On Nov 26, 2007 8:47 PM, David Akbari <dakbari@gmail.com> wrote:

> What are some other ways to generate phase music using Csound? I know
> people have mentioned the use of the 'b' operator in the score... how
> would that work?

Have you checked out blue?  The way soundObjects work in blue, you can
have multiple bits of Csound score (or piano roll) occuring
simultaneously but warped with different tempo values, which of course
can change individually as well.  The score part of the .csd file blue
passes to Csound will be a bit hard to read, but within blue it's easy
to see the relationships between them, and to set the tempi very
precisely.  Seems to me a very intuitive way to make phase music.

I think the b score statement would be used by having various blocks
of score, perhaps with tempo changes, but each having different b
offsets.  The notes between two b's should always follow the offset of
the preceding b, so, for instance, a score segment could appear to
start at 10, but with b -10 the notes would start sounding at beat 0.
I have no idea how this affects/is affected by tempo statements.

-Chuckk