Here’s a little thing that maybe could be of interest on this topic.
For some time now I’ve been making collaborative tracks with a friend who goes under the name knobalchemist. We live in different places and only rarely meet (especially since COVID) so we came up with several processes that make creating tracks over the internet more fun and interesting.
Sometimes we borrow ideas from Junto, other times we come up with our own little musical games.
This one, I think, turned out pretty cool, so I’d like to share it here.
It’s based on a little thing we came up with @petesasqwax and @strider for one of the LCRPs. One which unfortunately we never ended up completing.
Basically the process was this:
- define 4 parts: rhythm, melody, tonal background and noise background
- define sections, like in a song structure
- define BPMs and a set of pitches/scale/tuning
- randomly assign parts to a musician for each section
- blindly create the parts, without knowing what the other will make.
- finally, put everything together and be surprised.
To make things easy I made this sort of score (repurposed from the one I had done for LCRP):
