Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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A-B-A 24-tone and cell based composition for roland integra-7 synthesizer. I took all notes in the chromatic scale twice and shuffled them in a random order using a computer program, giving a "melody" of 24 randomly ordered pitches: 'd', 'b', 'e', 'b', 'g', 'g#', 'f#', 'd#', 'a', 'a#', 'c', 'g','f', 'c#', 'a#', 'e', 'd', 'd#', 'c', 'g#', 'f#', 'f', 'a', 'c#'. Using this ordered random series, I composed a 24-chord long chord progression (one chord for each note in the sequence, but the note can be located in any voice, so I'm further relaxing the constraints than in the previous 12-tone based compositions). Then I treated each chord in the progression like a short "cell" which I embellished with extra notes, and made each cell repeat a few times. In the B-part, things get a little less conventional. The cells then are "spiced up" to create something that sounds a bit more adventurous. This is my third "Accents" piece, and quite different from the previous two (in music style, in instrumentation and in compositional techniques used). Both the cell performance and music notation are generated using Marc Evanstein's SCAMP (Suite for Computer-Assisted Music in Python), the result of his 2019 master thesis. More information here: scamp.marcevanstein.com
Thumbnail picture made from: pixy.org/4741110
Background video from: Free Motion Graphics (video: youtu.be/uLhPSFyuhbE ; channel: youtube.com/MG1010 )
The computer code for this piece can be found here: github.com/shimpe/accents3
(Note: the accents are not discernible in the audio because in my infinite wisdom at the last moment I replaced acoustic instrument sounds with synthesizer voices that were configured not to respond to velocity changes, however I'm so late to finish this piece I cannot change it anymore without missing my own deadline :)). Warning: don't listen twice in a row, or chances are you won't be able to get it out of your head for the rest of the day ;)