Nash @nashhigh@sonomu.club

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!

#introductions

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.

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!!

remember to sometimes make your mellow, chill intros twice as long before the vocals come in so NPR can use them as transition music

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

calling this one 'periwinkle'

what I really like is making up little melodies

thinking about how I'd like to expand on the idea of windchimes again.

like, incorporating ways that the wind might influence changes to the pendulum length, or incorporating multiple chime sections that might be activated & deactivated, to change mode for instance

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

#music #livecoding

been playing around with running two different layers of frequency modulation on a sine synth & omg it is so rich

#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!

#introductions