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140 Characters

By Jacob Joaquin

Inspired by the article Hear Free Generative Music, in Archaic Twitter Haiku, made with SuperCollider at CDM, as well as this Csound Mailing List thread, I had to give 140 characters or less a try.

Listen: 140.mp3
Download: 140.csd

In order to make it work in 140 characters or less, I had to cheat. The minimum size for a CSD file in Csound is 109 characters long. So I only count characters that are embedded in the orchestra and the score. It also didn’t tweet very well.

Here’s what the code looks like, or least how it would look if the tweet didn’t chew it up:

instr 1
a2 expon 1,p3,.0001
a1 oscils 8000,88*(p4%9+5),1
out a1*a2
if p2<60 then
event_i "i",1,rnd(.6)+.1,4,p4+rnd(2)
endif
endin

i 1 0 1 8

To all of the artists involved with sc140, superb job!