Generating Musical Phrases
After years of fiddling with algorithmic composition, I have come to reach for certain tools to craft melodies, bass-lines, solos, etc. My latest generative composition program and output will illustrate...
Imitating a Drum Circle
Ever been to the park and heard a tribe drumming in the distance? This is a drum circle.
Upon closer inspection, each drummer has a single instrument (or maybe a set of bongos).
Each drummer keeps a steady beat in common and in syncopation with his or her fellow drummers.
Imitating Steve Reich
Recently I was enjoying Steve Reich's "Octet" (Eight Lines) and became curious if I could mimic the simple, staccato phrases with which he starts off his piece.
tl;dr: reichify
Musical Ngrams Round II
What are "ngrams"? And how do they relate to music? Well ngrams are basically groups of tokens. These groups are of a certain given size - say phrases of three words. If we consider notes as tokens we get musical ngrams! We can count the number of occurrences of each ngram phrase, and thus know how many times a given phrase is repeated. How often does Bach repeat himself, for instance?
Ones vs Zeros in the Binary Primes
What does the graph look like when you convert each prime to binary and plot the ones versus the zeros?