continuing the thread, this is my personal account of names and usage within
the audio/visual realm
ars * stands for ambience recovery system, a name of a circuit in
terrence thomas' "sound synthesis" paperback that added what
he called "ambience" to a recording. sort of like reverb, but
not altogether. for my purposes, it is the
ambient/experimental side project of charles and myself from
body release. we first started as just "ar", then we found
this and thought it was fitting.
body release * body release, means to us as "releasing your body through the
music heard in your mind." an old band member, mike szewczyk,
came up with the name, and it sort of stuck. i don't
personally think it always fits all the time, but who knows.
enhanced * enhanced is my personal stuff. it is not just my music, but
also a personal tag for any visual modifications/creations.
i tend to think of it as me not directly creating
"everything," just kind of "enhancing" what pre-exists.
although, if you hear or see my work, it really doesn't tend
to look or sound like anything else before hand..by means of
type/image manipulation and sound/sequence manipulation.
my theory in most everything is usually involving the combination of one piece
of data/material and another. i frequently experiment converting video to audio
signals, audio to video, back and forth loops, as well as gate to cv, cv to
gate, audio to cv, cv to audio, audio to gate, gate to audio, etc. and in the
macintosh arena, i also take data files to open them up as raw image files, and
then i can also convert images to IFF files for sample playback on the mac. i
i start with a series of simple loops (audio) and then see how i can convert
those loops into different forms of data, etc. and generate either new sounds,
or different sequences by using the exploration of chance and sheer luck. i
guess that is how i program my 303. :]
as for song titles, i usually title them with an assortment of consanants and
vowels, with punctuation that makes a visually pleasing word. this word is a
product of what i get from my first impress of a song. i used to just make
lists and lists of "possible" song titles, and i felt that this was too
preformatted and not in conjunction with the music that was being made. which,
coincidentally, was usually under the influence of the age-old sleep
deprivation, and i think that i excel best in both visual and aural experiments
when i am close to becoming really sleepy.
good night. see you.
sines
--
---- todd sines
---- tsines@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu / analogue@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
---- 384 e 17th ave columbus, oh 43201 * 614 299 9529 vm 614 523 7762
---- analogue heaven * ars * body release * elemental * enhanced * sense/net