Good morning, good day, or good evening. This is my first post for this project and I would just like to do a few introductions: what I intend to create, how I will go about creating it and some of the steps along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end of this project I would like to have a pleasant piece of music, written, recorded, mixed, and exported. Along with this musical piece I will have a visual or visualization that is custom made to accompany the piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tools I will be using are a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), I have access to and experience with both Bitwig Studio<\/a> and Ableton Live<\/a>, numerous virtual instruments and plugins within said DAW. For the visuals I will be using a combination of generated components and possibly some filmed footage, either way I will be using DaVinci Resolve<\/a> to edit my visual component, this is a great (and free) nonlinear editor for video. To generate visuals I will be experimenting with P5.js<\/a>, a library created for JavaScript designed for creating and manipulating images or visuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In terms of techniques, I am very intrigued by some of the techniques used by Brian Eno (the artist credited with coining the term ‘Ambient Music’), specifically his use of asynchronous looping tape machines<\/a>, this should be easy to replicate and experiment with digitally. Visually I am quite intrigued by the idea of integrating some of the systems exemplified in Daniel Shiffman’s book ‘The Nature of Code<\/a>‘. These tutorials and example projects demonstrate beautiful ways of replicating apparently natural motion within a programmatic environment. I believe this can be linked to the software messages used for communicating with virtual instruments to great effect. One final technique to mention is that of Motion Extraction<\/a> (embedded below), a video editing technique demonstrated by the Youtuber\/film maker Posy. I am not currently sure if I will try the technique myself but I do find it compelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n