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Also, familiarise yourself with the relevant musical terms used to describe (and imitate / interpret) birdsong:
Intervals, microintervals
Rhythms
Motivs, Leitmotiv
Scales, modes, non-octave modes
Glissando
Vibrato
- Ring modulation
Aleatorics (in music)
Approaches to Artificial Birdsong
- A closer look at some transcriptions and musical interpretations of birdsong:
- Simple transcription by Peter Green
- Examples from Messiaen: Réveil des Oiseaux, (einfacher, monophon), Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (komplexer, freiere Interpretation
- Starting teaser: Heinz Funk's Moog Demo ZDF (Youtube), Risset's "Sud"
- Introduction to subtractive synthesis (Tal Noise Maker in Reaper, MAX-version)
- Sample manipulation and stitching (Mulab / Max Patch)
- Granular synthesis (Max Patch)
- Tool tip: Paul Stretch (resp. das entsprechende Plugin)
Resources:
The Reaper project file containing the TAL noisemaker synth plugin- based artificial bird song, and also the surround setup example with automatization:
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The MAX Patches used by Olav for recreating bird song:
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