A Constrained Piece

While the open, add whatever instruments have been developed so far approach is a good proof of some concepts, it’s not easy to get consistent musical results. This piece, then, is about the other end of the flexibility spectrum, where a piece that has been put together in a DAW (I use Bitwig) is then re-constructed in the Phyusic environment.

Areshetech was put together on a Novation Circuit, with MIDI and audio of each track recorded into Ableton. That gives me melodic material to work with. Rather than try and create a complex synth to play this material, I’m going to go with samples.

With the main synth voice and the bass part separately:

• Reverse engineer MIDI clips into Bitwig (because I prefer working there)
• Find synth voices that work and record a sample for use in Phyusic
• See what effects and modulation work

Code the various elements into Phyusic - both the Tone js elements, and the modulation/ interaction/ interface elements.

The results so far are here