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Sunday, 21 December 2003
Where is 1 (Reclock) ::
While going through my archives I was struck by how often I’d begun transforming improvisations into compositions using a tool called Reclock. I’d been recording my improvisations in free time, without a click, to get a human feel. Doing further work with them was difficult without a concept of where the bars and beats were. So in about 1988 or 89, I wrote Reclock. On top of the improvisation, I’d record a click track, playing the quarter notes, export a MIDI File, and then Reclock would do the math and spit out a new MIDI File with tempo change events to preserve the original timing. Dave Oppenheim later incorporated a version of it into Opcode’s sequencer, Vision. It seems so obvious now, but back then it was a revelation. I could either keep the tempo changes and the human feel, get rid of them all and create a more rigid feel, or something in between. ...