Study in White Noise

This is another application of one of the methods I explain in detail in my more than 3-hour tutorial about granular extractions. What you hear is white noise. Nothing else than white noise. I stretched the recording of the white noise by 10% without changing any pitch or frequency using granular techniques. Then I recorded the stretched noise again and used this second recording as a new source for further stretchings. All in all I increased the time resolution of the original recording in 80 consecutive steps – while never changing any pitch or frequency. What I´ve got is less than 1 millisecond of white noise stretched to audibility – 1 millisecond of sound frozen in time. I call this method my “sonic microscope”. I´ve smoothed (crossfaded) the above mentioned 80 steps of going deeper and deeper into the seconds and milliseconds of the recording to make it more comfortable to listen to (causing a loss of recognisability of each individual step though).

During the piece there are long periods of seemingly unchanging sound. Seemingly unchanging!!! The sound changes each second (sometimes it lasts a bit longer, sometimes a bit shorter). But the changes are very small, hard to notice – but there are changes going on.