Hi Everyone,

yesterday, after completing my latest work, I felt the urge to experiment with it.

So I isolated the initial fragment of "Didja Get Any Onya" and overlapped it at the end of my piece.

I found the result quite surprising. Would you mind sharing with me your opinions? Thank you very much!

Eidon't DoThat

https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/onya-get-any-didja-xenochrazy-ii

#FrankZappa #Xenochrony #Grundgestalt

Onya Get Any Didja (Xenochrazy II), by Eidon

track by Eidon

Eidon

I've just completed a new generative piece this night. I called it "Voce" ("voice" in Italian). It's for xylophone, marimba, harp, percussion, and two controbasses.

...I must confess, I like it very much. Now I just hope you'll like it too 😄

https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/voce

#Jazz #Minimalism #Grundgestalt #GenerativeMusic

Voce, by Eidon

track by Eidon

Eidon

今晩、新しいジェネレイティブ作品を完成させたところです。Voce」(イタリア語で「声」)と名付けた。木琴、マリンバ、ハープ、パーカッション、そして2本のコントロバスのための作品だ。

...正直に言うと、とても気に入っています。今、私はちょうどあなたがそれを好きになってくれることを願っています😄。

https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/voce

#Jazz #Minimalism #Grundgestalt #GenerativeMusic

#ジャズ #ミニマリズム #グルンドゲシュタルト #再生音楽

Voce, by Eidon

track by Eidon

Eidon

I've just completed a new generative pîece this night. I called it "Voce" ("voice" in Italian). It's for xylophone, marimba, harp, percussion, and two controbasses.

...I must confess, I like it very much. Now I just hope you'll like it too 😄

https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/voce

#Jazz #Minimalism #Grundgestalt #GenerativeMusic

Voce, by Eidon

track by Eidon

Eidon

I've just completed a new generative piece this night. I called it "Voce" ("voice" in Italian). It's for xylophone, marimba, harp, percussion, and two controbasses.

...I must confess, I like it very much. Now I just hope you'll like it too 😄

https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/voce

#Jazz #Minimalism #Grundgestalt #GenerativeMusic

Voce, by Eidon

track by Eidon

Eidon

This track is dedicated to xylophone, marimba, and vibraphone player Ruth Underwood, sublime Mother of Inventions for a glorious decade of Zappa music (from 1968 to 1977).

It is available in lossless format at https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/ruth

#GenerativeMusic #Grundgestalt
#mastomusic
@jazzmusic
#jazz

Ruth, by Eidon

from the album My Little Grundgestalts

Eidon
フラグマー 1 ("Furaguma I"), by Eidon

from the album Ballet Mécanique

Eidon
フラグマー 1

This is “フラグマー 1” (“Furaguma I”), an algorithmic piece based on a compositional approach that I called Wohlgestaltete Komposition. It is a hybrid process, in which machine and man cooperate. In a nutshell:

  • I identify musical quanta that represent initial configurations for a game simulator.
  • When fed into the simulator, those “μQuanta” produce 3-voice music fragments. I select the μQuanta that produce fragments that I consider of interest, and I compose them together.
  • I consider the music emerging from the combined fragments, and I operate modifications in the order and quantity of μQuanta in order to accentuate musical aspects that enhance the overall musical quality (according to my own perception) and to dampen aspects that I consider detrimental to that subjective concept of quality.
  • I continue the process by disrupting the selected μQuanta by flipping / adding / subtracting certain elements. Those disruptions in some cases aim at producing more “balanced” initial configurations, such that the corresponding games and music fragments last longer. In some other cases they may be purely random.
  • I include the disrupted μQuanta in the ongoing compositional process, and continue to build up the “piece” until its overall shape and contents assume what I arbitrarily recognize as a unique “identity”.

I refer to the overall selection of μQuanta in a piece such as “Furaguma I” as to “the Grundgestalt of Furaguma I”.

In fact, the term “Wohlgestaltete” means “well-shaped”, but it’s actually a reference to the above process of selection of μQuanta that shape up the piece by defining its “basic form” — its Grundgestalt.

When time allows, I will write a paper describing the Wohlgestaltete Komposition. I would appreciate it very much if you would have suggestions regarding possible target journals. Thank you!

CreditsA curiosity

Comment about Mi 75 “One of the challenges in sorting out the fragments from Mi 75 is that the scriptorium seems to have a rather casual attitude to ruling – two pages of the same leaf can have different writing space, and the columns may be of different widths. Lat. fragm. 896, 1-4 are related to Mi 75 through initials, pigment and parchment, but differ in scribe, music scribe and format. Still, the scribe seems to be imitating the main scribe of Mi 75, and may therefore have collaborated on the same book.”

…and finally:

#μQuanta #WohlgestalteteKomposition. #Grundgestalt #GenerativeMusic #AlgorithmicComposition

Eidon / HeartQuake · GitLab

Simulates the HeartQuake game for a given number of cycles. Reports winners and ongoing games

GitLab
Questo brano si chiama "Ningyo", in Giapponese “人魚”. Letteralmente il termine significa “pesce umano”, ma viene spesso reso come “sirena”. Il Ningyo è uno degli Yōkai, le creature fantastiche del folklore giapponese. Avete presente i Kappa? Beh, stessa famiglia, per così dire; anche loro spiriti d'acqua. Il folklore giapponese mi piace molto; ultimamente ho letto un libro di S. Lafcadio Hearn chiamato “Nel Giappone Spettrale” con belle storie fantastiche alcune delle quali con Yōkai. Adesso poi sto leggendo un ottimo manga di Yoshitomi Akihito chiamato “Scuola Ningyo”, e quando ho creato questo #Grundgestalt ho subito immaginato le Ningyo con la loro danza acquatica al ritmo del mio brano. Beh, sognare si puo', vero?

Ningyo è un brano che è nato gradualmente. Ho prima creato una sezione puramente ritmica, basata su due kalimba, timpani, batteria e percussioni. Da questa prima sezione ho estratto la parte iniziale e quella finale del brano. Ho quindi aggiunto arpa e archi pizzicati ed ho estratto la parte centrale del brano. Il tutto è stato mixato in #xenocronia con due contrabbassi e un pianoforte, sempre ricavati dallo stesso "seme" del Grundgestalt.

Il dipinto nel video è "Una Sirena", di John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). Riproduzione fotografica di dipinto di pubblico dominio.
...Con un nome come Waterhouse il soggetto non sorprende ^_^

Se Ningyo ti piace, puoi ascoltarla o scaricarla in alta fedeltà dal mio #bandcamp all'indirizzo https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/ningyo
Ningyo 人魚, by Eidon

from the album My Little Grundgestalts

Eidon