[PD] software license for pd general patch?

colet.patrice at free.fr colet.patrice at free.fr
Thu Aug 5 15:48:12 CEST 2010


Selon Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>:

>
> forgot to answer this one...
>
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, patko wrote:
>
> > If the rythm is played like every step with no accent, no one would make
> > a difference between 11:8 , 4:4, 7:16 ...
>
> I always thought of the metric as something that happens not only with
> rythmic patterns, but also with melodic patterns. I mean that the melody
> is making another kind of rhythm. Usually, the bars are aligned with
> changes of chords and scales : the frequency and phase of the bars is
> chosen to most closely match the greatest number of chords and scales.
> That's a lot of the reason why plain 4/4 rock music is written with strong
> 2nd and 4th beats, instead of shifting the whole bar system by one beat
> just so that the strong beats be numbered 1st and 3rd.
>

 That is right, in fact any of the five musical parameters (tune, tone, volume,
space, length) could be modulated for giving a metric, even different metrics at
the same time.

> > In fact even in a simple 4:4 bar, the need for a variable metronome is
> > quite necessary for orchestras. Different sections don't play their
> > parts at the same tempo, if you pay attention to it, technicaly a
> > section would play better if the tempo is slower or higher for different
> > parts, that's why there is conductor.
>
> I don't believe that... I mean, for pieces that don't make explicit use of
> battements.
>
> I always thought that a large part of the reason why the conductor is
> there, is because on a large stage, if musicians only listen to each
> other, they will be out of phase due to sound propagation delays, and if
> we are to be picky about it, then we need a guy in the middle to sync the
> whole thing in a non-auditive manner. (Of course, a conductor does a lot
> more than that, but that's not what I say).
>
> (If the stage is 15 metres across, the latency between one musician at one
> end and one musician at the other end is about 44 ms...)
>


 If I have understood the main discussion, it is about using a metronome,
admitting that each stand has an earphone that play a metronome, there would be
no latency taken into account, we could even reduce latency that would come from
the percussions that are always at the backside of those kinds of orchestras.


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