grand walker

I'm walking. The grid is walking. An apple rolls around the grand piano keys.

I'm out of words for this. You can download the Grand Walker as an ogg audiofile of 15MB.

Here's a screenshot of the patch used for making this music:

• arie wrote:
  >I'm no spammer -Might change profession. if you keep on insisting... Nice patch BTW
• Adam Sampson wrote:
  Very nice -- the piano samples you're using sound a bit "crunchy", though. I use the Steinway soundfont from http://www.hum.aau.dk/~bovbjerg/piano4.html which seems to sound pretty good.
• Frank (fbar) wrote:
  Thanks for the Soundfont hint, Adam. I used the piano soundfont from Naturalstudio: http://www.naturalstudio.co.uk/ns_piano.html I guess I'll I'll try the Steinway one, too.
• Alberto Zin wrote:
  I'm listening to the Gran Walker. Interesting ! Is it algorithmic ? You play on the computer keyboard (saw the QWERTY in the patch..). Good job. AZ
• Frank (fbar) wrote:
  Hi Alberto, the keyboard shortcuts are used to switch on and off the grids shown in the black area (the GEM window). The red squares there *walk* along the directions, the lines inside the white squares indicate. Every white square also represents a note to play. Which notes to play can be changed with the green toggle labeled "key" on top of the [chords] object. Directions inside the grids can be changed as wel using the 3x3 blocks inside "gridwalker-gui".
• Frank (fbar) wrote:
  ... or, to be correct: The "key"-toggle just switches on and off keyboard input. The chords itself are changed with the F-Keys, if the key-toggle in set to on. In the screenshot, the chord at key F7 is active.
• unknown visitor wrote:
  Very nice indeed! My only irk is there are quite a lot of heavy dynamics where the loudest notes tend to be hit a bit too heavily for my tastes. Should be softer. Very lovely though.
• Kevin McCoy wrote:
  I like this a lot - the dense parts are very nice with lots of tone clusters; really beautiful. I can't wait to try fluid~, do you think it's possible for OS X?
• Thomas Jeppesen wrote:
  This is really interesting :) I'd love to know more about how this piece was actually performed, meaning, how much interaction was going on while playing out the piece. And off course, could one be so lucky that the patch is available somewhere?