About that music

[cnoocy]

So last night I posted some music. If you want to try to figure out what it is, read that post, not this one.


Every natural number greater than 1 can be expressed as a unique set of prime factors.
5: 5.
6: 2 3.
672: 2 2 2 2 2 3 7.
If you assign each prime a note, going up the chromatic scale, and for each number, play its prime factorization in ascending sequence within a single beat, the clips I posted are 2-97 and 300-397.

I had this idea 3 years ago or so, and have just now gotten it working with some help from rikchik and some folks from the secret project down the way. It's a neat sound, though I feel like there's more to do with it. It might be interesting to do something different with the primes, to emphasize the lyrical quality of the composites. I'll need to think about that, but I'd be very interested in suggestions.

Here's the sequence from 2 to 397.

Comments

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Glad I could help.

[mrmorse.livejournal.com]

I got as far as it being based on a mathematical sequence and having a mechanism for both note duration and pitch, but not volume, but didn't get farther than that. What's your starting pitch? By the end of the sequence, the notes are clearly way too high, but they're less too high than I would have guessed based on the description.

Some modern music shares some elements with your sequence, but by itself this comes off as more the basis for a piece of music than something finished.

Have you considered chords instead of individual notes? For 6, rather than playing the pitches for 2 and 3 sequentially, you could play them both at the same time.

max

[(Anonymous)]

Do you know Max/MSP?
It's a good environment for such experiences.

greetings:

erno"