Uploaded July 2014 | Updated September 2026, 30 minutes ago
I needed a break from another piece I'm working on and decided to take up a canon experiment again. I wrote a number of short canons where each voice plays in a different key or different mode than the other voices. While all my experiments so far yielded ok results, the result of this experiment with a 3-voice canon where voice 1 plays a melody in Lydian mode (major key with an extra sharp), voice 2 plays the same melody in Ionian mode (major key), and voice 3 plays the same melody in Mixolydian mode (major key with one less sharp) turned out more interesting than I had anticipated.
I used lilypond while composing because it allows me to automatically calculate voice 2 and voice 3 from voice 1, which rules out many potential errors in the score, and which greatly reduces the work that goes into creating and revising a score, keeping everything up-to-date and providing auditory feedback.
I used LMMS to render the .midi file created by lilypond to a .wav file using the oboe and bassoon instruments from the sf2 soundfont.
I used kdenlive on debian linux to mix together the images and sound into the video you're watching.
The background picture is reused with permission from secure.flickr.com/photos/popupology/5542642928 (creative commons license nc-sa-2.0)
I needed a break from another piece I'm working on and decided to take up a canon experiment again. I wrote a number of short canons where each voice plays in a different key or different mode than the other voices. While all my experiments so far yielded ok results, the result of this experiment with a 3-voice canon where voice 1 plays a melody in Lydian mode (major key with an extra sharp), voice 2 plays the same melody in Ionian mode (major key), and voice 3 plays the same melody in Mixolydian mode (major key with one less sharp) turned out more interesting than I had anticipated.
I used lilypond while composing because it allows me to automatically calculate voice 2 and voice 3 from voice 1, which rules out many potential errors in the score, and which greatly reduces the work that goes into creating and revising a score, keeping everything up-to-date and providing auditory feedback.
I used LMMS to render the .midi file created by lilypond to a .wav file using the oboe and bassoon instruments from the sf2 soundfont.
I used kdenlive on debian linux to mix together the images and sound into the video you're watching.
The background picture is reused with permission from secure.flickr.com/photos/popupology/5542642928 (creative commons license nc-sa-2.0)
![[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.")
