[PD] list issue

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 5 22:52:05 CET 2009





--- On Thu, 3/5/09, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] list issue
> To: "YOhannes" <THIS_IS_POP at web.de>
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009, 5:39 PM
> 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.

Unless you happen to be listening to Carter, Cowell, Ferneyhough, Johnston, Nancarrow, or anyone who has ever happened to use a quintuplet (Chopin, Elvin Jones, maybe Al Pacino in "Heat")

-Jonathan

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