Electroacoustic Concert Music

Electroacoustic Composer #1: So, what does this Max patch do?Electroacoustic Composer #2: Well, it creates a granular cloud of sound by taking the signal from the contact mic on the tuba, performing a Fourier transform and multiplying all frequencies below 100Hz by the square root of the current Antarctic sea level, granulating it and modulating the grain density based on data picked up from an anemometer mounted on the roof of the concert hall. It all gets processed by an advanced spatialisation algorithm which distributes it through a 48-channel speaker array.Electroacoustic Composer #1: Wow, groundbreaking! What does it sound like?Electroacoustic Composer #2: It’s subtle. Just… like a long reverb, but weird. I actually wanted it to be really subtle, you know?Electroacoustic Composer #1: Totally. So how was the premiere?Electroacoustic Composer #2: The patch wouldn’t load.