A few weeks ago I saw an article describing the use of the Web Audio API to create systems music[0], and I thought it would be a good way to get reacquainted with SuperCollider (I have no interest in Web Audio). I had a recording that had been haunting me for a couple of years, and finally I knew this is where it belonged. So I started playing.
As luck would have it, a couple weeks later the Disquiet Junto is tasked with celebrating Steve Reich's 80th birthday. After fiddling a bit more with my earlier prototype, I asked a friend for "some audio", and she sent me two perfect samples. I fed one to a granular synth, and used the other for the second part of the piece. The code is available as a gist[1].
Samples: Pedro Figueiredo, picul metre
More on this 249th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Wish the minimalist composer Steve Reich a happy birthday”[2]
[0]: http://teropa.info/blog/2016/07/28/javascript-systems-music.html
[1]: https://gist.github.com/pfig/62205a94ebe1d1d849da1f2cbc2deca1
[2]: http://disquiet.com/0249/
