Month: November 2013

This is a piece scored for baritone guitars, finger pianos, flutes, and vibraphone. It uses a 12 note scale taken from 72-EDO.

Each instrument has a very wide variety of phrases it can play at any given moment, including the option to play another instrument’s phrase in unison. There are a wide variety of ways I can move from one mode to another, and back again. Some of the sliding is within the scale, some is from one mode of the scale to the next, or the previous. The length of the piece depends on some of the paths through the chosen phrases, but almost all take about four minutes. The tempo varies from slow to fast and back to very slow at the end. The rhythm is mostly two against three.

There is no particular melody, just triademonium in the hexads:

• D+sub E+sub
• B-neu C_sub
• A_min B-neu
• C_maj D_neu
• D_min E_min
• D+sub E+sub
• F+sup A_min
• D+sub E+sub

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There is more indeterminacy in this piece than most, so I’m having trouble picking the version I want to keep. Here are two iterations for your listening pleasure. There is no particular melody, just triademonium in the hexads:

• D+sub E+sub
• B-neu C_sub
• A_min B-neu
• C_maj D_neu
• D_min E_min
• D+sub E+sub
• F+sup A_min
• D+sub E+sub

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Or download here: Shews.

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This is a work in progress. I’ve made four versions at this point and will listen to see which one to keep. Here is the fifth pass through the algorithm with different degrees of randomness vs repetition. There is no particular melody, just triademonium in the hexads:

• D+sub E+sub
• B-neu C_sub
• A_min B-neu
• C_maj D_neu
• D_min E_min
• D+sub E+sub
• F+sup A_min
• D+sub E+sub

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This is a work in progress. Now each instrument can also play the other’s parts as well as its own. They move through these chords, spending a random amount of time in each:

• D+sub E+sub
• B-neu C_sub
• A_min B-neu
• C_maj D_neu
• D_min E_min
• D+sub E+sub
• F+sup A_min
• D+sub E+sub

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This is a work in progress. I’m going to need to radically reduce the complexity soon. I am now playing with the following triad combinations. I take two triads at a time, and then slip and slide from the first to the second and back, then the second to the third and back, and so on.

• D+sub E+sub
• B-neu C_sub
• A_min B-neu
• C_maj D_neu
• F_maj G_neu
• D+sub E+sub

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This is a work in progress. It uses the following chords for now:

• D+sub E+sub
• A+sup B_maj
• D+sub E+sub

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This is a work in progress, and today I’m just noodling around with finger piano, vibes, baritone guitar, and flutes. The title is an archaic spelling for “shows”.

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