Turning the assignment in early, for once, since I’m going to be away from home for a few days.
I took the first 64 digits of pi to produce the score.
I mapped the digits 1-5 to a Db pentatonic scale. Digits 6-0 were mapped an octave higher. This gave me an 8-bar phrase of 8th notes at a moderate tempo.
I created a second layer, mapping all digits to the same octave this time, and twice as slow. Then a third layer, four times as slow, and an octave lower. The first layer is played 4 times, the second one twice, and the third one only once. I added a three-bar intro playing a Gb, for the “3” before the decimal point, of course.
I selected three patches for Blamsoft’s Expanse synthesizer, EQ’d them to make sure they remained distinct, and assigned them to each layer. There’s a fair amount of reverb to give a sense of space. And that’s it!
