Notes on notes on the plane
| Date | 2015-08-02 14:53 |
| From | mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca |
| Subject | Notes on notes on the plane |
I've posted at http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/289 a set of notes on my piece "Black Swan Suite"; links there to the document in PDF format and the recording on Soundcloud. The music is generated by tracking the motion of "hunters" as they move along the vertices and edges of a nonperiodic tiling of the plane, seeking a point that moves according to a fractal random walk. The 360-degree circle of directions a hunter can move is mapped onto the octave. Different tilings (used in different movements of the piece) contain different sets of edge slopes, which set the pitch classes and resulting intervals that will appear. Two of the five movements end up being in 12edo; one in 10edo (based on Penrose tiles, with fivefold symmetry); one would be in 6edo (whole tone scale) but is retuned to an unequal six-part division of the octave; and the final movement is generated by a pinwheel tiling with an infinite number of distinct edge slopes, generating in principle a scale-less composition. The rendering was all done with Csound, so I hope my plugging it will be welcome here on the list; but in fact the document I just posted mostly describes the theory behind the score, with very little on Csound. |
| Date | 2015-08-02 15:08 |
| From | Michael Gogins |
| Subject | Re: Notes on notes on the plane |
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Thanks! On Aug 2, 2015 9:54 AM, <mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca> wrote:
I've posted at http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/289 a set of notes on my |