Evolutionary Sound Design and composition for the Nord Lead 4
Palle Dahlstedt · 2009
In a collaboration between me and the leading synthesizer manufacturer Clavia/NORD, these tools have been brought into the market, integrated into several of their main synthesizer models (Nord Modular G2, Nord Lead 4, Nord Lead A1). When the Nord Lead 4 was released, I made a set of sounds which were designed with this feature, distributed freely to all owners of this instrument, through the manufacturers website. Together with the sounds, I produced a set of 14 short electronic music pieces as a demonstration of the capabilities. In those pieces, both the musical material and the sound design was developed with the help of these interactive evolutionary tools, together with manual work.