Uploaded July 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Strict canon in 5 at the octave. This means you hear five times exactly the same melody, but with a small time delay between the starting points, and at all times all the simultaneously playing notes should sound well together. This is the first result of a method I've invented (or more likely: rediscovered ;-) ) to algorithmically construct simple "natural-sounding" canons.
Believe it or not, the canon you can hear in this video took only a few minutes to conceive (and then another 2 hours to enter the score and render to file and create a video...).
I used a short theme with a short delay between the voices to test drive the method.
I also used slightly jazzy harmonies instead of the intervals that would be allowed by the classical rules. Ideally I'd like to adapt the method to deal with creating more complicated canon forms or to create fugal material. For now, however, this is my state of the art example...
I have written up an tutorial on writing a canon like this which you can find via my blog page: a-touch-of-music.blogspot.be/2012/07/tutorial-on-my-technique-for-writing.html
Exact replication of the 5 voices is ensured by instantiating the same music expression 5 times in lilypond (adding the full score to the video takes more work than I have time at the moment). I imported the midi file generated by lilypond in lmms, and then rendered to .wav using the Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass and Bassoon patches in the FluidR3 soundfont.
The score can be found on my blog page: a-touch-of-music.blogspot.be/2012/07/canon-in-5.html
Strict canon in 5 at the octave. This means you hear five times exactly the same melody, but with a small time delay between the starting points, and at all times all the simultaneously playing notes should sound well together. This is the first result of a method I've invented (or more likely: rediscovered ;-) ) to algorithmically construct simple "natural-sounding" canons.
Believe it or not, the canon you can hear in this video took only a few minutes to conceive (and then another 2 hours to enter the score and render to file and create a video...).
I used a short theme with a short delay between the voices to test drive the method.
I also used slightly jazzy harmonies instead of the intervals that would be allowed by the classical rules. Ideally I'd like to adapt the method to deal with creating more complicated canon forms or to create fugal material. For now, however, this is my state of the art example...
I have written up an tutorial on writing a canon like this which you can find via my blog page: a-touch-of-music.blogspot.be/2012/07/tutorial-on-my-technique-for-writing.html
Exact replication of the 5 voices is ensured by instantiating the same music expression 5 times in lilypond (adding the full score to the video takes more work than I have time at the moment). I imported the midi file generated by lilypond in lmms, and then rendered to .wav using the Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass and Bassoon patches in the FluidR3 soundfont.
The score can be found on my blog page: a-touch-of-music.blogspot.be/2012/07/canon-in-5.html
![[Experimental] Blind date with a light organ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vMuv63Xar9k/mqdefault.jpg "[Experimental] Blind date with a light organ
Im still without working digital piano... So Im posting a recent bootleg recording of an experimental piece I made. What we see and hear is a blind date with a light organ.(Oh... the irony.) The opportunity arose to write an experimental piece consisting of sounds and lights. I created and chose sounds, and I mapped the sounds to lights. Part of the challenge was that it was not known beforehand how the lamps were going to be ordered in the space, nor what they would look like in terms of size and color. Therefore the assignment was not only about creating sounds and triggering lights, but also a bit about trying to think of a kind of light choreography that could work with any ordering of lamps. This music is not to everyones taste obviously (nor is all my other music for that matter), but I think its worth listening to the end to see and hear how the atmosphere changes over the course of the piece. Im curious to learn from you in the comments what feelings you experienced during the piece (if any), and what feeling you were left with at the end. Did it manage to grab your attention at some point?")
![[Experimental] The meaning of life (Roland Integra-7)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ylF8iCwIYRg/mqdefault.jpg "[Experimental] The meaning of life (Roland Integra-7)
Another close reading - this time of an animated conversation between two persons (Alan and Karl). In just 3 minutes time they discuss the meaning of life. Ive transcribed their conversation for piano and saxophone and background noises for percussion. This video might get taken down at some point in the future since I did ask their permission to reuse their video, but didnt get any reply. You can visit their youtube channel and find the original video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3demFMgK6I .")
