as clean as fire

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As clean as fire was produced via overdubs of modular synthesizer, one monophonic line at a time. This means that each sound you hear was patched and created specifically for that moment in the composition. As clean as fire employs a Risset rhythm, which is a type of audio illusion to give the impression of a constantly accelerating tempo. Try tapping your finger to the beat.

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[mupersan82]

When I tap to the tempo it slows down and speeps up in a circular fashion.

[stretta]

@mupersan82 Actually, the tempo is an rising sawtooth. The abrupt transition this would create is masked by subdividing the rhythm when those transitions occur. Then you try to find ways to mask the transitions out of those, which is easier if you're throwing multiple parts at the listener. You have to teach the audience to expect a certain rhythm so you can carry off the illusion. The goal is to try to make it sound endlessly accelerating.

[Gunnar120]

what is the visualizer? it's... so pretty...

[stretta]

@Gunnar120 It is mainly a particle plane plug in for After Effects called Trapcode Form.

[mupersan82]

@stretta Ah, very clever work. How many bpm does the tempo change?

[RoninCZ]

Impressive! I wonder how would a piece using Risset tempo sound like with live performers.

[emperorcj]

@gannonsamuel

Or you can use this supercollider script. But it is for individual sample-loops. It overlays the sample with its half, double, etc and does a smooth sample-rate shift, while fading out the fastest sample and fading in the slowest sample. But it is not the easiest thing to work with, nor mix or adjust live. [swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/Mu­­sicTechnology/826]

I am making a Max patch for generating, editing, and live-mixing these Risset rhythms for my semester project muahahah

[emperorcj]

@gannonsamuel In a DAW such as Acid, or FL studio, or Ableton, you can do gradual tempo shifts. Simply put a bunch of tempo shifts together, while cutting the bpm in half (thirds, fourths, whatever) when it gets too large. Adjust those transitions so your music sounds smooth.

OR you can make a bunch of individual tracks with gradual tempo shifts, and overlay them.

[negrofuelgo]

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