Musical Composition Through Dissonance and Synthesis
Noah Vawter
Wed Jan 18, 01-05:00pm, Rm135 Media Lab E15
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
A computer music experiment...how it can be viewed as a series of varying levels of consonance and dissonance. Each of us will write a melody or brief song using only relative dissonance values- no notes!- and listen to each other's sequences.
I'll explain and demo a little about dissonance. I'll use software that generates sounds whose pitch is arbitrary, but dissonance level is very precise. Then, we'll all try melodies and software settings.
Expect a laid back, participatory atmosphere. If you can, bring your laptop so we can work in parallel. Expect to hear unusual music. If you're a musician, expect to return with unusual samples. If you really know what you're doing, write a synthesis method besides a melody. Maybe we will put up a page of our mp3s!
Web: http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/projects/DissonanceWorkshoppe/
Contact: Noah Vawter, E15-020c, (617) 230-5047, nvawter@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Noah T Vawter, nvawter@mit.edu
Latest update: 18-Jan-2006
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