20 June: Jimmy Tidey and Tom Bryan present rifff.co.uk
Join us this Thursday where Jimmy Tidey and Tom Bryan will present their composition web app Rifff, a web app that allows artists to compose with a controlled element of randomisation.
Where: Troyganic Café, 132 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DY
When: 20 June 2013, 7.30pm
Jimmy Tidey and Tom Bryan’s app rifff.co.uk
Rifff is a media playback platform, which enables a composer to provide alternative versions of elements of a track.
It is sample based, and so does not rely on generative synthesis, allowing the content to be totally created by the artist – Rifff does not have a ‘sound’ of it’s own, rather it is a blank canvas; all the sounds it operates with are directly created by the artist.
The composer can provide several different versions of any or all elements of a piece, and these options are then selected from based on predetermined likelyhoods defined by the composer.
It allows a composer to introduce small or large variations in their music, rather than commit to a single definitive version.
It aims to allow recorded music to change its form on every listen, and as a format could anchor a piece of music to a piece of hardware, if the end user wanted to hear every possible version of an artist’s work.
Jimmy Tidey
Web Developer / Technologist
jimmytidey.co.uk
Tom Bryan
Composer & Recording Engineer
bristolsoundproductions.co.uk