Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Second cell-based composition, this time for strings. The rule now is that the longest fragment is repeated exactly 8 times, whereas all other voices keep playing their fragment until the longest voice finishes. As in the previous accents video, every player randomly accents notes.
The cells are composed by hand, executed by supercollider on a Roland integra-7. Supercollider unrolls the fragments and adds the accents randomly, although constrained to certain allowed moments in time (and these allowed moments in time change over the course of the piece).
Performance on real string instruments would be very challenging with the accents.
Second cell-based composition, this time for strings. The rule now is that the longest fragment is repeated exactly 8 times, whereas all other voices keep playing their fragment until the longest voice finishes. As in the previous accents video, every player randomly accents notes.
The cells are composed by hand, executed by supercollider on a Roland integra-7. Supercollider unrolls the fragments and adds the accents randomly, although constrained to certain allowed moments in time (and these allowed moments in time change over the course of the piece).
Performance on real string instruments would be very challenging with the accents.
![[Experimental] One chord requiem for virtual piano](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aUGN7PIJmts/mqdefault.jpg "[Experimental] One chord requiem for virtual piano
Some weeks ago, a 13 year-old took her own life after being bullied and physically assaulted inside and outside of school and harassed online. Literally everyone she reached out to for help (school, police and social media moderators) did literally nothing to help, in some cases brushing it off as not worthy of their time, culminating into tragedy. For some reason this news story hit hard and the way I feel most comfortable to deal with such news is to express it in sound.
In this experimental piece, I use a form of minimalism, repeating the same 24 note wide dissonant chord spread over the virtual piano keyboard over and over, only varying individual note volumes and timings, bringing out some patterns hiding in the mess. Many attempts to say the same thing in a different way, ending in emptiness.")
![[Experimental] Smörgåsbord - (arduino, light sensors, supercollider, and Roland Integra-7)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bpDpaeKBUbg/mqdefault.jpg "[Experimental] Smörgåsbord - (arduino, light sensors, supercollider, and Roland Integra-7)
4 miniature pieces captured at a coronaproof online concert with experimental music in Ghent in march 2021 where I performed with my DIY interface Liederbord.")
