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L-System

By tatecarson on August 16, 2014 3:22 am

This is a process tune. The melody and harmony are Midpoint Displacement Multifractal with L-System Chords. I can't really explain what that means exactly but its a fractal thing that makes really interesting music. I got the sequence here: http://www.tursiops.cc/fm/ . On top of the melody and harmony being process based the form is also. As you can hear the form starts with a small bit of the whole theme and then each time the theme is stated you hear more and more of it to give the feeling of a slow building of tension. The rest of it was just making this math equation groove and move.   

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Holy sheeze wth am i reading?
Do you have anymore similar theories and chords?

Very nice. I love it.

Mr Mort wrote:

Holy sheeze wth am i reading?
Do you have anymore similar theories and chords?


Can you be more specific? More information about what I did or more places that I used those techniques? I do stuff like this pretty often, this time was much more overt than usual.

... and I can't really explain what this does to me. Since it's a bit off my usual auditory habits i'm fascinated. And that's something i like a lot. Great work.

So is piece overall a generative piece.  Or are you manually expanding the main theme outwards etc?  An interesting piece regardless  smile

Really interesting reminds me allont of R Plus Seven by oneohtrix point never.

I love fractal music and have done it before, it's super fun to hear! thanks for working in this genre smile

rdomain wrote:

So is piece overall a generative piece.  Or are you manually expanding the main theme outwards etc?  An interesting piece regardless  smile


It is generative, in form, melody and harmony. Also, it's a jumping off point. I'm definitely expanding the material outwards, though the form is straight rule based. I was never really interested in the pieces that use generative processes with no editing, they're usually kind of boring. Hopefully that answers your question.

ConfettiTsunami wrote:

Really interesting reminds me allont of R Plus Seven by oneohtrix point never.


I love OPN but I never felt like a got the peaceful at the same time as chaos from another planet in the 80s vibe but i'm working on it. Really a huge influence, probably too much.


george bowles wrote:

I love fractal music and have done it before, it's super fun to hear! thanks for working in this genre smile


You're welcome! Fractals are the gift that keep on giving. If you haven't checked out Miles Okazaki please do. He got me into using fractals in a musical situation. He uses them to write jazz and plays over them, it's the most insanely difficult music i've seen and also proves that process music can have a lot of feeling and grove and still reflect the source material.

this is way cool!
L heart V E it!

makes me think of autechre peel sesh 2 era

thanks, i found his website will check it out!

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