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@lonewick
This is an output with more updates behind it. More connected musical phrasing and smarter functions for interpreting the shape of the given text to build a hierarchical musical form from the overall shape down to phrases and motives. Still primitive and not super clear phrasing yet but there's a noticeable difference from the last one. This system will eventually take on a more drastic transformation to have clearer phrasing and smoother lines.
Text source:
"There is a man in a smiling bag.
The owls are not what they seem.
Without chemicals, he points." - The Giant
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@luzotxoa
Obliqu∞ Asymptot∞
Four tones, held without end, each leaning toward the next and never landing.
No attack.
No release.
No floor to rest on.
The air seems to accelerate around a moving body.
Held breath mistaken for stillness & tension mistaken for calm.
Nothing arrives.
made on sonic PI
https://on.soundcloud.com/fKqmCUfEjd4Fi65xvU
/sound
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@lonewick
If you want to hear interviews with your favorite video game composers all the back to the 80’s, you absolutely need to check out @GreenT128’s YouTube channel ‘The Sound Test’. An absolute gold mine and very well done. I can’t believe it’s not more popular.
Go to the Playlists section🕹️🎶
https://youtube.com/@thesoundtest?si=sbQOEsJfoMIt2Z3Y
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@lonewick
Master motivic development and you master composition.
A simple two-note interval can be continually re-contextualized for cohesiveness across an entire work. It becomes the melody, the harmony, the rhythm, and the overall structure.
There are infinite ways to approach it. As long as you maintain that basic seed in mind as you work, it can be chopped, stretch, scaled, stacked, rhythm-itized, and gesture-ized for as long as the story needs to be told.
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@lonewick
The 1991 game, Monkey Island 2, was the first game to use the iMUSE system for seamless, action-synchronized musical transitions.
It's crazy how well the tech worked that long ago. The transitions shown in the video are actually really impressive.
iMUSE (Interactive Music Streaming Engine) is a system that allows the game's music to dynamically react to on-screen action, much like a movie score. By manipulating MIDI data in real-time, it seamlessly shifts between different tracks, alters instrumentation, and bridges transitions without any awkward pauses or jarring skips.
https://youtu.be/7N41TEcjcvM
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@lonewick
‘Ruggine’ (for string quartet + electronics, 2019 - Casa Ricordi) by Zeno Baldi
https://on.soundcloud.com/lE6r1rCfapwUX9IEVX
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@lonewick
Another great volume of works featured by The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-seamus-vol-35
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@lonewick
Loving the first piece ‘Capriccio’ for violin and ensemble and the second piece ‘Portrait #2’ for classical guitar and electronics on this album so far. Can’t wait to hear the rest. This gesture-based style of composition is one of my favorite things and he does it so well. Highly active.
Pick out a gesture with your ear (a pitch bend, tremolo, etc.) and see how it moves through instruments and fractals.
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/varietas
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@lonewick
New means change the method.
New methods changes the experience.
New experiences change man.
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
https://youtu.be/7xyGtI7KKIY?si=POTWiGdSbadCtxLl
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@lonewick
'Vent Nocturne' for viola and electronics by Kaija Saariaho
https://youtu.be/lA5K0pVC-yU?si=Vem5N972wF3t51XK
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@lonewick
Enjoying this new album of string quartets by composer Rand Steiger performed by JACK Quartet.
https://youtu.be/TbeGg5vah4o?si=ocaE1EGSS-RUs7I5
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@lonewick
This is absolutely gorgeous.
‘presence of your absence’ by Lucy McKnight
https://youtu.be/k5ZvOfHQqQg?si=jmsXu30dpTNEPLrQ
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@lonewick
'Naama for Harpsichord (1984)' by Iannis Xenakis
https://youtu.be/PPnHHGuAiTs?si=UOeSUCH2R4y8uoVz
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