covering an imaginary prurient cover of girl talk copying soulja boy tell em
Last week I did some live noise on my radio show at WECI to mourn the defunding of Richmond’s Human Rights Commission. It was pretty basic; two channels of fx’ed feedback and a mic. It went well, but I left uninspired.
I’ve been dabbling in computer music lately, but have found it even less fulfilling than analog feedback had become. I’m learning to use and write externals for pure data. I also found jack to be pretty great. But I didn’t really know how to knit it all together.
A_______ and I have been reading snacks and shit. It’s been educational since I hardly know anything about contemporary hip hop and there’s plenty of it on there. A_______ happily dared me, tonight, to play some soulja boy on my weekly noise show Dead Air.
I grabbed my thinkpad and happily obliged. The end result:
- pure data with a bunch of phasors and oscillators strung together
- alsa player loaded with kiss me thru the phone
- jack
- jackrack with a monstruous pile of effects
- a shitty one button ball mac-mouse stolen from the live assist DJ booth machine
It sounded great. Alsaplayer was exactly what I was looking for in a basic audio player; its simple loop tool and speed slider were fabulous. Most fun I’ve had playing noise in a long, long time.
