[PD] list issue

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, YOhannes wrote:

> i like to apply more control on listlength, without
> specifying it, like i would have to with [list-equalize].
> now, depending on the devisor of 2, with my master-sequence
> of lets say 2000 (ms) i get lists with very small and very big values.
> for example:
> 15.625 1.95312 3.90625 1.95312 500 250 1000 31.25 62.5 7.8125 125
> any ideas how to get smoother/smaller differences between the list-items?

You can also split note durations using a 2:1 ratio (2/3 + 1/3) and/or 
using a 3:1 ratio (3/4 + 1/4). In "normal" music this tends to happen 
non-recursively, that is, you would rarely ever apply such a ratio on an 
interval is already 2/3 or 1/3 or 3/4 of something else. But if you are ok 
to randomise intervals by a plain shuffle, you aren't making "normal" 
music anyway, so, why worry.

There is music in 9/8 time-signature, and there is also music in 3/4 
time-signature that has triplets inside it, but recent history has shown 
that people are a lot more tolerant to bottom-up rhythm construction than 
top-down: that is, if you take a 4/4 rhythm and split it twice in thirds, 
it's harder to get the mind into the beat than switch the beat to 3/4 and 
then split it in thirds, or just switch the whole beat to 9/8.

You can also find music in 5/4, 7/8, 11/8, 13/8, 15/8, and many 
combinations of those in the same tune, but you will rarely have anything 
be split in fifths.

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