Ink
For a song
A song called 12tonesMatrix, written and recorded on 2004. Programing, audio engineering, composition: almaelectronix.
"I used aleatoricism for composing this melody.
I first created 3 columns of random rythmic patterns, octaves and notes.
Using a dice I created the order of the notes and that was my Primary melody.
Then I assigned the contents of the columns to the notes of the primary melody and to all the melodic lines (that were "born" from it by moving a semi-tone higher for each line).
Eventually I had 12 melodic lines which I divided each one into four 3-note groups and randomly used them.
So it was more or less created out of both, randomness and order.
I knew what I wanted to do and the way to do it and just let the dice make some choices for me!
And thats the result. Check it out!
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Thank you for sparing time to visit www.almaelectronix.tk. This site was created through the necessity of "depositing" the artwork I have made since 1995. Here you can find information about me and my work on music and sound design. There will be a lot of new stuff coming up soon, available for demonstration and downloading.
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Noise - sound - music
Music is an art form in which the medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word music comes from the Greek mousikê (tekhnê) by way of the Latin musica. It is ultimately derived from mousa, the Greek word for muse. In ancient Greece, the word mousike was used to mean any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses. Later, in Rome, ars musica embraced poetry as well as instrument-oriented music. In the European Middle Ages, musica was part of the mathematical quadrivium: arithmetics, geometry, astronomy and musica. The concept of musica was split into three major kinds by the fifth century philosopher, Boethius: musica universalis, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis. Of those, only the last—musica instrumentalis—referred to music as performed sound.
Greek philosophers and ancient Indians defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to, but the opinion of the listener does not necessarily help music theorists formulate a precise definition of music. Like the notion that visual arts must be beautiful to behold, the tacit notion that music need be pleasant to listen to has been questioned.
20th-century composer John Cage was explicit that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound." According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, "the border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.… By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be, except that it is 'sound through time'."
The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.