In both movements of this quartet, each instrument gets assigned a repeating rhythmic pattern—sequences of notes and rests of equal length (say, all eighth notes). 

The first violin plays a pattern of 11 beats (6 notes, 5 rests), the second violin a 7-beat pattern (4 notes, 3 rests), the viola 6 (3+3), and the cello 5 (3+2). These patterns cycle independently.

One full cycle  takes 2310 beats—the least common multiple of 11, 7, 6, and 5.

But—crucially—beat durations vary.

Indeed, the duration of a beat depends on its density—meaning how many instruments are sounding at that moment (0 through 4). Each density appears a fixed number of times within the full cycle, independent of pattern contents assuming the constraints above. 

The twist: beat durations get adjusted so that each density—whether a silence, solo, duo, trio, or a full quartet—occupies exactly one-fifth of the total time of the movement. Rare textures are stretched, common ones compressed.

Thus the interaction of the parts effects an emergent large-scale rhythm.

Out of millions of possible combinations of patterns, one movement employs the set that yields the most unpredictable overall rhythm (in a precisely defined mathematical sense). The other, the most predictable.

As for pitch: each instrument traces a fragment of the cycle of fifths—in near standard tuning. The quartet plays 17TET, so with the octave divided into 17 equal steps, which makes a "perfect" fifth span 10 steps. Each instrument repeatedly travels through this cycle fragment, alternating between octaves. Individually, the lines sound diatonic; together, they form unfamiliar and highly dissonant verticalities—often stranger than even the most dissonant music in 12-tone systems.

Despite this microtonality, no specialized technique is required. If each player tunes their instrument to a slightly different “A,” then standard fingerings suffice—as long as they resist the instinct to tune to one another.

Waves, Winds, Mind - Mvt. I

Flower in Asphalt (2013).

At Fontanepromenade there is sunlight all the time
There’s this will to be weird, there’s this sentimental line
Sky Saxon on the radio, hippie boats on Spree
Freak flags flying high, there’s this will to be free
And to dive and to float and to be
In the universal eye of fantasy

At Fontanepromenade there is Marilyn in the nude
There are seven colored bottles, there’s a pusher in my tube
Lava lamps are glowing, the vinyl is spinning fast
Like a pirate retransmission drawn directly from the past
In her love in her song in her hips
There’s the universal truth of city kids

At Fontanepromenade there is magic of the spheres
There is Crowley on the shelf, there’s Blavatsky in the wings
There’s a TV show from Saturn airing interviews with death
Like Zeppelins in Bohemia like a dragon on my back
Flying low catching up leaving Earth
In the universal eye of neverwere

At Fontanepromenade there’s a devil in my shoes
Devastating all the neons saying “Woman I Love You”
He’s got tired of the parks, all the parks they let him down
With their cans of beer a plenty with the scent of bubblegum
In his mouth in his ears in his hands
Lies the universal truth of nowhere man

At Fontanepromenade there are mirrors on the floor
There’s a bathroom full of glue, there’s dementia in the walls
I’ve been cut eleven times by all these mirrors cracking up
Then I took an elevator to the bottom of my cup
In the fuzz in the bliss in the pines
In the universal eye of Father Time

At Fontanepromenade the whole universe is on fire
There’s a galaxy of thieves, constellations of desire
Like pictures of Christine, her typewriter’s unaware
Rewrite Arabic poems, there’s this need to miscompare
And to rest and to sleep and to hide
In the secret depths of universal eye

At Fontanepromenade there’s a circus and a zoo
There are twenty-seven whores and they all are much like you
There’s Yahowha 13 on the melting TV screen
There are Stooges in the cupboard and I’m feeling pretty mean
While you dance and you turn and you twirl
In the universal truth of a girl

Fontanepromenade

At the Beginning (And In The End)

This is a track from a few years ago.  I recently remixed it with some new parts.  This song is why I think I have ADHD.   

You may know the title from the sound a teenager makes once they've figured out they know everything. 

lyrix:

woah!
ahhh ahh
scheau
scheau
crazy
i like parties 
scheau
lol
scheau
ohhh ohhh oh oh ohhh
(shamanic chants)
scheau x2
oh goddamn
crazy

Scheau

Human Ground (Earth) – KAT x Lou
Rooted in stillness, the pulse of being.

Earth hums quietly beneath the noise,
solid, ancient, forgiving.
A piece that carries both gravity and grace.

Created in collaboration with Lou (@louie_e), whose earthy guitar tone meets my lyrical breath  - 
a dialogue between soil and sky.
Part of the Element Series, this collaboration rests on grounded sound and poetic resonance.

The cover image traces back to my Tribe Painting, created in the deserts of Mexico during a shamanic journey, a circle of life, soil, and song.

Human Ground (Earth)

why was 6 afraid of seven and why was seven afraid of 6
cause 67 is over rated
-Tidus

Will it be weird? Or even too weird? Yes.
But just trust us on this one, not only will you begin to take root in this sound soil but you will grow such a fantastic idea. It may be something so fantastically wonderful! This sound soil is packed with dirty nutrients for growing minds! That's what the headache means.

Stylophone Beats, most Stylophone Gen X-2 and post recording piano : Mitchell 

Bowie stylophone, most in recording piano and sneezing: Tidus

Tidus and Mitchell: In recording Piano and Stylophone Gen X-2 

Seven Do 8 eat 9 ( >_< )

chemical research

At the end of the year and with winter approaching, the night wraps us in its magical aura. Nature offers us its beauty if we take the time to observe it.


En cette fin d'année et à l'approche de l'hiver, la nuit nous enveloppe de son aura magique. La nature nous offre sa beauté s'il on prend le temps de l'observer.

Nuit étoilée

dark time

Corrina

Composer, mathematician, visual artist. 
Seeks collaboration with performers and choreographers.

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Waves, Winds, Mind - Mvt. I

David Victor Feldman