30 Final boss

I really wanted to get a stronger result with risset rhythms, instead I've ended up with this god forsaken Franken-patch, but it is sort of doing what I want it to. In brief I did this:

- I dissected the glissando max for live patch from a few days ago away from ableton M4l in just standalone max.
- I broke up what was previously a poly~ object into multiple audio outs.
- Set each of the math operations controlling the poly~ object to receive audio input from multiple groove~ objects each playing the same buffer.
- Mapped the pitch math to control a sig~ object controlling play back speed of each groove.

I know that image doesn't really capture whats going on, but basically there are four copies of the maths operations each managing a seperate groove~. Their level is proportional to their tempo and pitch (the red patch lead) and they are all commencing at different tempi/pitch/loudness. The intent is to create an eternal accelerando.

I also used a drum break that was used in a demonstration of risset rhythms from Dan Stowel's Paper, this worked HEAPS better than jongly.aif

Have a listen here:


On Monday I'll be going through and commenting on everyone's stuff. Grats to all of you, you amazing people. Have a brilliant weekend!

Love,
Hakushu

last post: another phase experiment

You guys.

We did an amazing thing. I'm going to miss this. Part of me wants it to keep going... but I have some finals and doctoral apps to attend to! It's been nice ignoring those things and prioritizing creating!

I meant to make something nice and fun for my last post, here in Manhattan where it's the last hours of November, but instead I made a 3 hr long going out of phase thing, prompted by the ugly feelings I have when I look at photos of myself-- It's a state of mind, more than a piece, and it's not exactly a positive state of mind. It's called, "how i feel about my body," and I'm not quite satisfied with it, but it has some good moments, particularly the beginning, the minute starting at 2hrs:31min, and the long fade at the end.

I want to make a happier version of a long ambient-mood-tape!

So much love, and until next time,
Christine

Two Madrigals - last post

It's getting close to midnight on the 30th of November, here in New York. I've enjoyed this process so much, there's a part of me that wants to do it again right away, but that part of me is drunk with power and needs to go to bed for a while. Thank you all for making this webpage a pleasure to visit, and for producing so much excellent music. March 2018, anyone?

Last one

Congratulations everyone! I'm really blown away by what you've squeezed out of your brains and your other body parts that music comes from. The standard of work has been so high from everyone, it's left me feeling like there is a lot of good art out there (more now) and a lot left to be made. I am sad about bowing out for a week with my arm but happy to report it's feeling a lot better. I've been strengthening it and am getting pretty ripped tbh. Love to you all and I look forward to doing a thorough comb through/reminisce in the next few days.

Christine & Andrew combined jam

Here's a lil synth jam we cooked up this afternoon, while we were both really hungry and wanting to go eat dumplings. Tech by Andrew, Music by Christine

Audio Here

Andrew here... film scoring tropes

Greetings, it's Andrew (I left my computer at home, am spending the night at Christine's)
For my film scoring class, we had to 'compose' a piece, using virtual synths such as omnisphere, stylus rmx, absynth, and so on. He was pushing for a very generic sound, and I spent as little time as possible achieving it. (as you can see, I'm bitter - but I feel better after making a thing with Christine, to be uploaded shortly :) )

The scenario: Dystopic future, awaking despair.

Audio

29 Super slow phase music

Ok so I haven't researched whether or not this has been done before (I'm sure it has heaps!) but today I created a phase of jongly, where the two voices differ by 0.01 bpm :o

So after about 2.5 minutes (55 bars or a one bar loop), the music is one 256th note stretched away from its starting point.

The top voice is the original, and I've dragged bottom one to take about 12 miliseconds longer all together. I chose this difference as you are able hear the phase descend from a pitch into a rhythmic difference by the end of the recording.



Yeh!

Music for iced water

feat brain freeze

Fall, leaves

I love Brontë, not just because she wrote a poem that resonates with me so much she could've written it after a conversation with me, but for many other things too.

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; 

Lengthen night and shorten day; 

Every leaf speaks bliss to me 

Fluttering from the autumn tree. 

I shall smile when wreaths of snow 

Blossom where the rose should grow; 

I shall sing when night’s decay 

Ushers in a drearier day.

Emily Bront

Something we can all relate to

28 Pseudo Random Number Generation

Hello,

First up, apologies for not commenting for a little while, I plan on sitting down and go through the past couple of days of posts from everyone after this week is done. Everyone that I've skimmed through in the past week looks great, but I just haven't had the time to sit down and comment properly on something.

