hey gang! i’m looking for some feedback on a recent project. you see, i’ve been working on some “audio-morphing” software that can take any two sound files as input, and then create a third file that is a sort of “morph” between the two. eventually it will be taking realtime input as well, and chains of more than two files will be possible from within the software itself. at this stage though, i’ve only got a few mockups put together where i try to morph original files with drastically different spectra/fundamentals. i’ve been working on it so much that i can’t really tell how well it is or is not working, so i’m very interested in feedback/critiques/impressions. what does this sound like to you on first listen? the results can be much more subtle if the sound sources have a lot in common, but i am kind of interested in these cases that share very few common characteristics. anyway if you have time, please let me know if these fit your mental image of “sound morphs”, and why or why not. it would be a big help! thanks!
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please tune in to the signal with laurie brown on saturday, february 20th at 10pm. you can do so either on your transistor radio (tuned to CBC radio 2), or on the internet at http://www.cbc.ca/radio2. if you choose the latter option, you will also be able to choose from five different timezones (no matter where you live), thus increasing your chances of hearing my new orchestral work “for amma” by roughly 400 percent. the live recording comes from the winnipeg symphony orchestra’s 2010 new music festival, where richard lee did an amazing job of conducting.
i was going to liveblog this whole winnipeg trip, but i am bad at blogging, and to be completely honest i haven’t really done a ton of stuff yet. but all that will change today. this afternoon is the first rehearsal i’ve been in town for (the dress rehearsal) and tonight is the concert. nerves are acting up a little. but not too much. pretty calm. not much i can do at this point.
also, winnipeg has the world’s largest front-yard snowman. image to follow.
well, at this point it’s probably safe to publicly announce that in august of this year, i will become a PhD candidate at the state university of new york at buffalo.
if you live in or near banff,
please check out rolston recital hall on thursday (the 12th),
at 4:30pm to see the most amazing brazilian pianist: luciane cardassi
she is really the best,
and i will be in charge of some electronics on two pieces,
including ….sofferte onde serene…. by luigi nono.
recently i purchased a music box that takes punch-cards. on february 20th 2009 i performed a piece using this box, entitled “Stacey McPeek”. rolston recital hall was way over capacity, as visitors from a few institutions and festivals were on hand. this was lucky for me, since it involved a lot of younger people being around, and they seemed pretty into the piece. the signal from the box was amplified slightly through a homemade contact mic, and also fed into a gigantic max patch. the patch performed pitch and rhythm tracking, score following, and midi triggering. the midi data went out through a yamaha disklavier MX100 A. this is a video of the live performance, hence the shaking hands and applause.
hey everybody, thought i’d finally add some content!
i’m using a new youtube account to post videos of a recent project. there’s a more full explanation in the video descriptions for each of the (currently three) videos, but basically each of them will be a 2:42 long piece for disklavier. i might post them on the blog as they are produced, or maybe you should just go check out the new youtube account regularly.
This is the composition blog of Darren Miller, young composer from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. I will make use of it in the way that ancient proto-bloggers made use of web-sub-pages such as the antiquated “news” or “updates” web regions. Look here any time that you want to find out what I have done lately, in relation to musical composition. I will try to update frequently. You will find links to video and audio here, and also little summaries of the things I am doing. I hope you enjoy this composition blog, located at the handy web-address of:
I also hope that you enjoy (when it is fully operational), the more thorough and formal web-content of my official website, located (predictably enough) at the following web-coordinate:
