Thanks for your critiques, Hoyt, and Grok. Wow! Acoustical Research speakers. That was High quality equipment in its time.
My little ditty was composed on an AMD quad core, 2.5 Ghz machine & 4 gig'o'memory - (XP Professional, please!). Software: Cakewalk SONAR Version 8, Producer edition. Made heavy use of two soft synths: Roland's TTS-1 and Cakewalk's Dimension Pro. Even at peak dynamic performance I estimate only 20% of the quad core processors were utilized. The clockwork sound effects were extracted from audio files from Creative Support Services, an audio sound effects company. The sound effects were heavily massaged within Sound Forge Version 5 and subsequently spliced back into SONAR where everything was eventually mastered into a single stereo master track. The master was again imported into SoundForge for a final massaging, where a final normalization was performed. *.WAV and *.MP3 versions were produced. Audio is "reviewed" on audio-techica studiophones, and TANNOY Reveal monitor speakers. For the really BIG SOUND, I feed audio through Cerwin-Vega Re Series (big box) speakers in order to rattle the windowpanes, and occasionally my wife and the cats. I originally composed the melody for this piece decades ago on a classical guitar when I had just turned 20. I never would have imagined that almost four decades later I would choose to go back and data-mine some of my old compositions, putting a completely different face on them. I'm astonished to discover that I'm actually back into composing after an almost 10 year hiatus. Significant hardware & software improvements enticed me back into the field. I'm also looking into ways to see if I can translate into audio files a series of computer simulation runs that focused on variations of traditional Newtonian celestial mechanics. Not long ago I found myself analyzing a series of very odd chaotic-looking oscillations from some of my celestial mechanic runs. Serendipitously, both Stephen Lawrence and Mike Carrel supplied me with valuable insight into the matter when they advised me on what kinds of computer algorithms exist, and how to generate efficient simulation runs. It might be interesting to see if I can convert some of my more interesting my CM simulations, specifically the patterns produced, into audio WAVE tables and import them into some of the soft synths at my disposal. Some of my CM runs generated what appear to be interesting fractal patterns that might generate interesting works. You never know what will come back and byte ya. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
