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Starkly Patterned Ursine Mechanica

By kineticturtle on July 6, 2014 3:09 pm

This is my Weekly Retrograde #1. This piece is a sister piece to week 26's "Pandatron 2000"
http://weeklybeats.com/#/kineticturtle/music/pandatron-2000

The primary lyrical line in Pandatron 2000 is nearly a 12-tone row (which, briefly, is a sequence of notes which uses all 12 pitch values of the traditional European/Western chromatic scale), missing only 3 notes. I completed the 12-tone row as such:

Using the second option in that image, I composed this very short piece for flute and piano, and shipped it off to my friend and bandmate Meerenai Shim to record it, which she and her Australian friend Jacob did with immense skill in very short order!


Download this sheet music: https://www.dropbox.com/s/998guailjzoa14y/panda%2012%20tone%20-%202014-07-06.pdf

The 12-tone row is used not only to generate the flute part (in prime and retrograde forms), but also to define the movement of the piano chord clusters in many places.

Credits to the recording:
Meerenai Shim: flute
Jacob Abela: piano

Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)

Nice. Going pro with the performers!

OH man, this is freakin' awesome. Lovely to hear some music like this! Beautiful. And pretty good playing too. Nice clean notation also. Well done! +fav for certains.

Very impressive. Way to transcend genres and apparently distance, too!

wow, great job. As a person who has no formal musical education i can't help but admire such work.

ditto

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