Das Neunundneunzigmusikspiel Opus 1: Die Neue Weltanschauung For 4 to 9 performers Das Neunundneunzigmusikspiel (99 Music Game) is a cheeky little board game I invented for my Visual Music class as a way of executing a musical “score” consisting of a list of 99 words or phrases.  The game board, one six-sided die, a placeholder  [...]

This week’s assignment for Visual Music is to compose a drone music piece. My voice as the only sound source + La Monte Young + Björk’s Medúlla + Dangerously-close-to-Enya vocal overdubs, reverb, and delay + a lot of copy and paste =   Vocal Drone. Enjoy.

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Our assignment for week 3 of Visual Music with Zach Layton is to “take 12 tone piece & stretch it out with FFT, do spectral analysis, make it a new piece.” I opened up the AIFF of the 12 tone piece I composed last week in SPEAR.  Then I used SPEAR to drag different frequency [...]

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This week’s assignment in Visual Music with Zach Layton is to write a short twelve-tone piece for piano or electronics. Using the Sounding Stone Twelve-Tone Row Calculator, I generated a twelve-tone series based on A, D, and G. Prime: A D G at transposition 0 is A D G Inversion: A E B at transposition [...]

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