January 2013

23/01/13

Sloth canons, Tune Smithy Fractal Tunes, and the connection with Per Nørgård's music

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One of the Tune Smithy fractal tunes - it is a sloth canon type melody - if you take every sixth note in the tune you get the original tune again

You get all the Tune Smithy fractal tunes as a bonus feature with the Pro metronome.

You may have seen the fractal tunes which you get in Bounce Metronome and Tune Smithy which are based on an endless strict sloth canon:: Fractal Tunes - hear your rhythms played with an endless continually changing melody line.It's a minor feature in Bounce naturally, since the focus is on rhythms, but it's actually the first of its features to be programmed. When I first wrote Tune Smithy in the late 1990s, it was to find a way to play these sloth canon type melodies on a computer - and Bounce originated as the polyrhythm metronome task in Tune Smithy..

So, anyway, I have just been told that the Danish composer Per Nørgård uses an endless self similar (fractal like) strict sloth canon structure in some of his compositions such as his Symphony number 2. He first discovered his sequence in 1959, so long before I got the idea of making sloth canon sequences for Tune Smithy.

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23/01/13

How Steady is Your Tempo? Can you keep a steady tempo for polyrhythms?

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Try 4:3 silent independently at different times in each rhythm 

 This is good fun, harder to do than it seems, latest of my "Go silent briefly" videos. You have to play in the pocket with the rhythm, and keep going through the silences, are you still in the pocket when the sound comes back on again? It should help with steadiness and independence and sensitivity to musical time. 

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09/01/13

Minor Update (January 9th 2013) - Bounce Metronome

This is a very minor update. Added option "Show decimal part of tempo in strip" in the More several times version of Set Tempo Dial Range, Tempo Names and Design (Ctrl + 252). Also has some minor bug fixes

See Change Log To update just get the lastest from the download page and install on top of the existing installation.