So today I did some maxing. From yesterday's pattern searching I needed a bit of chaos to balance things out. Playing a large amount of video games has always given me an interest in random number generation, so today I did a bit of reading a learning about how that works. This was a particularly useful video, and also an amazing maths related channel.



I had a go at making the middle square random number generator spoken about in this video. This is an interesting one because it "ends" depending on a seed. As you watch the numbers appear, they certainly look random, and the sequence of numbers can go on for a long time, but it is always finite. I set up the following numbers to output pitch, in a comparison to the ordinary max random object. Turns out they both sound pretty random :/
Check it out:

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It gets deeper but. Everyone understands the idea of randomness...but if randomness is traceable to a seed, is there anything in the universe truly random? Is the "seed" of the universe just the big bang? And which combination of random objects really does sound most like R2D2?

borrowing ideas

Hey everybody!

Tonight I experimented a bit with Alice's phase/loop situation! I don't know if this is in its final form. I sort of think it's the kind of audio that would be good in a museum setting, just a running loop while people are looking at visual art. I'll have to try doing this loop thing with the youtube vids also, rather than doing it myself. The benefit of doing it myself is that I can put one voice in one ear and the other in the other. ALSO I definitely should have used a nice mic and all that instead of just using my built-in.

If one day I become famous and then die I hope they have a museum retrospective with my writing desk, my fish drawings, selected poems/diaries/letters, my collection of analog telephones, some eccentric outfits I was known for, some handwritten manuscripts, etc. in it, and I hope they'll put this audio in it.

I thought it would eventually line up like at the beginning again, but I think I was mistaken because an hour's worth of loops later and it gets so close! But isn't quite lined up. Which is kind of beautiful in a way.

Here's the text I wrote for this:

"It’s not that I miss it exactly, but that I miss the time then, the old paths I walked, the dry leaves underfoot, the cutting of the wind. I miss the wind-tears on my cheeks, I miss the cold smell of Northern winter. The smell of wet pine by the lake. The library in February. Maybe I noticed the sun more then. I never notice it now. The way I was, the way I wore my hair, the way I dressed, the way I gestured with my hands. The timbre of my voice, a timbre that’s lost to me now. The utterances I reached for, which were different from the ones I reach for now. The thoughts I thought. The inhalations, exhalations, excitations of then, so different from now. So distant from now. Becoming distant, and distant, and distant again with every day."

There is no frigate like a book - for Soprano and Piano

Another little song, this time with noodley free-chosen vowels

There is no Frigate like a book,
to take us Lands away.
Nor any Coursers, like a Page
of Prancing Poetry.
This Traverse, may the poorest take
without Oppress or Toll.
How frugal is the Chariot,
that bears the Human Soul.

Emily Dickinson

27 Larger scale polyrhtyhm slides

Hello everyone, last few days now!

Today's project was to start conceptualising how I could develop a piece out of the idea of polyrhythmic sliding that I was playing around with in the second or first week of MoM. This is just going to be a post discussing some of the ideas I explored today.

Conception:
The idea is two voices begin in a polyrhythmic relationship such as 3:2. Expressed in terms of tempo, such as 120bpm:80bpm, one of the voices accelerates to a tempo to create a new polyrhtyhm relationship. A blurred metric modulation. For example, the 120bpm voice might accelerate 200bpm from the previous scenario to make a new polyrhythm of 5:2 (200bpm:80bpm).

Process determining form:
I'm attracted to a sort of Reich/minimal approach for composing this. I aim to determine patterns of moving between tempo ratios from integers 1-5 that lets the piece unfold logically. It's quite easy to make and compare polyrhythms on ableton. I just set up two midi tracks with different subdivision of a quarter note in each. The logical unfolding I'm hoping will emerge through experimenting with different polyrhtyhms by triggering them in Ableton's clip view. This set up will also allow me to experiment and compare different pitch ideas. For now I'm keeping pitch to arbitrary scalic patterns in opposite directions to help distinguish the voices.

Slide time:
What's not so easy is determining the length of time for an accelerando between tempi. I prefer slow accelerandi that are similar sonically to Reich's acoustic phases. Making these resolve perfectly to a specific second tempo is tricky in itself, but the process gets messy when you have pitch.

