Hi everyone! I'm Nash. I do a little songwriting & composing/sound design, but I also like messing around with electronic stuff & computer/procedural music.
Lately I've been working on an update for #Pebble, my music code language project!
This will be my account for talking about music & sound stuff. You can also find me at @nashhigh@kcmo.social, for more general posts & memes!
I had something similar to this happen this morning, although it was probably more of a sleep paralysis hallucination. I was hearing a dramatic orchestral piece & fighting to wake up & confirm that it wasn't actually coming from outside.
I finally did wake, and the music disappeared. Satisfied, I dozed back off & it started playing again, so I just let it, trying to encourage it to be as complex & rich as I could.
the neat part is just how much it sounds like a real song (albeit faint & muffled). I can often pick up vocals and rhythm, and sometimes specific instruments as well. my brain really fills a lot in once it gets going (I'm sure being in that liminal middle-of-the-night brainspace helps too).
I haven't ever checked out a spectrograph of fan sounds, but I bet they're perfect for this illusion. they seem to have a wide spread of noise frequencies, with repeating oscillations at varying rates
do you ever hear non-existent music in the sounds of a fan or motor?
I've been running a desk fan at night while I sleep, and often I'll wake up in the night & hear very clearly what sounds like a song playing faintly outside. it isn't real though, and as far as I know they aren't actual songs. I imagine it's my brain picking up repetitions in the complex noise of the fan & filtering it selectively & somewhat imaginatively. I can hear it slightly better if I focus on it, but only up to a point.
fixed a couple bugs in #Pebble yesterday that were causing an extra note to trigger after a sequence ended in certain circumstances. they were both hard to track down, but I'm glad to have them fixed!
I'll post a patch with the fixes sometime soon, but I might add new glyphs to the fonts first too.
In the meantime let me know if you run into an extra note attack issue -- it might be one of these, but it could be entirely different!!
In the meantime, worth noting that & @ ! ~ ` \ ; ' " and _ are all other unreserved characters that currently exist in the Pebble fonts, so there are really 36 single-character name options.
(however, I don't promise I won't eventually reserve some of those symbols for new features, especially since I'm almost out of lower-case letters for those 😆 --capital letters are safe from future reservations, though)
Working on a larger song project in #Pebble & am using the MIX chunk to lay out the tracks, but I can already see that having only 26 capital letters to assign parts to isn't going to be enough...
I'll need to add more glyphs to the Pebble fonts & maybe some kind of UI to easily add symbols or emoji, just to expand the number of available single-character names
hey friends! I'm making a tool that arranges PDFs into a printable zine layout!
so far we can just do 8-page minizines, but I'm planning to add a few more options soon!
And obviously it doesn't stop there. From the wikipedia page I just learned about
MUSIC, the first computer music program, was developed on the IBM 704 by Max Mathews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N
here's a little #Pebble video sampling the double-FM synth sounds -- this time I've added some enveloping to the FM modules as well, to give them a little more shape
#Pebble 1.1 is officially out!
I'm super excited about the new features & changes, but I spent all night writing up the patch notes, so I'll have to talk more about it tomorrow!
For now: https://nashhigh.itch.io/pebble/devlog/375093/pebble-11-mix-it-up
Hi everyone! I'm Nash. I do a little songwriting & composing/sound design, but I also like messing around with electronic stuff & computer/procedural music.
Lately I've been working on an update for #Pebble, my music code language project!
This will be my account for talking about music & sound stuff. You can also find me at @nashhigh@kcmo.social, for more general posts & memes!
I'm Nash! (they/them)
I'm a little all over the place musically speaking:
- folksy acoustic songwriting
- video game music & sounds
- electronic & chiptune stuff
I also make #Pebble, a code language for music/sfx!