Braided Rose
by SmokeyVW

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	elektronix said 108 days ago
	Very interesting! This has an one of a kind mood. Is this only Garageband? Or what software did you use? Nice stuff. A little spooky... Thank you very much for sharing! Greetings, Bernd

	SmokeyVW said 108 days ago
	. yes, GarageBand only. i used the Orchestra JamPack and a Boldt Trumpet (JL) thanks!

	SmokeyVW said 108 days ago
	. a duodecaphonic thank you Feter!

	SmokeyVW said 106 days ago
	. it all depends on what you're trying to do. my main interest here is composition. the sound is good enough in GB, and i got what i wanted in terms of production. thanks

	SmokeyVW said 106 days ago
	. since each row is 12 tones, i had the option of grouping notes into phrases that are in 3/4 or in 4/4. they are mixed in various ways here. one voice actually plays its row in 3/4 and in 4/4, and near the end it's fragmented so as to be heard in either time signature... thanks

	ednetmonkey said 107 days ago
	I agree The dawning of ? Very evocative. Nice one.

	SmokeyVW said 106 days ago
	. many thanks

	SmokeyVW said 106 days ago
	. the major/minor chords are a consequence of combining three rows under the constraint i gave the computer program. the program found about 1400 combinations of three rows with the required note-by-note chord relationships. i went through a bunch of them, and picked two nearly identical sets. they were modified by swapping chords until i got something that sounded nice to me. thanks!

	SmokeyVW said 106 days ago
	. thank you i'm glad you enjoyed this

	SmokeyVW said 106 days ago
	. won't ask more. thanks

SmokeyVW said 106 days ago

. this emerged from some experiments a few months ago in programming rows. i wanted to find something Schoenberg-like, but with no dissonances. of the 12! (factorial) possible rows, only around 1400 triples of them can be formed where each note forms only a major or minor chord. once you pick one row, you can still transform it by pair-wise swaps of the chords. there are lots of possibilities remaining in this space. thanks

SmokeyVW said 106 days ago

. you know that a row is a sequence of 12 tones such that each of the 12 chromatic tones is used once and only once. if i did it right, there are exactly the same number of notes totalled up in the entire song for each of the 12 pitches. that would give it no tonal center, and sound a lot like much of 20th century atonal music. i don't know if Hitchcock used a tonal music a lot. Lots of horror and space or sci-fi films did for sure. no idea if i actually did this correctly. the title is a silly pun: braided rows. thanks

	said 106 days ago
	Ha! You wascally Pythagorean you!

	SmokeyVW said 106 days ago
	. without computers, this would never have been written. i was "in the loop" in that i picked the pattern out of a slew of choices. and then i arranged it, assigned instruments and pacing and all that... i really enjoyed blending the orch instruments in each line to form the sounds here. i spent a lot of time on that. thanks

SmokeyVW said 7 days ago

. maybe you know the answer to this: you take a 12-tone row and fill out a 12x12 matrix where pitch is on one axis and time is on the other. the operations you mentioned are things like mirroring on the time axis (retrograde), mirroring on the pitch axis (inversion), or operations like swapping rows or columns. once i tried rotating the matrix or flipping it on the diagonal - which exchanges time and pitch - has any famous composer ever tried that? and what does it mean? :-) thanks!

	SmokeyVW said 15 days ago
	. two? cool. cool. thanks