reaktorplayer 4:06 pm on July 2, 2014
Tags: 20th century music, electroacoustic music ( 5 ), Electronic Music History ( 4 ), historic instrument ( 2 ), music composition ( 3 ), Russian Music ( 2 )

Generation Z : Forgotten History of the Soviet experimental Music of the Early 20th Century

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Exposition “Generation Z» devoted the forgotten history of the Soviet experimental music 1920-1930’s. It is part of the eponymous project Andrei Smirnov and Lubov Pchelkina dedicated generation committed in Russia in the early XX century grand turn in culture and arts.

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reaktorplayer 5:01 pm on November 30, 2013
Tags: 20th century music, Arvo Pärt, Classical Music ( 6 ), Music ( 167 ), Programming ( 28 )

Programming Arvo Pärt

Aesthetic Complexity

Tintinnabuli Mathematica is an experiment in programming Arvo Pärt’s tintinnabuli method of composition. The process has two stages. Firstly, a melodic part (or M-voice) is created by generating a string of notes and timings. Then harmonic tintinnabuli parts (T-voices) are generated by applying transformation rules to the melody.

To generate a melody, a program was written to select notes from a scale, which in this case is A natural minor, i.e. all the white notes on a piano starting from A. Two types of generative method are used: random selection and series based on integer sequences (e.g. the Fibonacci sequence or the series of prime numbers). The random methods include equal-weighted choice of pitch and duration which generates notes scattered all over the scale, and a random walk method which produces wandering melodies of close pitches, varying in closeness depending on the maximum size of interval. In the random walk method…

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