Harmonic Series, Synthesis, pseudo-random childhood.

I was creating my own sounds on the computer, building the harmonics, playing with shaping pseudo-random generators. It’s what I had to do to get music and make instruments so I did it.

I was a kid. I didn’t know this was advanced stuff that was related to physics and stuff. Shaping randomness to suit my aesthetics made sense. I don’t know why it didn’t / doesn’t for everybody.

When MIDI came along, it was boring. Instruments came with. Played notes. I wanted to make my own and build it up because I was used to that.

Now I wouldn’t have the patience. But I did then. Saving these here because maybe some random FB searcher will find it.

Tie-in to Facebook :
There was a section about “uploading your music to Compuserve” which made me want a modem but in the early 80s, they were expensive and so was Compuserve]

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The very fine differences between a “squeaky” and a “scratchy” in an 8-bit wave form you are building from scratch out of randomness and harmonics was good for my hearing too. Being hard of hearing it compelled me to _really_ listen to subtleties.

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