://www.mumdance.com https://www.beatportal.com/articles/1053512-different-circles-returns-with-ping-volume-one-a-new-chapter-from-mumdance-and-logos?utm_source=chatgpt.com Post Genre https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/article/abs/is-the-post-in-postidentity-the-post-in-postgenre/F643B340B1C4769C3096FD8FBE145615 https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1209400/FULLTEXT02.pdf Discord Post genre Social media The fragmentation of the public sphere Post‐Internet Music: Negotiating Queer Identity in the Digital Era (Lucia Clara Affaticati, 2024) https://www.waterandmusic.com/why-so-many-music-producers-are-starting-their-own-discord-communities ‘Of all possible community platforms out there, why Discord?’ ‘The chat service’s real-time communication capabilities offer a much sought-after…

  • Puredata 6

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    I spent some time using number boxes and int objects to store numbers. You can feed them into +, –, %, select, whatever you need. They hold the value and let you build counters, sequencers, or trigger different things depending on what number is stored. I hooked a counter into a select object to cycle…

  • Puredata 5

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    Today I messed around with the [random] object. It spits out a number between 0 and whatever number you give it minus 1. Combine it with + and select and you can make something pick between multiple things. I used it to choose between samples in my patch, so every time I bang a button…

  • Puredata 4

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    Today I learned about [open( ] and [readsf~] in Pure Data. [open( ] is how you tell Pd where your audio file is. You send it a message with the file path, and it loads that file into [readsf~]. Nothing will play until you do this step first. I got pretty confused for a while…

  • Puredata practice 3

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    Today I learned how to make basic sequencer boxes using the select object in Pure Data. It’s basically a way of routing numbers: you send it an integer, and when that number matches one of its arguments, it spits out a bang. It makes step-based sequencing pretty easy once you see it working. I tried…

  • I like Mark Fell

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    I’ve been really obsessed Mark Fell’s structure and synthesis. it’s made me think about how I approach electronic music and digital tools in different ways. Fell treats systems kind of like organisms that have their own internal tendencies and limitations, rather than robotic machines. I find that perspective comforting, especially as someone who often struggles…