Custom Digital Audio Software For Performance Of Digital Sound

Machine For Breathing is custom generative audio software for noise music. Using a vinyl record (or CD player) as a sound source the software under the control of the performer continually extracts small micro samples from this audio-input and builds up its own layer upon layer of looped textures that last between 5 and 30 seconds. These textures slowly evolve into dense noise and processes select parts of this layer texture and plays them with variation and pitchshifts. Other processes emulate stuck compact disk sounds by extracting longer samples from the audio input and looping them. Several of these could be active in parallel enabling a rythmic synchronisation of juttering sounds. Other processes including pitch shifting of the sound input, that also included definable tragectories of pitch shifting levels over time, and extracting waveforms from the built up layers, to make intense electronic noise tones, which could be passed through several controllable filters and comb filters. Finally some generative Midi based music was included to end the noise, taking it to a gentle melodic ending.

This machine was used for 2 performances at parties in December 2005. One in Cirencester and one on a boat on the Thames in London.