I’m looking for volunteers to help create a random sound to feature in a new IDM track. It won’t be painful and involves no thinking and virtually no effort!

The only thing you’ll need to do is send me a number each time I ask.

Every so often, I’ll DM a request for a random number of so many digits. An example tweet would be:

“Please send me a number greater than 1 and less than 1000″ or “Please send me a 0 or 1″.

Your responses will form values for a range of FM synthesis parameters so you’ll play a direct part in generation of the overall sound. The values will be entered in order of receipt and will govern factors such as:

• carrier frequency
• carrier wave
• wave shape
• modulation index envelope
• harmonicity
• time
• waveshape frequency
• volume
• waveshaper envelope
• amplitude envelope
• effects

Tweet A Sound

In the spirit of this social experiment, I’ll be using Andrew Spitz’s lovely Tweet A Sound application to generate the sound. Contributors won’t be told which parameter I’m requesting a value for. I’ve scrambled the order in the list above, so no clues there either!

What if the random sound is awful?

There’s a high probability that the resulting noise will be less than musical but irrespective of how it sounds, it will be incorporated.

If you’d like to help, just let me know! Send a tweet to @kieronjames or respond to this blog post.

Project Contributors (updated as I get a moment!):

@ambienteer
@DavidMcSherry
@boardyuk
@mrbitterness
@UBLF
@auditorycanvas
@fjfonseca
@madebyrobot
@DigitalDoyle
@leeconnolly
@groovecriminals
@rozz3r
@jaymoy
@soundplusdesign
@bigmanbeats
@hugoverweij
@sync24