I want to create piece ‘played’ by a broken FFT orchestra with this project.

First, I try to work with amplitude and phase directly by writing the amp values to a buffer and then breeding them back to reconstruct the FFT. Then I feed the sound into six delaylines which have different but very close phasor frequency as the main part of the inharmonic melody.

Meanwhile, four of them are controlled by two random frequency generator, one gives integer between 7 to 9 and one between -900 to 900. Those two are going to make the melody glitch at some point of the track.

Sketch of track structure

Also, I feed the signal and turn it on and off immediately to create some micro beats. They are controlled by a 120 bpm sequencer. Another sequencer is 640 bpm, also receiving the original signal but it doesn’t turn off immediately, it’s like extending and delaying the microbeats.

Because there’s a tempo router controls the tempo of writing the sample value. So the 4 mins track is symmetrical in structure but runs bpm 120, 640, 120, 640 in turn.

Demo: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/591612884