Sound as Pure Form

Mark Renker

16 Sep 2025 — 1 min read

I was playing around with some Sound as Pure Form (SAPF) code examples, and some of these are fantastic. This is "bouncing lightbulbs, pencils, cans and other assorted objects":

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SAPF Example

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That sound was generated from this line of code:

[ 4 = n (4 3 7 rand 6h xline 0 impulse 4 9c 9u xline * 1m decay) (n 4h 84h nrands) (n nurands) (n .01 .11 nrands) klank rpan2 3 1m fadeout] .6 1.2 randz 1 2 ola play

This is such a cool language and I can't wait to go deeper into it. Code examples are here:

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