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disquiet0199-spacecrickets

I've been wanting to use this technique for a while, and this week's prompt offered a good opportunity. This recording is made using a PureData patch that manipulates clicks as its only audio source. The [click~] object in Pd is probably the most mathematically "simple" way to make sound, and could easily be a stand-in for other types of data (radio telescope signals or other EM readings for instance). The patch manipulates clicks with a large number of delays and filters. The complexity of sound swells to parallel the way rain fluctuates in intensity. There is a lot of randomization in the patch, so it could theoretically run for days at a time without repeating any specific patterns. Ultimately I think this piece as it is fails to replicate the "soothing" ambient qualities of rain, but I still find my results interesting.