Making the 4 Basic Wave Shapes with Additive Synthesis Additive synthesis is an approach to making sounds that utilizes sine tones as the building blocks of the sounds. In fact, one can make the 4 basic wave shapes, sine, triangle, pulse, and saw, by adding together singe waves. By adding […]
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Wave Shaping the 4 Basic Wave shapes In this episode, we are going to learn about wave shaping. This is a technique for creating different sounds by changing the shape of the waveform. Additionally, we will see how to make the 4 basic wave shapes in synthesis. These wave shapes […]
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Overtones, Undertones, Harmonics, and Partials An essential part of synthesis is learning about overtones, undertones, harmonics, and partials. these are the components of a sound’s frequency material that make up its tone color. Tone color is the unique sound of an instrument or voice and in synthesis, it is at […]
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Pure Data Basics & Digital Audio Fundamentals We are about to go on an adventure in which we will learn about the art of synthesis using the open source programming environment, Pure Data. PD is a free download and is a very wide-open creative environment for artists to create all […]
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Rain at Dusk Dusk is that time of day when the late afternoon starts to spiral down into night. At this time, it is said that the barriers between the unseen worlds of perception and our ordinary reality are thinner than at other times of the day. As the darkness […]
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A Time of Tribulation A Time for Temperance Credits Music Composed and Performed by Lawrence W. Moore Fractal Animation by Lawrence W. Moore Filtering and final Video Production by Liza Seigido Description This piece is inspired by the feeling of tribulation, where one is restrained and tormented with no apparent […]
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Bouquet in the Abyss Credits •Music and video composed and created by Lawrence W. Moore Description This piece depicts archetypal imagery of flowers and plant life, symbolizing life and its ever-growing and ever-evolving nature. The bouquet that is depicted contorts itself and moves in a way to re-shape itself and […]
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