After a good couple of hours experimenting and developing a couple of accels between voices. I'm going to leave this project for today and think about something different I'll work on tomorrow.

Peace,
Kurt

Glass Insects

Every MoM I always seem to have something about glass/clear things/tiny things/insects. Glass is such a constant source of inspiration to me. Or an obsession. Some might remember Electrical Glass Ants Put On A Concert from March, made from recordings of Hyung Suk's noble performance of the cruel original.

Well this month's instalment is an Infinity for Dinner version that you can almost taste. I'm really chuffed with how it turned out. If you go through the trek of ticking loop on every video, it's worth it I think.

Also quite nice to listen to at the same time as EGAPOAC, I just realised.

Sorry for lack of browsing your work, friends. I am planning a binge tomorrow.

Love,
Alice

Motet for Sylvia

I've had this music/words combo in my head since May. This is a little motet on a line from one of Sylvia Plath's early poems, found in a letter. I'd like to write some more secular motets like this on Sylvia Plath texts. She wrote some beautiful things in her diary and her letters.

In Memoriam for Soprano and Piano

Today I've got another little morsel for voice and piano, this time for soprano, because who isn't in love with at least one soprano, am I right?

Sad piece:

Score:



Audio:

26 Rainy Morning Melody Reharm

Alice suggested earlier in the month I reharmonise her composition from Day 4, "Rainy  Morning Melody". had a crack at that today. I'd accidently copied the B natural in bar 7 as an A natural...and well fuck I also ended the melody on the wrong note.... Urgh... Sorry Alice :( Hope you dig the different take on it!!

Stille Nacht

A last-minute arrangement for my m8s down in canberra.

25 synthz

I was going to work on something a little closer related to my tempo/max/live stuff, but this was a little aside for me. I'm so into this high energy 140+bpm hyper pop madness from this artist in the US called Louis Cole.


It's like techno meets punk or something, especially from the solo at 2:40.

I just had a play around with some ideas and ran with some some pretty out melody/solo stuff towards the end. I just put a heap of stuff down, didn't really consolidate what I liked and didn't like from it.

antarctic toothfish!

ETA: Updated the midi, which I discovered was 20 ticks slower than I actually wanted! Audio's fixed now!

Antarctic Toothfish is done! Check out the score and midi!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wQ3kGpFxiiRSZle7I4GZO1h4dF5n00nr

Here's that fishy face again. I'll draw at some point also.

[Quick telephone update: my device arrived and works but my prettiest telephone doesn't! (only my weird jokey telephone works. I may start collecting telephones). Fingers crossed that serious non-jokey phone arriving on Tuesday from Amazon works!]

Piano Phase

I had some friends over and served Comfort Music in my room and then this new one on two screens with two speakers, but I made this to show the two together.

I wish the images didn't end up so close together - I'm gonna reformat this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xYrF7J8CkA

Keen to dive back in, mates <3

Vastness of Pines - String Quartet No.4

I've finished the legwork on my other string quartet, the one for four violins. It has a few structural issues I think... but I'll iron those out tomorrow morning. As ever, I'd love to hear what you all think - particularly about the transition into the less tonal material in the centre. I PARTIcularly hate the midi sound on this one, as I wish so dearly to hear those emotional violins...

Score & Audio here

Because I owe him a debt, here's the Neruda:

Ah vastness of pines, murmur of waves breaking,
slow play of lights, solitary bell,
twilight falling in your eyes, toy doll,
earth-shell, in whom the earth sings!

In you the rivers sing and my soul flees in them
as you desire, and you send it where you will.
Aim my road on your bow of hope
and in a frenzy I will flee my flock of arrows.

On all sides I see your waist of fog,
and your silence hunts down my afflicted hours;
my kisses anchor, and my moist desire nests
in your arms of transparent stone.

Ah your mysterious voice that love tolls and darkens
in the resonant and dying evening!
Thus in the deep hours I have seen, over the fields,
the ears of wheat tolling in the mouth of the wind

telephones

so I'm a little obsessed with telephones. I built a very crapulous lo-fi extremely-breakable telephone installation in 2013-2014 and have wanted to do SOMETHING with telephones ever since.

and one of my pieces right now is a piece for an old telephone. I'm so happy and excited. I'm working with this amazing percussionist to use the telephone and its beautiful mechanical ringer as a percussion instrument.

So I maybe didn't compose much today in the traditional sense, HOWEVER!

