HOWDY!!!

The PHISEM project does pseudo-physical modeling
synthesis of particle-type sounds.  It is
part of the larger umbrella project called
Physically Oriented Library of Interactive Sound Effects
(PhOLISE, a word play on "Foley" sound effects)

You just heard some shaking sounds, but the scores
don't do them justice.  This is best experienced
with a controller or at least a GUI.  cd to the
PRCode/stk-4.1.3/projects/demo directory now living in 
your home/PRCode directory, and type: 

Shakers.bat

Wiggle the sliders.  Cool, huh?  There are many
settings that cause things to clip.  Just keep the
Shake Energy slider near the lower end when you're
making changes to things like the number of objects
or the damping.

Have fun.  Shake, shake, shake...

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Exercise:

Go find a shaking/scraping/rubbing sound that you
want to model.  Use snd and/or SMS to get out the
main resonances, guess at the number of objects
and system damping.  Find the existing sound in
the Shakers instrument that sounds closer to your
target than any other.  Hack that one to realize 
your new sound.  I am working on analysis tools, 
that will do this process automatically (parametric 
sampling!!).

Nite nite.