This is a 56-minute compiled custom CD version of Malhaus, made using the Malhaus Construction Kit, which is a new step towards a genuinely 'Open Source Audio' in the sense of source code which the end-user compiles and can fully customise. Written in March 2006 by Greg Fox, this is the "Fuzzy Felt Approach" example. The Construction Kit is now available. Please publish/describe as many custom versions as possible!! I will be posting one further example shortly, which will adopt a more 'involved' approach to custom compilation.
This is the first of two compiled examples of custom versions of "Malhaus" made with the Open Source Audio concept based "Malhaus Construction Kit".
"Malhaus" is an audiobook project by Greg Fox, written in March 2006. The idea of this custom version is that according to Open Source principles, things can be recompiled in custom versions from the "source code". "Malhaus : Construction Set" will be published in full at the end of April 2006 and will enable the end-user to create custom versions of the Malhaus project. So far as I know this is the first TRUE open source audio project uploaded to The Internet Archive. In a sense it works similarly to Stockhausen's Klavierstuck (can't remember which one) where some of the order of movements was left to the performer. Countless other examples abound. Well here the locus of control shifts from the "performer" of the work to the actual end-user, the listener: using the construction set, and the free software "Audacity" (or similar, eg. Pro Tools, Adobe Audition, Krystal Audio), the listener can create their own tailor-made version of the album from its constituent elements: please note: NOT its "tracks" - this is the album's sub-tracks - the bits and bobs which went together to make the standard version(s) of the album. So the listener assembles and compiles the album from its low-level source code creating a totally unique (yet identifiably "same") CD.
This "example 1" shows what type of results are produced by basic arranging of the source materials. "Example 2", uploaded together with the Construction Kit itself, will show more sophisticated approaches possible using this "open source audio" approach. The approach used in "example 1" is broadly analagous to "FUZZY FELT".
End users are warmly encouraged to publish their custom versions of this piece, particularly where they mix in foreign source elements such as their own readings of the TEXT of the audiobook, which will form a part of the construction set not only as recorded speech but as rich text format and plain text documents for precisely this purpose.
I don't (as yet) plan to publish EVERY CD this way, but from time to time I will conceive a piece as true "open source audio" in this way.
Structural diagrams will follow shortly to show how this was put together, and of course the Construction Kit itself will be available from the end of April 2006. For more information try my website or contact me on Hotmail: porktobacon@hotmail.com (Naturally this email address works now but won't in a hundred years' time so this will be edited out later.)
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