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Squaring the Circle
I remember reading an interview with Steve Howe in which he said that for a particular Yes track (can’t remember which one) he reckoned that he’d played every note on his guitar fretboard. This is my attempt to do the same… except…
I’m not Steve Howe and it’s not a guitar but you get my gist 😊
It turned out to be a trip around the Circle of Fifths.
Sounds from BeatHawk, Roli Melodies, Decent Samplers, DRCs, Mela 3, Rock Drummer and GeoShred.
Effects from TB Reverb, MixBox, FAC Alteza, Attack Softener, Velvet Machine and LRC7.
Played by ChordBuds, StepBud and GeoShred.
Everything mixed, recorded and played in one AUM session.
Comments
I can’t listen right now. But this deserves another pass across Page 1.
@McD you’re a gentleman, a scholar and (possibly) an acrobat 🙏
Very sweet track,
the drums coming in that late was a nice surprise
Beautiful piece. Reminds me a bit of Fripp and Eno, which I haven’t heard since college. Love your shredding! You have turned a sheet of glass into a legitimate musical instrument. You should give lessons. I really enjoy music built around a concept. In this case the Cycle of Fifths. I listened for that and thought I heard it backwards. I agree with @Pxlhg about the spoiler.
As I sit here on my back porch typing this, I am counting 3 police cars and two fire trucks driving up and down the street. I don’t see any smoke or psychotic dudes with guns. Something is up, though.
False alarm, thank God. My wife just talked to the cop. We will live to see another day.
Nice track, bro.
Ok… listened but no time for comment.
Your idea of playing all the available notes in some range got me thinking how I might approach that
“creative prompt”.
My thought would be to use the AUM keyboards “Hold” function and each note would get latched and colored on the keyboard so you could insure you “touch” every not between two end points.
Without and additional mechanisms you would test the “polyphony” limit of the target since a “hold” on every note touched would never send a “note off event” and the target app would continue to let every note “ring”/sustain until a note off is sent.
So, a Moziac script to add Note Offs for every incoming Note On with some random or fixed time interval might make sense.
The best question now is: would anyone want and use this AUM rig with a Mozaic script? Musically, this idea is a way to insure that no single “tonality” will surface in the music. This is an idea that Arnold Schoenberg formulated for his “12 Tone Theory” music but Arnold did NOT insist on NOT respecting notes and he only applied the idea to the individual instrumental melodic parts. As a result his resulting music still had traditional harmonic components like triads and such.
The Mozaic script would be a few lines max but adding extra features would make sense… like a knob to control the delay value. A StreamByter script which would likely be a single line adding the delayed Note Off events. If someone wants to post either script I’m OK with that… some scripters can supply answers without any required testing to validate their answers.
Thanks @Pxlhg , glad you made it to the end 😊
Cheers @Paulieworld , I do treat GS and the glass just like a real instrument so I appreciate that you’ve commented on it.
Strangely I didn’t realise it was the circle of fifths until I started programming the sequence into Chord and Step Bud. I was lying in bed and worked out that the root had to be 7 semitones apart to be divisible into 12 without repeating (hope that makes sense) but hadn’t clocked that as the CoFs.
Glad nothing untoward happened, only disturbance here has been shit weather ❄️💨☔️
Be fascinating to hear where your musings might go @McD
I picked a PianoTeq8 harp and tried the AUM keyboard with the infinity (hold/latch) symbol on.
I kept pressing notes until all 3 octaves were covered. I liked large jumps like 5ths or greater.
Then I added an AudioLayer instrument with a sample the lasts about a second and added notes very slowly using the large intervals that create nice harmonic interactions.
I pumped the results through a massive reverb.
It’s not that compelling… I just love creating a sense of harmonic gravity so a note has a pull to it that leads my expectations. Destroying those moments creates sounds that just don’t take me on much of a journey.
Probably useful for someone else’s mental network of what music is about. For me it’s a lever for emotional release. There’s a physics to it that guides my choices and not an arbitrary scheme like not repeating a note. You piece does not follow these rules I suggested and it works pretty well to take me on a journey.
The selection of harmonious intervals helps suggest where the next note will land and the fact that no note repeats and that sense of no tonality is avoided.
Nice though exercise though.
Very impressive! You may not be Steve Howe but some of that piece really encapsulated his playing style. moving towards David Gilmour at the end. Well executed and the transitions between keys worked very well too.
You’re too kind Colin ( @AlterEgo_UK ) ☺️