I did research telephone options and eventually ordered a device that will hopefully enable the telephone piece of my dreams??

Fingers crossed, friends. Tomorrow, more fishes.

Circus Project

Hi MoMers - I’m Katie, a viola player from Perth at school with Andrew and Christine in New York. I love what you’ve got going on here. Andrew and I were chatting about a project that I’ve got in the pipeline and he suggested I could reach out to see if anyone is interested to jump on board…

I’m in the early stages of collaborating with a NYC circus performer called Craig. We’re going to put together a small crew to create a show – lots of aerials… silks/rope/lyra plus handstands, etc.

I think we have the potential to do something really powerful – the idea we’d like to focus on is the synthesis between aural and visual. The process of organising sound – from composition to the physical movements of playing – is at the forefront of our discussions of narrative. Using evolution as the fundamental theme we are considering ideas like shifting from black and white to colour over the course of the entire performance (including projections on the walls?) and dissolving the division between performers and audience.

As far as music goes, I’d love make a soundtrack that leaves space for free improv and deliberate silence between new and old compositions. I have viola and electric 5-string violin (with loop pedal and possibly effects if I can get my hands on one). I have a percussionist in mind, and open to suggestions for other instruments but I’d like to keep it to a small group.

You can probably tell this is more a long-term project for us, but I’d love to hear if it sparks some interest.

24 Harmony on accel with steady tempo

Trying to go a bit further with hearing different tempi and assigning them harmony as they progress at different speeds...work in progress. Please excuse trap beat its 3:45am here in syd.

a fish sketch

Antarctic toothfish

I have a few idea cells that I'm playing with at the moment:

Midi here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IOKMRFkDpgbdZ0Svj-2Ix-qE2XqsQhtF

Onward fish!

Madrigal - Eggcetera

Eggs



 audio here

23 Accel Decel

I've been thinking about how we perceive an accelerando whilst hearing a rit in another voice, maybe some kind of tempo counterpoint. Swapping pitches when the tempo changes direction seems to really helped outline the phrases and gives them a definite start and finish.

22 Max For Live-ing

Acquired a stash of new max for live plugins and just spent time working through them. I set up a short aleatoric piece with many randomly determined sonic aspects.

from the homestead....

Andrew and I are in New Jersey with my folks for Thanksgiving! We've both had recordings recently, so here they are.

Mine's from a recent concert with some badass string players.

Andrew says: Here's an excerpt from a workshop. Limited time, they couldn't get it up to speed, but here is the first section. (Gotta acknowledge the Taikoz debt)

link: http://christineelisechen.com/2017/11/22/recordings-mom2017/

password: Thanksgiving

21 Mo' shepard tones/risset rhythms

So in trying to get better max algorithms for risset rhythms (rithms?) I went through the Max for live database of objects searching for anything and found this INSNSSANNANNEEE one. I just had to share it here.

Shepard Tones are the "eternal glissando illusion" where the pitch and dynamic of different voices are precisely calculated so that they appear to rise forevs. Basically your ear tracks one voice rising thats fading out, and as a lower rising pitch fades in your ear thinks they are the same voice so you just hear one "rising" voice

Here's a little video that shows whats going on, using the piano part of my quintuplet groove thing I did a few days ago.



SO YOU CAN JUST DO THIS TO ANY AUDIO IN LIVE NOW HOLY CRAP!!!1!!
I think its pretty amazing that it works for any audio example, I tried a whole heap of different stuff and the results were excellent. Also it's an audio effect too (not an instrument or midi thing), so yeh, it can be applied in realtime to an instrument in performance, obviously the instrument would have to be amplified but yeh. That's really torn me a new one today.

My plan is to basically lift all the creator of this patch's maths and apply it to a sig~ controlling a groove~. The deal with risset rhythms is they create an eternal accelerando by mapping tempo to dynamics. Hopefully I can use some of this insane programming to make a similar patch for a risset rhythm.

device can be downloaded here: http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device/477/fp-glissando

in-progress string quartet for violins

Amongst my deadlines this month is another quartet, following the one I finished a few days ago. This is the first five pages - this music seems to be flowing a lot better for me. I don't know if it's because it's more simple or, because it's for four violins, if it's because I have lower expectations for myself, but it's more fun this time... I'll check back in at the end to see if it stayed that way!

orchestral thesis second post

I said I'd make a post about the first movement!

It is noise, so no midi.

