In Mist

Frolicsome

An old demo from one of my songs I wrote in 2019...

Don't Blame Yourself [Demo]

Lost Cello (Excerpt)

Make Believe

mixd

Presenting the "Fate of Georgie Porgie"
Everything is not always as it seems

Produced in the ARAPA Music Studio
Sydney Australia

Fate Of Georgie Porgie

Native American

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco

Nightfall

Stepping On My Shadow

Walking by four-note chords.

This work can be considered a continuation (or a second track of the same album) of one of my previous works "Parsimonious Trichords".
This is the case since in the elaboration of its harmonies I have followed the same line of work but taking one more step in the current work. In the harmony of the two works I have used the Tonnetz. This comes from the German term "Tonnetzwerk" which means network of tones. The prototypical case is the one that is formed by the major and minor chords (of three notes) organized in such a way that those that are contiguous only differ by a single note (with only a semitone or tone of difference) and on this network we can go chaining the chords following different itineraries or paths thus defining the harmonic progression. In the work "Parsimonious Trichords" I used this Tonnetz with three-note chords. The present work tries to go a step further and use four-note chords to define the Tonnetz. To achieve this I have applied the ideas developed by Dmitri Tymoczko in his excellent article "The Generalized Tonnetz" (dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/tonnetzes.pdf). The objective will be the same: to get a network that organizes the chords (in this case of four notes) in such a way that those that are contiguous continue to be differentiated by a single note. In this case, to achieve this, it is necessary to use 12 chords of dominant seventh, 12 chords of half-diminished seventh, 12 chords of minor seventh and 6 chords of French sixth. To achieve To achieve the harmonic progression, on this network of chords I have defined 7 itineraries (one for each part of the work) of the so-called Hamiltonians, which means that they go through all 42 Tonnetz chords once and only once. As can be assumed, the chord succession that is achieved is also very parsimonious in the sense that there is very little variation between a chord and the one that follows it.

The work of creating the Tonnetz of four-note chords and as well as the elaboration of the itineraries I have done it by programming a series of algorithms in Python language.

Regarding the rhythmic aspect of the work, I have used an archetype: the rhythmic "motif of the walker" (half, quarter, quarter) for two reasons: one, which is quite evident, to reinforce the concept of itinerary or path and the other as a small tribute to the recently published book "Paisajes del Romanticismo musical" by the composer and theorist Benet Casablancas since it is one of the many characteristics that he analyzes about the music of the Romantic period.

For all these reasons, the exhaustive title of this work could have been "Walking through the Hamiltonian itineraries of the graph (of minimal variation) of four-note chords." which I have not dared to use for obvious reasons.

Regarding the interpretation, it should be said that it is done through NotePerformer playback engine.
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Traducción de esta introducción al castellano:

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Walking by four-note chords

Over the Mountain - Robert Grigg & Combstead

One of the most critical and yet most undervalued members of The Faces, Ronnie Lane collaborated with both Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood to write most of their all-time favorite hits. This was one of them. Here's my take on it, vinyl edition...

Debris

Norrisette is a grungy ethereal art-pop artist based in Manchester, UK. Her songs are about everything from heartbreak to climate change, with comedy and surrealism along the way.

Norrisette started out as a composer, then a bedroom producer, and now finally has her own band. Since her first gig at Deaf Institute in 2021, she has performed sets at Bluedot, Sounds From the Other City, and Manchester International Festival, and has supported artists such as Anna Meredith, Ezekiel, ((( O ))) and Haru Nemuri. 

Together with Industries, Norrisette set up FLUFF, a regular night for queer electronic music artists in Manchester. FLUFF has been mentioned in The Guardian, and has received support from Manchester Pride and Factory International.

One of Norrisette's self-produced tracks, Wild Being, was described by BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson as an 'electronic noise fest'. Norrisette has recently started collaborating with Ashley Garrod on bass, Jack March on guitar and production, and Imogen Shortall on drums. She still composes music for others under her original name.