Heart Hz

The compositional core (heart?!) of Heart Hz is a sequencer designed in Max/MSP consisting of 4 independent MIDI pulse streams used to control a handful of complimentary instrumental voices. Pulse streams are sent to Ableton Live where they are quantized to a scale/range/sequence before triggering software instruments and sample banks OR are converted to control voltage and used to trigger notes/events on a modular synthesizer. The rate of each stream is mapped to a midi fader controller along with various other instrumental parameters (pitch range, sample selection, scales, articulations, etc.) thus creating a playable interface for performance. In essence, I programmed a network of relationships that I thought would lead to musical results. The process was a creative loop of designing, improvising with, listening to, and then re-designing (tweaking) this network in the spirit of finding musical and inspiring pockets and gestures. Once I felt I had sufficient ideas recorded, I edited, mixed, and in a few cases overdubbed other instruments in order to accentuate the musicality of the output.