I'm still trying to figure out the best way to notate this. I think I've found a good way. Maybe if I don't say what's supposed to happen and just show the score, you guys can tell me if it makes sense or no.

I couldn't get the images to upload to this site, so it's an external link again, I'm afraid.

Link: http://christineelisechen.com/2017/11/21/orchestral-thesis-second-post/

Password: MoM2017

20 Accelerations in nature

Edit: crazy, I thought this one went through when I was hanging with Alice today...hmm
Didn't get around to posting this yesterday, but finished putting something together today for it. I'm trying find some ways of getting video in jitter to respond to to movement. This one was a bit of a failed attempt at making video in jitter output data based motion to change Ableton's operator. I didn't really get the desired result...but neverthelesss it looks cool?!

Daggertooth

Technically in the US it's another day, so another post!

I made some time to work on my fish movement by working during class! Lol.

This fish is called daggertooth. I drew it:

He is both menacing and silly. The daggertooth fish will stab you with his daggerteeth. But still he is a flopsy-fish, a fish-friend.

Score and midi link: http://christineelisechen.com/2017/11/21/daggertooth/

password: MoMNovember2017

Elegiac Suite - for Flute

I've had the time to finish up the Elegiac Suite, which I was posting here as a piece for Cor Anglais. I redid it as a flute piece, basically because I know a lot more flute players than Cor players, but the music is so simple it really will work for any wind instrument (bring on your kazoos)

Elegiac Suite:

Score and Audio here: dropbox

Can ya catch all the quotations? The Schumann one is, in my opinion, the most shameless - but if you all don't find it, I'll feel better about its inclusion.

hi friends! orchestral thesis

My schedule has been pretty prohibitive of composition lately. :( It means that things are taking longer to write than usual, because I have less time to work on them. I really wanted to finish a short movement of my fish piece and share it with you guys here!!! Soon. Over Thanksgiving break I hope to post up a storm of fishes!!!

I've had to de-prioritize fishes to work on the MSM orchestral thesis.

I thought I would share the second movement with you guys, while I'm doing all of this editorial stuff! I'll share about the first movement on my next post-- it's a bit of a different animal, and takes some explaining.

Here's the link to midi mock up and score: https://christineelisechen.com/2017/11/20/orchestral-thesis-for-mom-november-2017/

The password: MoM2017

Much love to everybody!

Canons for String Quartet

Here is a piece that I needed MoM to finish. This piece was a commission from AYO, for use in their chamber music programs - such a cool project, as I have many many fond memories of playing chamber music at camp! That being said, I've accidentally (like always though, so is it accidental?) written something quite difficult, so good LUCK to whichever quartet gets this in the mail.

Canons for String Quartet

Score and Audio here

15 second harp

If you don't know what 15 second harp is, check it out! Olivia is a lovely person and a great harpist, and currently is soliciting 15-second-long duets for harp and tuba. Today's MoM is also my 15sH.

19 Simple Phaser

Hey! After reading Alice's post, I thought it might be useful to make something that you can quickly hear a phase with, so I threw this together on Max tonight. It's got one of the Max samples loaded into it, so it should just be good to go as soon as you hit the toggle and turn on the audio.

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Day 18: Idea

Hey guys,

Over the last two days my right arm's been really bad. Even with left-handed computer use, I can't really get to a point where it's not sympathetically tensing. Like a back-seat driver, used to being dominant, ya know. Anyway I am terrified of RSI and the damage it may do to my output in the long run. I think I just need to take the pressure off with a few things,  including MoM, for a few days and try and hardly use the computer/piano/phone/pen at all.

Heres an idea for a piece though. A simple chord progression played in hushed, sustained semi-quavers on piano (Vatche?), recorded three times, the player with a click thats a few bpm different to the last for each recording. And with eternal repeats, they would go more and more out of phase in the actual phase way. By no means an original idea, but I'm excited to experiment with the chords bleeding into each other.

Finally, Happy Birthday Christine, you aquatic burst of light.

18 Longer phrases for precise ritardando

Hey,
So today was just a bit of an experiment. I normally work with polytempo structures inside of short phrases of like a bar or two, but today I thought I'd play around with a 64 note rit.

The steeper the curve the more dramatic the rit (right slows down at a faster rate):

I didn't have a great deal of time to put anything too musical together on it, So I just stacked all 11 of these 8 bar ritardando on top of each other to hear what it sounded it like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Have a great weekend :)