electro-classical

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started: sometime in december • finished: jul. 1, 2021

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Day #3 with my new all-in-one synth, this time I ran out of tracks and had to record something manually, I wish I could be entirely Dawless, but I'll have to add some extra Harddisk Recorder or something.

Everything except drums were used here, double the analog synth as well.

Roland JD-Xi

Lonely Meadows

Radio Juicy presents "Mars Blues", the first single from Northern California composer/pianist Telemakus incredible forthcoming LP “The New Heritage”. The track sees Telemakus taking a step into a new artistic beginning, representing a grand entrance to the lush world he's crafted. Featuring a strong 70s jazz funk incluence, the music is psychedelic and evocative, pulling the listener in with his striking sense of harmony and arrangement. Pentatonic clavinet riffs, intricate drum grooves, and transitions of dancing melodies from a tenor sax all combine with a funky bassline to propel the groove forward. 

‘The New Heritage’ , out October 13th, represents Telemakus’ lineage growing up in the jazz scene, gigging locally in the Bay Area. Being a self-taught pianist, the artist has a unique gift for harmony which evidently translates into the LP’s tracks as a continuous flow of inspiration. Having found his own sound listening to the likes of Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, DJ Harrison, and Robert Glasper, Telemakus’ has developed a deeply personal style, as he likes to define it, “off-kilter and unique”. Having written and arranged all the album’s instrumental parts, Telemakus joins forces with a host of incredible musicians to paint a series of stunning soundscapes. This is a truly special body of work and we can't wait to unveil it over the coming months.

Artwork by Dohee Kwon
Instagram » https://www.instagram.com/kimchisuperpower/

Follow the artists:
Telemakus » https://www.instagram.com/telemakus/
Chino Corvalán » https://www.instagram.com/chinocorvalan/
Ted Taforo » https://www.instagram.com/tedtaforo/
Corydrums » https://www.instagram.com/corydrums/

Radio Juicy © 2021

PRE-ORDER VINYL

Telemakus - Mars Blues (feat. Chino Corvalán, Ted Taforo & Corydrums)

A little Game tune I threw together, got the idea when I made a from scratch loop on the Roland JD-Xi, but it became too complex for the little Roland, so I had to throw the rest of the tracks into Audacity.

Paranoid Parasite

J.S. Bach's fugue in C Sharp Minor from the Well Tempered Clavier book 1 reimagined in vocals using just intonation. Also new is legato and breathing. The only tools I used were csound, and vim.

Bach C# Minor Fugue in Just Intonation

All done with Wavestate 2.0, live. Also live track recording with my new toy "Portastudio" Tascam DP-32sd, that had a learning curve I can tell you, but thanks to a few youtube videos I finally got the hang of how the recording and on-the-fly editing works on this thing, just as wonderful as they said it would be.

Studio isn't done yet, I sat in my sofa today with the entire Multitrack recorder AND the wavestate, quite a mess. But I need to make furniture for all the synths, oh boy....

Well hope you enjoyed my first little experiment with Live Recording track-by-track.

Singularity

Submischief Brings a whole new energy to the electronic scene.   She has a passion for pushing the limits of sound and blending genres together to create her own style of HardDance; she calls Wubstyle.

Submischief Showcase 2022

I went mad on the MPC one afternoon, experimented with new functions and stuff I don't really grasp so this is the result, wasn't sure if I should upload it but better than just leaving it in the mixer. Might improve this track in the future. Just here "not to be forgotten" sort of.

Madness is imminent

Made this in 30 minutes before I went to bed a boring sunday night, it was thundering outside and I could not sleep. Only Akai MPC key 61 was used to make this tune, rythms and music all from scratch, nothing pre-programmed or edited, played on the fly.

Such A Weird Day

This track was written to demonstrate the harmonic possibilities of using higher harmonics freely whenever the composer wishes, without the bounds of a traditional scale, but within the bounds of major/minor/seventh harmony. It is also quite funky!

Harmonics of 11ths, 13th, 23rds etc are prominent in this composition, without being overwhelming in their unusualness. The highest prime harmonic used was the 127th harmonic in the final melody! E#''' was also used (125th harmonic)

It was written using a new notation system which has been devised to make accessing higher harmonics as intuitive as possible (it still takes a bit of getting one's head around!). Please contact me if you would like to see the score written in this notation system, or for details about how this notation system enables interesting harmonic composition outside of the bounds of the Western 12-note scale to be realised.

