For this project, I created a melodic pattern based on an arpegiated sequence that is commonly used by singers to warm up their vocal chords. The original sequence consists of 12 notes and spans two octaves. The sequence I adapted spans only one octave and consists of 6 notes. The sequence is mapped to 4 fm instruments which are varied with respect to timbre, jitter, location, and register transposition. I used a saw-tooth oscilator as my modulator and a triangle oscilator as my career. The change in timbre that you hear in the piece is achieved by varying the FmIndex and Ratio.
The piece is broken up into five parts. The first part is 20 seconds long, and it is during this part that the interval between notes decays from 500 milliseconds to 10 milliseconds. The remaining 4 parts that follow are 10 seconds long. At the start of each section the note length decreases by approximately 50 miliseconds, and one or more of the components of the voices is modified. As a result, the initial patern is broken up into multiple components that we perceive as individual components.
You can listen to the audio file and download the chuck source code files here: