Csound Piece with a Banjo

[Joseph Sanger]

Hi there list,

I have just posted an mp3 on my myspace site which uses Csound in a
small way and wanted to share it. It's not particularly highbrow but you
might find it amusing, it's a rather poignant duet for Banjo and
Theremin. I modelled the theremin in Csound (not complicated) and played
it with a MIDI keyboard, recording it live into Ardour via Jack, so no
Csound score exists.

The piece is called "Poor Little Robot"

www.myspace.com/josephsanger

Comments are welcome of course!

Thanks,

Joe
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[Eamon Brady-2]

Hi Joe,

Thats really cool. Your theremin instrument sounds excellent.  I've
recently been trying to build a theremin using the wii controller, max
and csound and while its working it sounds terrible. I'd love to see
your orchestra for this if that was possible??

Top Stuff,

Eamon

On 4/22/07, Joseph Sanger <joseph.sanger@...> wrote:

> Hi there list,
>
> I have just posted an mp3 on my myspace site which uses Csound in a
> small way and wanted to share it. It's not particularly highbrow but you
> might find it amusing, it's a rather poignant duet for Banjo and
> Theremin. I modelled the theremin in Csound (not complicated) and played
> it with a MIDI keyboard, recording it live into Ardour via Jack, so no
> Csound score exists.
>
> The piece is called "Poor Little Robot"
>
> www.myspace.com/josephsanger
>
> Comments are welcome of course!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
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[Chuckk Hubbard]

Very nice.  The instrumentation works great with the simple theme,
very straightforward and catchy.
I've been toying with the idea of running Csound and Pure Data on a
laptop, with a small knobs/faders MIDI controller and my electric
banjo both running into the laptop, and all three hanging from my body
while I pick, turn knobs, and code.  Unfortunately I am on crutches
with a broken metatarsal, so it's a ways off, but it's coming.

-Chuckk


On 4/22/07, Joseph Sanger <joseph.sanger@...> wrote:

> Hi there list,
>
> I have just posted an mp3 on my myspace site which uses Csound in a
> small way and wanted to share it. It's not particularly highbrow but you
> might find it amusing, it's a rather poignant duet for Banjo and
> Theremin. I modelled the theremin in Csound (not complicated) and played
> it with a MIDI keyboard, recording it live into Ardour via Jack, so no
> Csound score exists.
>
> The piece is called "Poor Little Robot"
>
> www.myspace.com/josephsanger
>
> Comments are welcome of course!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
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[Joseph Sanger]

Hi there Chuckk and Eamon,

Thank you for your kind comments!

Eamon: I will post a copy of the csd to the list, but I've just had a
look at it and, typically for me, there are no annotations and it's
really messy... I'm a bit embarrassed to post it, so give me a day or
two to tidy it up!

However, if your theremin SOUNDS wrong - I googled around for a bit
searching for the waveform and basically its a half sine wave - i.e.
just the first half above zero, a peak with no trough. Apparently this
is what gives the theremin it's distinctive timbre (but I'm no expert).
That was pretty easy with one of the gen routines. Hope that helps.

Chuckk: I'm sure it's utterly unfeasible for all kinds of reasons, but
it would be great to have a jam some day! I made a kind of fretless
electric 5-string, very primitive, but clawhammer sounds great through a
valve amp...

Hope you recover swiftly,

Joe

Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

> Very nice.  The instrumentation works great with the simple theme,
> very straightforward and catchy.
> I've been toying with the idea of running Csound and Pure Data on a
> laptop, with a small knobs/faders MIDI controller and my electric
> banjo both running into the laptop, and all three hanging from my body
> while I pick, turn knobs, and code.  Unfortunately I am on crutches
> with a broken metatarsal, so it's a ways off, but it's coming.
>
> -Chuckk
>
>
> On 4/22/07, Joseph Sanger <joseph.sanger@...> wrote:
>> Hi there list,
>>
>> I have just posted an mp3 on my myspace site which uses Csound in a
>> small way and wanted to share it. It's not particularly highbrow but you
>> might find it amusing, it's a rather poignant duet for Banjo and
>> Theremin. I modelled the theremin in Csound (not complicated) and played
>> it with a MIDI keyboard, recording it live into Ardour via Jack, so no
>> Csound score exists.
>>
>> The piece is called "Poor Little Robot"
>>
>> www.myspace.com/josephsanger
>>
>> Comments are welcome of course!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
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>
>

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[Eamon Brady-2]

Hi Joe,

That would be excellent, thanks for the help,

Eamon

On 22 Apr 2007, at 13:11, Joseph Sanger wrote:

> Eamon: I will post a copy of the csd to the list, but I've just had  
> a look at it and, typically for me, there are no annotations and  
> it's really messy... I'm a bit embarrassed to post it, so give me a  
> day or two to tidy it up!
>
> However, if your theremin SOUNDS wrong - I googled around for a bit  
> searching for the waveform and basically its a half sine wave -  
> i.e. just the first half above zero, a peak with no trough.  
> Apparently this is what gives the theremin it's distinctive timbre  
> (but I'm no expert). That was pretty easy with one of the gen  
> routines. Hope that helps.

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[Jacob Joaquin]

Absolutely love it!!

Best,
Jake

Joseph Sanger wrote:

Hi there list,

I have just posted an mp3 on my myspace site which uses Csound in a
small way and wanted to share it. It's not particularly highbrow but you
might find it amusing, it's a rather poignant duet for Banjo and
Theremin. I modelled the theremin in Csound (not complicated) and played
it with a MIDI keyboard, recording it live into Ardour via Jack, so no
Csound score exists.

The piece is called "Poor Little Robot"

www.myspace.com/josephsanger

Comments are welcome of course!

Thanks,

Joe
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