It qualifies for chiptune since although it is (much to my shame) 16-bit 44100Hz audio instead of the pure 8-bit, the sounds were synthesised from scratch using modified sin/saw waves, with a bit of band-limited noise thrown in for good measure. The synth took as input CSV 6xN matrices as sequence files, and processed in Octave/MATLAB to give MP3 output which you hear here.
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update 10th Apr 2015:

Here is a brief description of how the MP3 track was generated:

Just Intonation Notes (1/1 4/3 7/4 etc) <-> New Notation System (C F `Bb~7 etc) which is easier to read than pure numbers and where the letter corresponds (roughly) to the position in the 12ET scale
-> Excel block of chords and melody notes for visual presentation to composer (.txt)
-> Excel long (~1700 columns) of calculated note letters, frequencies, note lengths, etc
-> Excel final sequence file with 6 columns: channel, start time, frequency, note length, loudness, stereo position (.csv)
-> Octave/MATLAB code to take the 6 columns and turn them into chiptune (.mp3 or .wav)
-> Sometimes extra post processing in Audacity for final .wav

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See also:
- https://arxiv.org/a/ryan_d_1 (arXiv) for a list of my academic paper pre-prints, including my writing on music theory and Just Intonation
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4785-9766 (ORC ID) for my academic profile
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidryan59 for my LinkedIn profile

Sonata 1 'Cheery' - Chip Synth, Justly Intoned

A sketch in Superpyth[12], 6 steps down, on D. Tuned in 27edo.

Casey Hale's Album

More than three over two

10-tet Cadence (Nonuniform String)

This track has been created using an L-system, which is a type of fractal where large parts are comprised of smaller parts that look like reduced copies of the large parts.

As an example, a melody going up by a Just-Intonation perfect fifth (3/2 frequency ratio) could be comprised of three smaller copies going up 3/2, down 3/2, then up 3/2. This simple example would not be musically very interesting, however the idea is there.

In this particular track, the following mappings were used:

1 beat 1/1 --> 1/2 beat 4/3, then 1/8 beat 1/1, then 1/8 beat 9/8, then 1/4 beat 3/2 (inverted)
1 beat 3/2 --> 5/4, then 6/5 (both 1/2 beat)
1 beat 4/3 --> 10/9, then 6/5 (reversed)
1 beat 5/4 --> 9/8, then 10/9 (reversed)
1 beat 6/5 --> 4/3, then 10/9 (inverted)
1 beat 9/8 --> 1/1, then 9/8
1 beat 10/9 --> 1/1, then 10/9

Reversed means the smaller copy is played back in i) the reverse order and ii) the smaller copies are themselves reversed
Inverted means that the frequency shifts are inverted, e.g. f --> 1/f. So 10/9 inverted means ‘go down by 10/9’ or ‘shift by 9/10’

So an L-system melody has a set of melodies (in this case one each for 1/1, 3/2, 4/3, 5/4, 6/5, 9/8, 10/9) and each has its own set of ‘daughter’ melodies.

Each daughter has:
- an associated frequency shift
- a timescale, here they are all 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 beat
- optional inversion and reversing operations, giving 4 possible orientations in total.

Rules include
- product of daughter frequency shifts must equal parent frequency shift
- sum of daughter timescales must equal parent timescale of 1 beat
- continue iterating until maximum timescale of (iterated) daughters is 1/2^n.

In this particular track, the three parts were:
Bass: reference freq 100 Hz, max timescale 1/32
Alto: ref freq 200 Hz, max timescale 1/64
Treble ref freq 400 Hz, max timescale 1/128

This gave a 3 part invention! Due to the fractal melody/harmony, the different parts were consonant with each other.

One extra option is pre-tuning or post-tuning.
- Pre-tuning means ‘take the note frequency to be from the start of the fractal block’
- Post-tuning means ‘take the note frequency to be from the end of the block’

In this track, post-tuning was used, which means that at the end of blocks the tuning tends to be in 1:2:4 (octaves) ratio. Pre-tuning could just as easily be used, meaning that blocks start off on octaves and change to other chords during each block.

Enjoy! Dave

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See also:
- https://arxiv.org/a/ryan_d_1 (arXiv) for a list of my academic paper pre-prints, including my writing on music theory and Just Intonation
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4785-9766 (ORC ID) for my academic profile
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidryan59 for my LinkedIn profile

Example Just Intonation Fractal 3-part Invention

Made in Musescore. An lazy attempt at a just intonation rendering of the piece by Henry Purcell (The same selection used to open both the movie "A Clockwork Orange" and the videogame "Conker's Bad Fur Day").
The harmony is correct, but the root of each chord is taken from the equally tempered scale, instead of the multiples of the tonic. The G timpanum's pitch drifts to match the horns.

Just Intonation: Funeral March for Queen Mary

Psalm 100, to the tune Old 100th, at the beautiful wedding service of Mr & Mrs Chris and Alison Macleod. 

Psalm 100, Old 100th - Chris & Alison's Wedding

this is a drunken mistake
edit: this drunken mistake got a cyranek video now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCKIlrBBpNg

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hi i occasionally post bits of ""music"" here.
also anything labelled with another artist name is definitely by that artist, and not by me.

Just Intonation: Funeral March for Queen Mary

Polyglot1002

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