Mike Foyle - 7 AM (Algorithmic composition)

The entirety of the sound synthesis and composition for this piece is done within Max/MSP. Mike says 'I decided to try and create an idm-esque production with a very obvious sense of progression and development and also tried hard to manipulate synthesised sounds as much as possible while retaining musical integrity, rhythm and structure.'

All synthesisers, effects, and sequences are coded algorithmically within max msp. These include a reverb effect, bandpass feedback delay, comb filters, low pass resonant filters, FM synthesiser, subtractive synthesiser, percussion synthesiser utilising tendency masks and random number generators, and perhaps my favorite of all, the drum machine, which uses sine, square and noize oscillators, frequency and amplitude envelopes and preset banks to synthesise simple electronic drum sounds including kicks, snares and hihats.

This is a project that I dug up from my second year of uni in 2007. I hope you enjoy it!

http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/jukebox/content/software/FoyleM_7am.html

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[angela1894]

So, let me get this straight, this was ALL composed by an algorithm ?

[mikefoyle]

yeah completely 100% :)

[AxiomCrux]

nice one! great sound quality, is this all recorded in 2 channel live or did you do a multi track record and mix in post? did you make use of any externals or libraries or is it all built in objects?

[mikefoyle]

its all 100% generated from all standard objects within max msp. no external processing, no bouncing, no recorded audio. all synthesis and processing within max msp. i created my own effects and synthesisers to create the sound, and the sequences and arrangement are programmed into "coll" objects.

[henrids]

MAX/MSP: like a boss. Congrats, this is pretty serious stuff !

[god0fgod]

I'm trying to make a random music generator app for iOS. Definitely wont get anything like this.

[jarooFLtutor]

Really cool patch Mike. Got to dig into max after watching this. How long did you spend doing this? Sounds so amazing :D

[woundedsanity]

this shit is fucking awesome! unbelievable this was composed completely by an algorithm

[Nabo00o]

Very very nice!

[codytacoloyd]

I love this

[miuziqa]

Amazing! ,i'd love to see that patch, it looks very interesting

and really nice sounds

[GruithuisenCityMan]

Greeeeaaaaat !!!

[eliasb8]

I loved it!

[epico94]

astonishing!

which uni did you study?