Choice of music

Tackling my schezophonia project head – on without dividing it into sub-pieces can get too messy. I will go through it in a divide and conquer manner. This means that I divide a seemingly complecated task into a series of “simple” parts.

First things first let’s go through my thought process for the music.

Needs

The piece of music needs to fulfill a number of conditions. Namely:

• Be soothing to me
• Be famous enough to have online support from the open source community
• Have a wealth of usable musical information

Possible contenders

Schubert’s Ave Maria

This piece is soothing to me. I believe it’s famous because I hear it in most settings: movies, series, concerts…

It has well formed and exact chords.

A problem I found with this is that it has a christian background. When discussing the revolution in Lebanon it’s not suitable. One of the points of the revolution is the secular nature of a technocratic regime being put forward.

Bach’s cello suite No 1 in G major

Looking for something that I have a history of listening to and I get soothing from is relatively easy. The hard part is ensuring that it fulfills the other conditions.

This Piece is really famous. I stumbled upon it in most my violin/Music theory/Music harmony classes.

The basis of this piece is the multitudes of chords arranged in arpeggios.

So far so good.

2 problems came up:

• I can only download the recording as an MP4 file. so I won’t be able to input it to a DSP software.
• I am using Yo-Yo ma’s performance. This artist is well-known for his freedom in the rhythm used. So sampling will become harder.

Conclusion

The choice of music is done, I need to find alternative recordings