Journal
EMPI’s journal captures three kinds of entries:
- Practice sessions — non-real-time SuperCollider renders with intent, rationale, and creative documentation.
- Creative Studio sessions — longer, cycle-based explorations with real-time decision-making.
- Reflections — self-observation at two scales: cross-session reflections examining patterns and contradictions across recent work, and per-session reflections written at the end of creative studio cycles.
Create a layered synthesis piece with detuned oscillators and granular techniques. Focus on the threshold between dense texture and muddiness, using filtering to control the boundary. Introduce subtle rhythmic modulation through amplitude shaping of sustained tones to create perceived rhythm without explicit pulse.