#proofofwork
At the 3:04 mark of the track below, Aphex Twin offers us a glimpse at the sample he used to craft the entire seminal work that is Bucephalus Bouncing Ball. It sounds like a marble or ball bearing hitting a glass table.
You read that right: he used that sample to craft the entire song, using now free software called Composers Desktop Project https://composersdesktop.com/
It’s janky and dated and to my knowledge, nothing else exists (almost 30 years later, that does what it does.
Here’s the rub (and the proof of work): there was no GUI for Composers Desktop Project when this was written. It would have all be done via command line. I cannot imagine even attempting to recreate this in #Ableton, much less conjuring up the ideas and executing every beat division and tone with command prompts, and no influence to draw from. What a legend.
#tunestr
