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Title	Acúsmato-Opus-5G 2019/2020
Composer	Williams Montesinos
Instrument	Computer generated sounds from the Escalador Audio and Musescore
Date of composition	December 2019 – June 2020
Duration	4′ 03″

 

This work consist in a sequential itinerary that was imagined with an audio-font created from the Escalador Audio environment.

We wish to thank all the people, websites and also some companies for their contribution to the Escalador Audio project;

• First of all, my wife Vicky Estevez for her constant and invaluable support.

• My son, the composer and percussionist Daniel González Estévez, for his invaluable support within all the years of conception of the Escalador platform. Every time I asked him for advises or critics, his answers where very useful and helpful.

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• Mozilla

“Mozilla makes browsers, apps, code and tools that put people before profit.
Our mission: Keep the internet open and accessible to all.”

Thanks to Mozilla, the Escalador Audio is made with Firefox Browser

Also we would like to thank Paul Adenot for the Web Audio Api used on the Escalador Audio’s Reverberator.

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• Stackoverflow – https://stackoverflow.com/

“A public platform building the definitive collection of coding questions & answers.”
“A community-based space to find and contribute answers to technical challenges, and one of the most popular websites in the world.”

Of course, for developing the Escalador Audio Stackoverflow was a very important website where we found a lot of answers to many questions.

Thanks to:

Marc Stober – https://stackoverflow.com/users/119901/marc-stober

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• Github – https://github.com/

“Where the world builds software”
“Millions of developers and companies build, ship, and maintain their software on GitHub
—the largest and most advanced development platform in the world.”

Thanks to:

Andi Brae – https://github.com/andibrae
Pedro Ladaria – https://github.com/pladaria
Darrel Banks – https://gist.github.com/hacknightly

Pedro Siqueira – https://github.com/pedrovsiqueira?tab=stars, https://www.pedrosiqueira.com.br/
We where inspired on the audio javascript works of Pedro Siqueira to produce the Instrument Nº 1, and also the Instruments Nº 2 and Nº 3 that will be released on the next versions of Escalador Audio.

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• Brian Koponen – https://www.briankoponen.com/
Thanks to Brian Koponen we consulted some important javascript code tips very useful for the Escalador Audio application.

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• Open Air – https://www.openair.hosted.york.ac.uk/

Thanks to Open Air website, we use on the Escalador Audio’s Reverberator, some of the remarkable reverberations they created.

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• Patrick Breen – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OZD_iHNk6I
For his tutorial: how to screen record your DAW with internal sound, using BlackHole audio driver.

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• Devin Roth – https://devinrothmusic.com/
Thanks to Devin Roth’s BlackHole extension for audio, Escalador Audio’s sounds can be recorded to applications like Logic Pro.

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• The BlackHole extension – https://existential.audio/blackhole/
Thank to BlackHole extension, Escalador Audio’s sounds can be recorded to applications like Logic Pro.

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• W3Schools – https://www.w3schools.com/

“Learn to Code, with the world’s largest web developer site.”

Thanks to W3Schools we where confronted with some code problems and solved it with their powerful online code editor.

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• Toptal – https://www.toptal.com/designers/htmlarrows/

“A delightful reference for HTML Symbols, Entities and ASCII Character Codes”

Toptal helped us to compare some html symbols and codes for the Escalador Audio.

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• The JavaScript Event Keycode Info – https://keycode.info

Thanks to this versatile website we solved some JavaScript questions about Keycode Events

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• Special thanks to the friend and colleague Williams Montesinos – https://sonocreatica.org

Williams was an invaluable support for the process of constructing the Escalador Audio. Thanks for his clear commentaries about some of the implementations of the User Interface of the Escalador Audio.

One of the first utilization of the Escalador Audio was made by Williams Montesinos in 2019. Of course the Escalador Audio was not finished, but we where trying to experiment things with it. So by this time, he played some sounds from the Escalador Audio keyboard, he recorded it, and constructed a sound-font with that sounds, then he created two works using the application Musescore: Fluctuaciones Evemenciales Isométricas and Acúsmato Opus 5G / 2020 based on that sound-font material. The works are a sort of impressive sonic landscapes.