Pseudo Boulez dodecaphonic music

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Hello! Just for fun, a kind of boulez piece of piano composed in a “pseudo” dodecaphonic way. In fact, I do exactly the contrary oh this dodecaphonic music where each note is defined by a strict mathematic way of composing music: the serie (is it the right word in english? :face_with_monocle:):
Each note of this modest piece of music is generated by chance as well as different parameters. It’s the paradox of course of this dodecaphonic (with Boulez or Webern for instance) music to give the impression of being written at random!

use_bpm 80

#right hand

a =rrand(0.1, 1)
b =rrand(0.1, 4)

with_fx :reverb, mix: 0.8 do
  use_synth :piano
  live_loop :randy do
    play rrand_i(30, 100), attack: 0.01, release: b, amp: 1.5
    sleep rrand(0.075, 2)
  end
  
  #left hand 
  use_synth :piano
  live_loop :randy2 do
    play rrand_i(20, 100),attack: a, release: b
    play rrand_i(20, 100),attack: a, release: b
    play rrand_i(20, 100),attack: a, release: b
    sleep rrand(0.125, 2)
  end
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Hi
this is fun, and sounds fairly convincing too. I recall when I first encoutered Boulez’ music, my immediate reaction was “random noise”. I still prefer the hyper Romantic atonality of pre-serial Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Britten. Gotta have a melody, right?

Early 20cy Western music is a minefield :wink:

PD-Pi

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Hello Brendan @brendanmac ! Thank you for the compliment while being aware that it’s a kind of joke about serial composers that ultimately lacks a bit of respect… But I completely agree with you, having as a musicologist particularly studied and admired this exceptional period of the history of music through “free atonality” in Webern, Shoenberg and Berg… Now the real challenge would be to make “real” twelve-tone or serial music with Sonic Pi! :disguised_face: