LimpyLoo Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 1) the Xenakis Project of the Americas' YT channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCxQFRZv2khYKxDyueY-bKUA A bunch of brilliant people talking about algorithmic composition, data sonification, applying architectural concepts to music, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Herr Jan Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Ffs, had to delete 9 duplicate threads, chill out mang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LimpyLoo Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 Ffs, had to delete 9 duplicate threads, chill out mang. Dude, sorry...I didn't even notice it got posted because Tapatalk said basically "error unable to post" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 R Luke Dubois talking about 'data sonification': https://youtube.com/watch?v=vqvUt8jwEgo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 Great lecture about some of the awesome shit Bartok was up to: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3etlQaVG48E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 YT page of awesome inter-disciplinary music research group: https://youtube.com/user/CIRMMTvideo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 these look like some pretty cool links! will check them out when I have time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted November 6, 2016 Author Share Posted November 6, 2016 these look like some pretty cool links! will check them out when I have time! Yeah, I bump into cool musicology shit daily so I thought it'd be nice to have a place to share it More on the way, and of course feel free to add to the pile! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted November 6, 2016 Author Share Posted November 6, 2016 Bartok's Axis System: http://www.harmonicwheel.com/bartok_axes.pdf http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/vismath/lends/ch1.htm This right here is great shit to know Essentially, given a key center (e.g. C major), every note of the "chromatic set" serves a dominant, sub-dominant or tonic "function" So in C major: Tonic = C maj, Eb maj, Gb maj, A maj Sub-Dominant = F maj, Ab maj, B maj, D maj Dominant = G maj, Bb maj, Db maj, E maj So if you're sick of Diatonic Harmony, you could try cycling through "Tonic-Subdominant-Dominant" cadences using substitute changes from the Axis System So instead of C-F-G-C-F-G etc You could do (e.g.) C-Ab-E-A-F-Db-Gb-D-Bb And get the same sense of movement, albeit with different harmonic "colors" (Also works with minor chords, but requires some finessing to sound right) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted November 6, 2016 Author Share Posted November 6, 2016 "Individual at odds with Society" motifs in the music of Benjamin Britten: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qlEIQ1gK5jg (BB was gay in a time/place where it was illegal and heavily stigmatized) Again, great lecturer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted November 6, 2016 Author Share Posted November 6, 2016 And here's a sister concept to Bartok's Axis System... The Symmetrical Movement Concept: http://m-base.com/essays/symmetrical-movement-concept/ ("As above, so below") Basically, if you take a chunk of music (melodies, chords, whatever) and invert the directionality of all the intervals (up vs down) then you will get a different-yet-equally good chunk of music So with a melody like: C-E-G-B A-F-D-G-E If you invert the direction of the intervals (and start on the same note) you get: C-Ab-F-Db-Eb-Gb-Bb-F-Ab And if you wanna transpose it back to C, you get: B-G-E-C-D-F-A-E-G If you are looking for a fucking awesome way to develop your own tonal vocabulary, this is a an indispensable thing to know. You can apply it to entire songs, even. As an expertise I did it to the Beatles' "I Will", "Happy Birthday", and "Twinkle Twinkle" and the results were not only awesome, it sounded completely unlike the usual cliches everyone uses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted November 6, 2016 Author Share Posted November 6, 2016 (P.S. It is especially awesome on harmonic sequences/cadences, and completely retains its sense of movement) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted November 6, 2016 Author Share Posted November 6, 2016 Before he died, Messiaen wrote a massive treatise (~2100 pages) about how he approached composition. It has yet to receive an official translation, but luckily some poor music PhD student translated the first ~400 pages for his dissertation or thesis or whatever: https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/5762/9914415.PDF?sequence=1&isAllowed=y In the translated bits he talks about the Indian Classical approach to rhythm, how the (ancient) Greeks approached rhythm and scansion, birdsong, some harmonic ideas, and of course Jesus Christ our lord and savior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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