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Partita for Chance and Recorded Piano by gregd [Email]
Genre: Experimental

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Last Played: Aug 16, 2008 - 11:19:24 AM
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Uploaded: Jun 19, 2008 - 01:59:17 AM
Last Updated: Jun 19, 2008 - 02:42:58 AM
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Description:
This is a suite of pieces for processed piano recordings. Each time the computer plays the Logic Express file, the "performance" is unique because the program uses bounded random-number generators to process the piano recordings. Hope you enjoy.

Lyrics:
none.

Hardware:
Powerbook G4

Software:
Logic 7, Audacity
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Very interesting... &mdash 06/19/08 - 05:19:03 PM
It becomes VERY minimalistic this way, almost naive or "naked" in a sense. I like it. but I don't know why. :)

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Thanks Mikkinylund &mdash 06/28/08 - 12:00:20 PM
Interesting observations. I wrote the music such that each iteration of the chords has a slightly different melody line, but after the computer processes the music those differences could get erased or altered.

Cheers,
-greg

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Abstract piano &mdash 07/12/08 - 01:08:56 AM
Fascinating. Digital prepared piano. If John Cage could have gotten a hold of a DAW he might of created something like this. Did you also randomize the reverb effect?

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The 'Verb . . . &mdash 07/12/08 - 03:40:27 PM
is a delay line granulator that is a bounded randomly controlled program, and many of it's inputs are random to an extent.

It'd have been a great day to see John Cage using Pro Tools or Logic. There's a story of him hounding the Bell Labs to get a long printed list of random numbers for him to use in his compositions. If only he'd had his own computer and random number generator....


Thanks for listening.
-g

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French toast &mdash 08/16/08 - 11:21:00 AM
was here .

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