REMEMBERING O'O: Sound Files for FileMix and FileMixAuto (2011) 
  Realtime Csound5 (all platform) version

Art Hunkins
abhunkin@uncg.edu
www.arthunkins.com


The Kauai O'o is a now-extinct bird formerly native to the Hawaiian
island of Kauai. The introduction of black rat, domestic pig and
disease-carrying mosquitoes are thought to have contributed to its
demise in the late 1980's.

These 4 sound files are edited from the Kauai O'o recording posted on
the eartotheearth.org website, which in turn originated from the
Macauley Library orthitology collection at Cornell University (where
the Kauai O'o is identified as Moho braccatus). They are designed to
be looped in live performance.

These files, labeled soundin.1 through soundin.4, must be placed in
the directory from which FileMix (FileMixAuto) is run.

Soundin.1 is an 8-second background cricket track. Soundin.2 is
approximately the first half of the eartotheearth.org recording, and
is panned significantly to the left; soundin.3 is the second half
panned right. Each lasts 30 seconds+. Soundin.4 is centered, as
are the crickets, and is essentially the entire recording (>75
seconds).

Remembering O'o is primarily suited to FileMix4 and FileMix4ASC; it
is not recommended for FileMix (or FileMixASC). The files are
especially appropriate for *single-parameter* rendering, where
track amplitudes are varied and sounds are otherwise unmodified. In
such a case, *MIDI* control will result in far subtler variation
of amplitude changes and levels than will the ASCII keyboard.

The files work well in FileMixAuto also. Needless to say, whatever
the vehicle, amplitude changes should be slow and tempered.

For further explanatory notes, see the FileMix.txt that accompanies
FileMix/FileMix4 for Csound5 (at www.arthunkins.com), and the
FileMixAutoReadMe included with FileMixAuto/Sugar Activity version
(available directly from: www.arthunkins.com/FileMixAutoReadMe.txt).