[| finnegan's dream.mp3 | 10:00 / 13.7mb |
FFT patch
Signal processing for this piece was implemented in MaxMSP. Below is a screenshot of the pfft~ patch.
Finnegan's Dream is a text-sound piece made from a recording of James Joyce reading a chapter from Finnegan's Wake. As Joyce reads, pitch and time domain-spectral transformations are employed to alter the timbral content of his voice, eventually resulting in a sort of spectral resonator driven by the voice. Techniques used to realize the piece include spectral scaling, shifting, inversion, gating, and feedback of delayed spectral data.
