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Microsound is a genre of electronic music that focuses on the manipulation of very small sound fragments, often at the level of individual samples or even individual waveforms. Artists in this genre use granular synthesis, time-stretching, and other techniques to create intricate and detailed compositions that explore the subtle nuances of sound.
A cousin to the glitch genre, microsound explores the lower and higher frequencies of the sound spectrum through digital and analog signal processing, granular synthesis, and micromontage. It focuses largely on the arrangement of sound particles within a composition.
Granular synthesis is a sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale Excerpt from Agon – Horacio Vaggione A piece of music composed with fast and slow granular synthesis.
Arrangement of microsounds on an incredibly small time scale. Read more Micromontage is the arrangement of sounds (known as microsounds) on an incredibly small time scale. These sounds usually last from 10 milliseconds to less than a tenth of a second.
- Musical Time Scales
- General Description of Particle Synthesis Elements and Parameters
- Particle Synthesis Techniques
- The Music of Microsound
According to Roads, we can arrange musical events into nine hierarchical timescales that cross-interact within our perceptual boundaries. The topmost being the ‘Infinite’ - which can be conceived as an endless sine wave. Below is the level he calls ‘Supra’, which extends beyond individual composition and can be measured in months, years and even ce...
Synchronous vs asynchronous generation of grains The synchronicity of a granular engine has to do with the ways of temporal distribution of sound particles. Some type of variable-rate clock is implemented in every granular system—either internally, by means of a dedicated input for an external source, or both. In case of a synchronous granular synt...
The term particle sound synthesis serves as a macro description of many possible ways to manipulate microsonic content. In this section we will be exploring fundamental concepts and general differences between the various sub-branches. Granular Synthesis is the most fundamental technique upon which all the other ones are derived from. Any sampled o...
Evidently, since early experiments of pioneer composers a lot has changed both culturally and technologically. Though various pieces of software and hardware that utilize particle synthesis are not genre specific and mesmerizing granular textures can be found even in the depth of layers of popular music, microsound as a compositional framework cont...
Dec 5, 2017 · It is informed by the worlds of Musique Concrète, where speed and direction variations were combined with creative tape splicing to pioneer new sounds, and Microsound, where computers allow for sound to be divided into pieces smaller than 1/10 of a second and manipulated like sub-atomic particles.”
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A cousin to the glitch genre, microsound explores the lower and higher frequencies of the sound spectrum through digital and analog signal processing, granular synthesis, and micromontage. It focuses largely on the arrangement of sound particles within a composition.
