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I loved that album, BGM.... >At 2:36 PM -0600 11/6/07, Daryl Shawn wrote: >>Perhaps most people are familiar with this, but this blows my >>mind...a "Shepard tone", created of a particular combination of >>sine waves, which makes it seem as if the tone is continuously >>descending without ever reaching bottom. A loop that simply >>repeats, while only APPEARING to evolve...awesome. >> >>here's a direct link to a nicely done clip on Wikipedia: >>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/DescenteInfinie.ogg > >Relatedly, check out Oli Larkin's "Endless Series" VST effect bundle >( http://www.olilarkin.co.uk/index.php?p=eseries ) which features >effects based upon practical applications of the Shepard/Risset >tones -- endless flanging, phasing, pitch shifting, etc. I haven't >tried them out yet (just found this info myself last week on >kvr-vst.com) but they look pretty interesting on paper. > >Another good example of Shepard tones is in "Loom", the last song >from Yellow Magic Orchestra's 1981 release 'BGM' (whick, along with >'Technodelic', also happens to be quite possibly one of their two >finest albums, IMNSHO). The first minutes of the song are based >primarily around a rising Shepard tone series. Additionally, the >Wikipedia entry mentions that this song is a reworking of "The >Infinite Space Octave" -- a tune released by their computer >programer Hideki Matsutake. That last fact was news even to me. > >(Okay, so I'm feeling a bit like "meaningless-trivia-r-us" today...) > > --m. >-- >_____ >"I want to keep you alive so there is always the possibility of >murder... later" -- ... http://www.zmix.net