--- On Thu, 3/5/09, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] list issue To: "YOhannes" THIS_IS_POP@web.de Cc: pd-list@iem.at Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009, 5:39 PM On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, YOhannes wrote:
i like to apply more control on listlength, without specifying it, like i would have to with
[list-equalize].
now, depending on the devisor of 2, with my
master-sequence
of lets say 2000 (ms) i get lists with very small and
very big values.
for example: 15.625 1.95312 3.90625 1.95312 500 250 1000 31.25 62.5
7.8125 125
any ideas how to get smoother/smaller differences
between the list-items?
You can also split note durations using a 2:1 ratio (2/3 + 1/3) and/or using a 3:1 ratio (3/4 + 1/4). In "normal" music this tends to happen non-recursively, that is, you would rarely ever apply such a ratio on an interval is already 2/3 or 1/3 or 3/4 of something else. But if you are ok to randomise intervals by a plain shuffle, you aren't making "normal" music anyway, so, why worry.
There is music in 9/8 time-signature, and there is also music in 3/4 time-signature that has triplets inside it, but recent history has shown that people are a lot more tolerant to bottom-up rhythm construction than top-down: that is, if you take a 4/4 rhythm and split it twice in thirds, it's harder to get the mind into the beat than switch the beat to 3/4 and then split it in thirds, or just switch the whole beat to 9/8.
You can also find music in 5/4, 7/8, 11/8, 13/8, 15/8, and many combinations of those in the same tune, but you will rarely have anything be split in fifths.
Unless you happen to be listening to Carter, Cowell, Ferneyhough, Johnston, Nancarrow, or anyone who has ever happened to use a quintuplet (Chopin, Elvin Jones, maybe Al Pacino in "Heat")
-Jonathan
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