making a harsh noise attractor in OsciStudio Livecoding

OsciStudio: oscilloscopemusic.com/software/oscistudio
N-SPHERES preorder: oscilloscopemusic.com/watch/nspheres

The next track of the N-SPHERES EP to be released is called ATTRACTOR.

An attractor exists within an evolving system, in which the current state depends on it's previous state. For example the next position in a coordinate system depends on where it was before. Some parameters may affect the way it evolves, and with certain combinations of parameters it can reach a stable state, where it's position comes to (roughly) the same place periodically (an attractor).

more sophisticated explanation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor
examples with nice pictures: www.cedrick.ai/posts/attractors.html

In terms of audio this means an attractor can be used as a semi-stable oscillator that produces rather rough sounds, sometimes periodical (tonal), sometimes chaotic (noisy), and always hard to control. Often the range of parameters only contains a few small areas where the combinations match up between doing nothing and breaking out into chaos. My attempt for the formula shown in the video was to have a good range of working parameters, and to make it work within the audio spectrum a nice trick is to give one parameter an audio frequency input, so it always has a tonal component without losing it's roughness.

The upcoming track ATTRACTOR explores these semi-stable systems, and unlike in Intersect and Function you won't come across a single straight line in it. Prepare yourself.

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