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Steps by SmokeyVW [Email]
Genre: Classical

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Last Played: Nov 19, 2008 - 10:40:10 AM
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Uploaded: Jul 25, 2006 - 07:51:24 PM
Last Updated: Sep 19, 2008 - 12:09:42 PM
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Description:
album: Plankton
track 1: 5:26 Drop
track 2: 4:46 Ocean Lady
track 3: 4:48 L'Heure Bleue
track 4: 3:31 Sink Into The Sea
track 5: 6:08 Steps
track 6: 6:36 Seven GHs
track 7: 2:32 Nautical Twilight
track 8: 12:48 See
...more albums...

Song Description

You continue to drift deeper, through thermoclinic layers of water, always towards your destination. You float weightlessly, no longer able to feel your body.

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This is a manually generated algorithmic work using GarageBand with the Orchestra JamPack.

The percussion track is built up of a sequence of different instruments with an increasing number of steps between each time an instrument is struck. The number of beats between steps range from one through five. Ignoring the sequence with a note on every beat, the remaining step pattern forms the beginning of the sieve of Eratosthenes: the sequence of beats when there is only one instrument struck forms the prime numbers. From there, I adjusted it a little to sound better.

The notes are roughly in exactly the order the instruments are found in the Orchestra Percussion Kit, with a few adjustments for aesthetics.

The harp is formed from two repeating overlapping groups. One group is 8 1/2 measures long, the other group is 11 measures long. So the resulting pattern of notes never repeats over the duration of the song. (It would eventually repeat if played long enough.)

The violins are formed in a similar way using 9 measures and 9 1/2 measures. So these never repeat.

And the cellos play a repeating pattern 10 measures long, along with the French horns the play a pattern 10 1/2 measures.

Overall, none of the repetition rates match up, so no part of the song is ever actually the same.

The parts don't play continuously throughout, they are cross faded.
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Original and well crafted &mdash 07/26/06 - 12:35:01 PM
I like the way this sounds. Exercises like you describe often come off
sounding stiff and artificial. This has a naturalness about it. Thanks for
posting it.

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Original and well crafted &mdash 07/26/06 - 03:06:58 PM
thank you very much. i try to capture emotions in sounds. i rarely succeed, but it
seems like maybe i did in this case.

i like to mix abstract patterns with art. there's something more meaningful
about it somehow. i mean, i enjoy the purely intuitive well crafted song, but if
there's also a mathematical (or some systematic) way to look at it, that's even
better! it lends a depth to it.

thanks!

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Wow &mdash 09/05/06 - 07:22:32 AM
Don't know what all that means, but I love the results.Great music.
Seamus
I am just a dumb engineer and artist,landscapes,seascapes.
I use music for the mood of my art

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re: Wow &mdash 09/05/06 - 04:59:13 PM
Seamus: thanks for the encouraging comment.

i hope this little work of mine helps you create something magnificent!


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,-) &mdash 09/15/06 - 10:06:33 AM
one word: MAGNIFIQUE!

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thanks &mdash 09/15/06 - 05:28:10 PM
wow! thank you

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