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scratch my last. i think that my usage of the term
"song oriented" is confusing. nic's suggestion does the trick
rather well. wait! 3-d n-space! so, imagine a cube
where (r = rhythmic quality) (h = harmonic quality) and (i
= instrument factor). this last will indicate how much of your
input or output sounds like a musical instruments (guitar, flute, drum) rather
than noise (bombs, helicopters, spoken words, attacking star fleets, ect.), with
the higher rating showing greater inclination towards "musical"
instrumentation.
(r = rhythmic quality)=1,2,3,4,5
(h = harmonic quality)=1,2,3,4,5
(i = instrument quality)=1,2,3,4,5
my latest project would be r=1, h=1, i=1
whereas my bouzouki project would be r=3, h=5,
i=4
i say i=4 because though my bouzouki still sounded like
some sort of stringed instrument, you couldn't really tell it was a
bouzouki.
i think that my next question will be "how many on
the list are math geeks?"
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:14
PM
Subject: Re: a general question
Might want to decouple tonality and rhythmicity - a two-dimensional grid
might work better. 1 through 5 for increasing degree of harmonic & tonal
content, A through E for increasing degree of rhythm orientation (with C being
rhythmic, E being song-oriented for example, if one can accept song-structure
as an extension of rhythm-structure).
I would be in 4-5C territory most of the time.
Nic
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:14
AM
Subject: Re: a general question
--- Lance Chance <lrc8918@louisiana.edu>
wrote:
> whoever cares to reply. you consider your loop
work:
>
> 1 totally ambient, atonal, arrhythmic
>
2
> 3 a little of both, some of both (rhythmic, but atonal) (atonal,
but
> rhythmic)
> 4
> 5 song oriented, rhythmic,
tonal
>
> i'm just curious. i do both. right
now i'm mainly working with some
> pretty freaky vocal stuff. a
"1" from above. however, i have done lots of
> guitar and
bouzouki work that was very "musical" or "song oriented".
i'm
> sure this question has been brought up before, but the list
changes all of
> the time. also: why do you do what you do and
what do you think of the
> other side of the coin?
The problem
is that there's a LOT of space between 3 and 5. Things that are
harmonic
and rhythemic, and yet, not "song oriented". Most of my looping
fits
somewhere in there. I don't plan out songs, it's freely improvised,
yet, it's not
atonal, and it generally develops a rhythm, but it never
ends up sounding like a
pop song, ABABCAB, or
whatever.
Greg
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