Canon in Pee (For Piano)
By fc on May 4, 2014 12:19 pm
My ode to Pachelbel. I had the unfortunate experience a couple of years ago of playing my own arrangement of Canon in D, by Pachelbel, at a wedding. It's just… you know those pieces of music that make you want to gouge your eyes out with a rusty spoon when you hear them? Not because it's a bad piece of music, but because it's been played, ripped off, re-presented and basically abused so much. Well, that's how I feel about Canon in D. I was massively strapped for time this week (and will be again this coming week - but if you happen to live in the SW of Victoria, email me) and didn't know what to do. So I used some software I've been working on in Max to do a granular rearrangement of my Movement Study #1; each grain is 25ms long. I have a phasor~ problem to get playback speed for the grains correct, but it's otherwise nearly there. But I cranked that up and got this neat percussion thing. I suspect that what we are hearing is at least partly the aliasing that 2d.wave~ provides.
Then dropped the output into Live and made a literal canon out of it. It's Canon in P(iano), but thought that everyone needs an obnoxious title at least once in their WeeklyBeat career.
Onwards, upwards, comrades.
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