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Pitching a sampled 909 snare down a couple of semitones gives a darker, grainier texture

Pitching vocal samples upward without time-stretching creates grime's chipmunk vocal effect

Pixel art as a discipline developed within the demoscene alongside the related artscene subculture

Pixel mapping replaces each pixel of a source image with a drawn element sized or coloured by that pixel's value

Placing clap and snare together on beats 2 and 4 sets the backbeat of an electro drum pattern

Placing focal elements on the thirds lines or intersections reads as dynamic; centering reads as static

Placing hi-hats 'late'/humanized between kick and snare is the defining swing move in future garage

Placing individual hits off the grid by hand creates groove that uniform swing quantize cannot

Placing percussion hits in gaps not occupied by other elements creates rhythmic density without collision

Placing the techno clap only on the second kick, not on 2 and 4, opens the groove and avoids a rock feel

Placing two hi-hats per beat from a quintuplet grid produces a 3:2 ratio — quintuplet swing

Planning module power draw in milliamps against PSU capacity prevents overloading rails when building a system

play~ is chosen over groove~ for granular synthesis because its triggering allows efficient per-grain enveloping

PlayBuf plays a Buffer at a controllable rate, with optional looping and a trigger to jump to startPos

PlayBuf.ar loads an audio buffer and plays it back with variable speed, direction, and looping

PlayBuf.ar plays back audio files loaded into server buffers; rate controls speed and direction

Playing an octave up halves ß, so the Modulator amplitude must double per octave to keep the timbre constant

Playing only the best 30 seconds of each record developed nimble crate skills that transferred directly to club DJing

Playing the same melody an octave higher reads as brighter and more intense — register is an arrangement lever

ply(n) speeds up each individual event n times within its own time slot, adding rhythmic density

Points on a circle's circumference are computed from center, radius, and angle using sin/cos

Polar coordinates (r, angle) map to Cartesian (x, y) as x = cx + r*cos(a), y = cy + r*sin(a)

Polar warp reinterprets Cartesian coordinates as (radius, angle), turning stripes into rings and scrolling into rotation

Polar-warp plus radial-symmetry forms the mandala/kaleidoscope skeleton of a psychedelic visual

Polymeter and every-n-transform generate long-form evolution in techno without changing the core pulse

Polymeter is the cheapest way to make a loop evolve without writing more notes

Polymeter, polyrhythm, and counter-melody are realized in imperative engines as genuinely separate concurrent timelines that can drift

Polyrhythm sounds two conflicting subdivisions at once, creating a rolling tension that resolves periodically

Post-dubstep is a loose umbrella term for bass-influenced club music that resists single-genre definition

Post-noise emerged when noise artists infused kosmische, ambient, and new age into the noise aesthetic

Post-war composition split between total pre-determination and deliberate abdication of control

Power electronics is a strictly noise-oriented style enabled by cheap synthesizers and non-musician participation

Prand picks a random item from a list on each event, constrained to list members

Pre-gramming is the preparatory language and code design a live coder does before performing, which merges composition with language design

Prefer EQ cuts to boosts because their artifacts are quieter and land in less critical regions

Pressing Run in Sonic Pi adds a new concurrent thread without stopping existing threads

Pressure-sensitive note repeat encodes velocity into repeated notes via finger pressure

Primitive-based SDFs define scenes as mathematical formulae rather than volumetric grids, giving infinite precision and a tiny memory footprint

Probabilistic variation at low amounts humanizes a pattern; at high amounts it thins or breaks it up

Probabilistically ratcheting a step into a 2/3/4-hit burst adds unpredictable rolls and stutters

Processing audio in short segments reduces GPU memory at the cost of segment-boundary artefacts

Processing classes bundle related fields and methods into reusable, instantiable objects

Processing displays text using pre-converted VLW bitmap fonts loaded with loadFont() and textFont()

Processing event functions like mousePressed() interrupt draw() cleanly, running once per event

Processing keyboard events use keyPressed and key variables, with keyCode for special keys

Processing maintains drawing style state until explicitly changed

Processing's beginShape/endShape with bezierVertex() enables smooth custom vector paths

Processing's PGraphics is an independent off-screen drawing layer with its own coordinate system and settings

Processing's setup() runs once and draw() repeats each frame to create animation

Producers learned to alter sample pitch, speed, and texture to avoid detection and copyright claims

Programmed drum samples need sound-design treatment to fit a track's vibe

Programmers use both discrete linguistic symbols and analogue mental imagery simultaneously when reading and writing code

Progressive house commonly uses I–V–vi–IV and vi–IV–I–V progressions for emotional melodic journeys

Projection surface is a compositional choice: bodies, smoke, water, transparent screens, and architecture reshape the spatial experience

Projector throw distance must match the venue's depth and target size

Proper CC attribution includes title, author, source URL, and license name/URL — not just the artist's name

Proper juke is fast four-to-the-floor ghetto house; proper footwork is rhythmically abstract with beat-skips, departing from house entirely

Pseq plays items from a list in order for a given number of repetitions

Pseq, Prand, and Pwhite are three core Pattern generators with distinct selection behaviors

Psychedelic palettes are highly saturated complementary/triadic hues always in motion via palette-cycle — color must never settle