Here’s another version that introduces much more variety of texture. On top of the Markov Chain process, there’s the chance that a note will be silent regardless of all the chains at work. In this version, the odds are as much as 75% that a note will sound, to as low as 56% or then 37%. That leaves a more sparse landscape for much of the piece. The keys are at the edges of the list of available keys, and wrap-arounds make the changes more strange than usual.
The list:
Cn-Maj
Ab-Maj
Fn-Maj
D+-Maj
A+-Maj
F+-Maj
E--Maj
Db-Maj
Fn-Min
A--Min
Cn-Min
D+-Min
Gn-Min
B--Min
Db-Min
Eb-Min
The choices:
Cn-maj
Eb-min
Db-min
Eb-min
Db-min
Gn-min
Eb-min
F+-maj
F+-maj
F+-maj
E--maj
Db-maj
E--maj
F+-maj
A+-maj
F+-maj
A+-maj
F+-maj
E--maj
Db-maj
E--maj
E--maj
E--maj
Db-maj
Db-maj
E--maj
Db-maj
E--maj
F+-maj
E--maj
Db-maj
E--maj
Db-maj
Fn-min
Db-maj
Fn-min
The bulk of the time it’s in E- Major, Db Major, and F+ Major. All at the far reaches of the diamond.
I should mention that Castilleja miniata is the latin name for the common paintbrush, responsible in part for the proliferation of colors on the mountains up here.
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Castilleja – Deep Water #9b
