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GS is sound synthesis that operates on the microsound time scale. Samples are split into small pieces called grains which can be layered and altered according to various parameters such as a speed, phase, volume, frequency etc.
Low speeds, plays a soundscape often described as a cloud. At high speeds, the result is a note or notes of a novel timbre.
History
1947 Denis Gabor introduced the idea that sound can be represented by a series of elementary grains (a pulse containing temporal and frequency information.)
Iannis Xenakis explicated a composition theory for grains of sound using analog tone generators and tape splicing.
All sound, even continuous musical variation, is conceived as an assemblage of a large number of elementary sounds adequately disposed in time. In the attack, body, and decline of a complex sound, thousands of pure sounds appear in a more or less short interval of time Δt