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Greg FoxDes Éléments (April 12, 2007)

A greedy reductionist approach to composition in which all musical phenomena are merely emergent properties of the system.

Each element is simply one sine wave of an arbitrary (and randomly derived) pitch sounded for an arbitrary (and randomly derived) period followed by an arbitrary (and randomly derived) period of silence.

The elements form a "construction kit" which can then be used to make music following the "Open Source Audio" model (for more see "Malhaus" by Greg Fox from 2006).

Constructed examples will be added to this collection for those people who don't want to compile their own pieces, and notes about these will be posted in the "notes" box below.


This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio

Artist/Composer: Greg Fox
Date: 2007-04-12
Keywords: greedy reductionism; dennett; consilience; memetics; blackmore; construction kit; malhaus; greg fox; sine wave; indeterminacy; random; computer music; aleatoric; aleatory; atomic; reductionism; Brights; experimental

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

Notes

Constructed Example 1: basically elements 1 to 21 raw, complex-looped for an hour. Bare notes left in the final mix were turned into silences.

Constructed Example 2: as above but for elements 22 to 42.

Constructed Example 3: the above two examples played simultaneously with some amplitude-sculpting.

Constructed Example 4: 24 of the longer elements only, with much cut&paste and some crude transposition treatment of the final mix.

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