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meat/great

By katarrhakt on June 1, 2014 4:39 pm

meet and greet the hypnotic effect of speeding-up-and-down repetitiveness from the point of view of a blown up eardrum ...

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Love the generated polyrhythms. How was this done?

Jim Wood wrote:

Love the generated polyrhythms. How was this done?

thanks! relatively unspectecular: painting midi-notes, adding a little bit every iteration, sending them to the nord drum 2 and recorded the audio-signal (of the 6 channels) with a slight varying of the tempo throughout the piece. adding bits of bassdrums here and there. and it gets this touch of sliding polythythmicness ....

I love this kind of stuff too. You should check out tom johnson's nuumbers music book "Self Similar Melodies". It's a little different but lots of great ideas for making music from math.   

tatecarson wrote:

I love this kind of stuff too. You should check out tom johnson's nuumbers music book "Self Similar Melodies". It's a little different but lots of great ideas for making music from math.


thanks! now i listened to some compositions of tom johnson, and indeed this is music i really enjoy and can draw lots of inspiration from ... thanks for the hint!

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