#22

I devised an encoding from text to music (melody and rhythm). I encoded my wife’s name and found the melody to be quite spooky (as you might expect for a chromatic type encoding). Also she likes Halloween so it seemed fairly appropriate. I voiced the same notes into some chords which I plays underneath. Finally I added a drone underneath to try and round things out.

The main melody was played on my digital piano then the midi arranged. The strings were from the Peak and the bass station for drone. A delay and a reverb were added from my 500 series pedals followed by my usual master chain. A fairly simple arrangement but it seemed to fit the mood.

In retrospect I think I’d have picked a different encoding to result in something a little more conventional. In that case I’d probably have made something with a slightly less “horror movie” vibe. Either way, another fun project: Thanks!

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#23

I chose Numerology Pro as the DAW because it allows notes to be entered numerically into its sequencers. I created one sequence each using my spouse’s first, middle, and last names, using the bog-standard encoding: A=1, B=2, etc.

Based on her initials, I determined that the appropriate scale for this piece should be Wythoff (3-1) Scale C Left from the Proliferating Infinities Scale Catalog.

The percussion track has no connection whatsoever to my spouse’s name, using 7/4 MIDI drum loops from OddGrooves placed over a 4/4 time signature, with one of Numerology’s stock drum kits.

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#24

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/geimryk-disquiet0454

The inspiration for this piece comes from “Ingrid” by Klara Lewis.

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#25

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

C C#D D# E F F# G G# A A# B

A B. C. D. E F G H. I. J. K. L

M N. O. P. Q R S. T. U. V. W. X

Y. Z

F# G. E. D. G C C# G#. D C C G D C#

The above shows the method I used for assigning notes to letters. My wife’s first name forms the chord progression for the A section and our last name for the B. Once I had the sequence down I took a fairly conventional approach to synthwave in Gadget. The biggest challenge for me was playing around with the rhythms until I found something that worked with the chromatic notes.

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#26

@DetritusTabuIII

Sounds like your life is full of surprises.

@NorthWoods

Always bubbling along?

@sevenism

Those intervals are huge and kinda unsettling. Hope you’re okay.

@Richard_Townsend

Is your partner’s name Melody?

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#27

Six 26-step polyrhythms representing my best friend (and wife)'s name. Each rhythm, from HorNet’s HATEFISh RhyGenerator, drives a separate note being played by separate Xils 3 LE VST synth instances. No other instruments are used. Some of the tracks are passed through AudioThing’s Valves filter and automated. There is also a hint of Valhalla Supermassive and Eventide ShimmerVerb.

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#28

I chose my partner’s name. Letters A-G stayed as the are and then all others just counted up through the 12 notes of our system. I felt like some arpegiating would work well then played the names on the flute too. A couple of unusual notes add a quirky flavour that is appropriate.
Thank you all.

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#29

For my entry this week I used the ‘French’ method of generating cryptograms where the alphabet essentially wraps around to fit the diatonic notes A-G. It turned out to be a simple 3 note progression with some variations.

Marbles>Rings>Clouds = Voice 1 (lower voice)
Yarns>Surface>Qpas>Mimeophon = Voice 2
Marbles>Plaits>Ripples = Voice 3
Output>BigSky>Interface

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#30

The name of the beloved is encoded in the track with multiple clues, and multiple coding systems. All on the modular using USTA to make the polyrhythmic code. Drums via Analog Rytm. A bit longer than I wanted, but that’s how long it took the nested loops to finish their complete cycle.
This was fun!

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#31

This is my first one of these; not sure how I missed it before, but I’m grateful for the impetus to write something. I started at the end, spelling out the letters of my wife’s name in MIDI, and then used a few different letter-to-pitch mappings from there, working backward toward the beginning. I’d written something a lot more complex, but last night decided to start over with something simple.

https://soundcloud.com/wagneric/20200914-j-sdrawkcab

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#32

I encoded my the letters of my wife’s first and last names as 0-25 and did a modulo 12 to get pitches:
C D G Bb Ab Ab D F Bb B Bb G E A A E
I used these pitches as bass notes and added 3 additional voices over them for some harmony. I ended up with some sorta gnarly chords but I think I managed to make everything sound “musical” in the end. The recording process:
Digitakt -> midi to CV -> Eurorack -> reverb -> zoom h4n -> computer for trimming the ends and normalizing levels

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#33

Instead of a name, I encoded two messages in my song. The first message fades to the second, as they didn’t really mesh all that well musically. I added some simple drums and a strange drone to fill out the space.

Recorded from my eurorack directly, with some slight adjustments done in audacity afterward.

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#34

Hey Yasha, Really dug your track so I tried something with it. Thanks for making it available. Hugh

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#35

So, this assignment prompted an Idea that I wasn’t able to execute until recently. For the sake of re-balancing the mental scale, I feel obligated to stick a post here very belatedly…

Anyway, I mapped the alphabet onto an F-major scale and then “played” a certain name on our out-of-tune piano (with a bass root for meter…). Then improvised some retro-ish synthesizer on top.

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