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So somehow the topic had gotten onto chod (whatever that may be) and from there the Chöd wikipedia and for some reason someone asked for a bell. Having been nosing around SoundFont files a suitable bell was not too hard to find.
More speculation follows, on account of rain heard across trees through an open window, as a pianist may hear notes more to the left or right. The audience typically has a different view. First up we have code that is more towards white noise, or totally random. Someone who is not colorblind or better yet someone who can objectively measure the "color" could better inform you of the exact hue. The gist is to schedule notes at random intervals, and then to have multiple tracks at different pans doing their own random things.
At some point you may notice that the code is buggy, not what you intended, and needs to be redone. This has happened several times now. Sometimes the bugs can be beneficial.
Next is something less chaotic. Still sounds a bit like rain, maybe the kind that involves a gutter that has some regularity of overflow?
The monsoon can be pretty intense. Even with an umbrella the monsoon gave splash damage up to the knees, and the umbrella can be difficult to hold up against the weight. Or I had noodles for arms. Adjusting the number of generators and the frequency of beats will move the intensity level around.
The Ives "Universe Symphony" might be worth a look.
With complications one can shift back and forth between periodic and chaotic forms. There are various ways this could happen: a cut, or some sort of crossfade. Maybe you have a fancy DAW that could handle this for you? One might want to roughly match the note intensity for the different algorithms, maybe.
Or how about with some pitched percussion? Here, BUG is being used to good effect.
tags #composition
P.S. The scripts have been cleaned up, a lot. "I don't know what I'm writing (yet, or ever)" code is generally messy, abortive, and much fiddled with over time. Most of it gets thrown out or left to rot in a repository, especially when it goes nowhere or repeats previous work. The vague idea here was to do something with critical bands but, somehow, cowbells.