Rock Music by chaircrusher

Written and Recorded Spring 2024

I took the names for these tracks from a list of different rocks and minerals. Hence Rock Music.

The music itself is an exploration of using Euclidean rhythms to drive melodic sequences. The interesting thing about these rhythms is that many traditional folk drumming patterns from Africa are Euclidean.
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I misuse a Euclidean Rhythm Generator so that there's a single note value per pattern. So it's like a drum machine where instead of drum sounds it plays notes. I'm not aware of anyone else using this particular sequencing technique, but I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of it.

Euclidean Rhythms are simply where for a particular length of sequence, an algorithm spreads triggers evenly in that sequence. So when I have 16 or more Euclidean rhythms of uneven duration, the aggregate sequences are deterministic and repetitive, but they take a long time to repeat in a loop.

Subjectively as a listener you don't hear 16 different one note sequences playing together, it becomes a gestalt, encompassing both rhythym and melody. It is a form of phase music, where the music arises from the different note sequences shift phase against each other.

That's interesting to ME and other music nerds, but as a listener, it's its own thing. Repetitive in a way our ear latches onto the music, but continously changing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_rhythm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_music

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