My final project will be a development of the sound project I made with Sheng.
It brings together two things I love: 12-tone music and early 2000’s Techno/Electro. Both musical genres use algorithmic principles.
12-tone or serial music is often accused of being too cereberal – could it be danceable?
Vi Hart, twelve tones
A thoughtful analysis and visualization of the principles of atonal music, and a rather successful attempt at making it more approachable
ol’ Atonal music
Schoenberg piano pieces
Vitalic – La Rock 01
Tom Neville
Tiga
Sound layers:
drums 1 – bass drum
drums 2 – kick drum
drums 3 – high pitch, quick tempo
synth 1 – low pitch
synth 2 – high pitch
ambiance sound
voice
Code structure:
- create a random tone row, store its values in an array.
- assign each sound layer values based on the tone row and its permutations.
- For percussion sounds, the tone row values will decide where in the bar the beat gets played.
- For melodic sounds, the tone row values determine the pitch
- For the voice, the tone row values determine what words get sung/spoken
https://infogram.com/5c6376da-dce6-469b-afc7-58d9b53e13fc
(select: electronic)
Posted in Fall '19 - Introduction to Computational Media |