Intro to Spectralism

Quick intro to Spectral music: • Intro to Spectralism
More spectral analysis: • More spectral analysis...
Spectral analysis and additive synthesis: • Spectral analysis and ...
Intro to Gerard Grisey's Partiels: • Introduction to Gerard...

[@marcbrasse747]

Thank you very much for going through the trouble of making this video. I came here looking up Tristan Murail, which I became aware of quite by accident when seeing a performance of Les Sept Paroles on dutch TV years ago. I am a (sort of ) composer myself, although not a schooled one, and have always been deeply interested in synthesis. Furthermore I try to integrate all aspects of music into my personal style. So in stead of going very deep into one single direction I like to integrate all influences out of our musical heritage. Therefore electronic or electrocoustic music are not seperate identities to acoustic music for me. I simply do not like boxes. One can however learn a lot from looking into other peoples boxes and Spectralism is a fascinating one. Through the years I have studied all sound synthesis systems that I could lay my hands on (analog subtractive, additive, FM, AM, sampling, physical modeling, etc.) and this voyage has made me very aware of the interaction between physics and harmony you explain here. I am very interested in what I call "The sounds inbetween the existing ones". So timbres that do not specifically represent those of the existing, established musical instruments but fill out the posibilities inbetween. I am therefore very interested in resynthesis. Granular sampling and resonator modeling do however seem to be much more practical methods because one does not have to manage such large amounts of data, like having to manipulate individual overtones in Spear. Within the specific context of your video: Are you aware of the russian ANS Synthesizer? It was built in the 40ties and is basically a mechanical additive synthesizer that can reproduce all frequencies within the human range of perception with quite a high resolution (If I remember correctly 9 steps within a semitone but I'dd have to look it up to be sure). In theory it is the ultimate synthesizer in the broadest sense of the word since one can actually draw sound on it. Nowadays there is an app that recreates it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioOZnaqsd9qNpK8

[@gabrielbolanos4379]

I agree that it is interesting to think of harmony/timbre as a continuum of frequencies rather than discrete pitches- this is very easy to do with digital synthesis. With max/msp, for example, you can create a very powerful additive synthesizer similar to ANS, with infinite divisions of the semitone.

[@RanBlakePiano]

Fascinating

[@nicolapicarella9151]

fascinating and fully shareable philosophy

[@KordTaylor]

A really nice overview. Thank you. 👏

[@celiafarant8822]

This has been super useful! Thank you a lot!!!

[@ToniMazzotti]

Thank you!

[@comp_hyin]

Thank you very much :)

[@ehsantavakkol3436]

Thank you