Project 2 – CAEL2041: The Art of Sound and Noise

Project 2: Instrument/Instrumental

For the second project, I took a different logic than the first one. This time, the development and implementation was multi-dimensional. Let’s start: Development Project statement This project will begin by expanding and interrogating the idea of an instrument Project 2 statement This expansion and interrogation may or may not fit the classical definition ofContinue reading “Project 2: Instrument/Instrumental”

Random ‘is it going up or down?’ paradox

So I showed a static, one note implementation of this paradox. What if it starts with random notes this time? This is a post that explores just that. base note The idea here is to choose a random note to start with. I can accomplish this with: l= rrand(20,60) octaves Too get the midi numbersContinue reading “Random ‘is it going up or down?’ paradox”

Octaves

I have been looking at my old violin videos and I saw a performance that leverages the ‘is it going up or down?’ paradox. In this Video I play “tsunami – KVBBS and Borgeous”. The original notation The first notes of this sequence should be: What I played I actually made a change in notationContinue reading “Octaves”

Tritone paradox revisited (again)

So what I have been finding when I search the tritone paradox or shepard tones is a set of two different paradoxes that are different. I will permit myself to call them my own names. Ever-increasing pitch paradox The Ever-increasing pitch paradox is the aural paradox where you feel that tones are ever increasing inContinue reading “Tritone paradox revisited (again)”

Tritones

This video by Adam Neely illustrates perfectly the point that I am making with a tritone. He articulates the idea that a tritone is not necessarily ‘The Devil’s note’.. The meaning added to tritones by humans In his video Adam Neely makes a big number of points. One of these points being that the tritoneContinue reading “Tritones”

Tritone Paradox revisited

Now that I’ve coded the basic idea of how the paradox works, I am looking to fine tune the code to make the sounds smoother. For the effect to work best, I should set the synth to a sine wave. Three extra octaves Adding these octaves would make the switch between octaves smoother. To addContinue reading “Tritone Paradox revisited”

The ever increasing paradox with three tritone pairs

I used Sonic pi to implement the tritone paradox in Sonic PI. Tritone paradox This is the paradox where 2 tones played at the same time and separated by half an octave seem to be ascending to some listeners and descending to others. Some people question the seemingly infinite rise or descent. Process Like manyContinue reading “The ever increasing paradox with three tritone pairs”

Summary post

This is a summary post of what I did so far for the project 2: Instrument-instrumental. As of May 7 I started by exploring the project definition here: https://caelsyd.school.blog/2020/05/02/project-2-instrument-instrumental/ I explain why I chose to base my project on keyboards as an instrument: https://caelsyd.school.blog/2020/05/02/the-importance-of-my-keyboard-now-more-than-ever/ i introduce Sonic Pi by Sam Aaron here: https://caelsyd.school.blog/2020/05/02/sonic-pi-and-sam-aaron/ I getContinue reading “Summary post”

N’TO – Clé des Champs

I used my strategy to code some of Clé des Champs. This is the track Code: use_bpm 113 chords = [(chord :Bb, :minor), (chord :F, :major)].ring c = chords[0] # take the first chord of the ring and save it to a variable s=1 live_loop :ambiant do sync :rhythm use_octave -2 use_synth :dtri play_pattern c,Continue reading “N’TO – Clé des Champs”

Sonic Pi strategy

Between yesterday and today, I have been experimenting with Sonic Pi to make a nice strategy for the pieces. My initial plan is to emulate a band and it components. Rhythm Just like any band has a mutual timekeeper. I included a virtual one. This module throws in a cue every beat that different componentsContinue reading “Sonic Pi strategy”