The [fftz.ether~] object is comparing two sounds bin-by-bin and picking the bin that's quieter. One sound is microtonal (20-EDO) synth chords, and the other is a bunch of chopped snips of a noisy, lofi piano loop.
I also have snippets of FM radio static frequency-modulating the resulting sound, which I find sounds convincingly like the sounds are on a radio.
Are you a She/Her or They/Them person in music? Hobbyist, professional, amateur, expert, anybody in audio engineering, sound design, music technology, etc?
relistening to this one - we're surrounded by so much functional sound design it's relaxing to get into something using the same techniques impressionistically
Child of the mid-late 90s 3DFPS-www-newsgroups-icq-linux frenzy, experienced the rise of web 2.0 when it felt like the fediverse feels now. This feeling is part of the reason why I'm here - call it midlife crisis 2.0.