Melody improvisation

Creations & Ideas
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classical music, indies stuff from 80s and 90s etc.
Some dissonance stuff : sonic youth as example also Chopin, Debussy, Fauré.
but not boogie :slight_smile: (the video sound looks fine to me, even if not "my cup of tea " :slight_smile: ) and mainly western music
I don’t know if these details feed the topic… :slight_smile:

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Double Hmmmmmm !
If the tempered version of my piece still sounds
’ off ’ to you then ???
Maybe someone will chime in with some insight .
AND I will reconsider my ’ score ’ …

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I also find that piece of code very ‘off’… dissonant. out of tune
screeches nails on blackboard

Eli…

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Triple Hmmmmm …

######## A Study in Honky Tonk ##########

a=[18,27,18,30,18,32,18,30]
b=[18,27,18,30,18,33,18,30]
c=[55,62,55,64,55,65,55,64]

loop do
  
  for i in 0..7; puts "just intonation"
    play hz_to_midi(11*a[i]), release: 2
  sleep 0.5; end; sleep 1
  
  for i in 0..7; puts "equal tempered"
    play hz_to_midi(11*a[i]).round, release: 2
  sleep 0.5; end; sleep 1
  
  for i in 0..7; puts "just hitswares folly"
    play hz_to_midi(11*b[i]), release: 2
  sleep 0.5; end; sleep 1
  
  for i in 0..7; puts "tempered hitswares folly"
    play hz_to_midi(11*b[i]).round, release: 2
  sleep 0.5; end; sleep 1
  
  for i in 0..7; puts "official midi numbers"
    play c[i], release: 2
  sleep 0.5; end; sleep 1
  
end
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I like that.

Over there at Lines there is an thread about microtonal music. It is an interesting and challenging idea that you could say we are somehow spoiled by the tyranny of the well-tempered tuning in western musical culture.

And this is my currently favorite example how microtonality works really well in popular music.

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yes but boogie music is not oriental or indian music ? Boogie seems to be a western music no ?
ps : Listening to Daniel Johnston is awesome too and often “off”.

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cool stuff not off at all for this style of music.

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yes but boogie music is not oriental or indian music ?

Right .

Boogie seems to be a western music no ?

Yes. Some ’ blues ’ intervals could possibly be construed as ’ off ’ though .
Try ’ Purple Haze ’ ( Jimi Hendrix ) compared to Vivaldi : )

ps : Listening to Daniel Johnston is awesome too and often “off”.

Thank You … Hadn ’ t heard him … Reminds me of early Bob Dylan .

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Wow! As a newb and not a musician that was quite the class. Thanks maestro.

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I’ve been looking all over the internet for music and melody generation.

Music Theory I know little about but I wonder how hard it would be to program something like this.

Not necessarily in sonic pi. But something that I could use to generate notes heck even hard code it to parse for copy in paste into sonic pi.

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You might be interested in my current project then.

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