Śruti, by Tim Shaw

Śruti

by Tim Shaw

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On the 29th March 2020, for no real reason, I decided to broadcast a continuous but ever changing drone to the Internet for 23 hours and 58 minutes (from 00:01 to 23:59 CET). The piece broadcast originated from recordings I made of a Shruti Box with 11 notes, spanning a single octave of a chromatic western scale. Each note of the box was recorded for one full cycle of the Shruti’s bellows as a single audio recording in a pretty noisy environment (a living room near to a road).

Then using the visual programming language Pure Data I built a patch which would play a cycle of each of the neutral (white) notes of the Shruti. When the cycle of the note is complete its pitch randomly changes by +/- 2%. The patch runs two instances of each note panned hard left and right. Each time a note repeats you hear (or not) very slight, microtonal changes in the texture. This continues until your computer crashes or you ears hurt. Clicks and distortions are caused by Pure Data and noise from the recording space. This is a short sample of the day long version, lasting just under 30 minutes. The original broadcast used Vincent Rioux browser interface built for radiobal.fr.

'In music, Śruti refers to the smallest measure of sound a human being can detect'

As Phill Niblock would say 'Play it loud'.

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released April 30, 2020

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Goldsmiths University, Great Hall

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