For the second blog of the evening, let's jump to a completely different area of interest!

A couple of years ago I did a secret pseudonymous CD on Jani Hirvonen's om ha sva ha ksha ma la va ra yam label. The music itself was the product of my apprenticeship with the Symbolic Composer (SCOM) computer-aided composition environment. I ( Read more... )

Very quick post to say that as part of a larger project, I recently began work on some software to output music inspired by Gaspar Schott's take on the Musarithmic Organ. I've discussed at length in an earlier post, but thought I'd just post an extract of some of the first output since I think it's starting to sound quite nice… listen here.

As a preface to a series of posts about algorithmic music that I have planned here's a little something in a cosmic synth Tangerine Dream/Klaus Schultze vein. It was originally intended as part of a project with Jani Hellén, reinterpreting Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as a cosmic space journey. The musical content ( Read more... )