In the electronic/pop-tronica music context check this one:Musical Gym wrote:Any examples of KS being used as complement to more traditionally arranged instrumental piece?
Can KS be controlled to follow chord changes?
https://soundcloud.com/2caudio/as1-hardwired
This uses standard chord-progression structures...
The way to do this in KS is to render each chord you need to fit the existing music strucutre and then cross-fade the rendered result in your DAW.
I like to think of the "musical" scale tuning in KS/AV1 in three classes:
1) Melodic
2) Chordal
3) Harmonic
Melodic scale provide ALL notes in a given scale. These are great for allowing KS to generate new compositional ideas. You will not typically have purposeful control over exactly what is happening -- unless you manually design images to achieve specific melodies and chord progressions that you want --but if this is the case, it is much better to simply use a normal synth and play the material yourself. The point of the melodic tunings is to help you to discover new directions for your composition and playing that you might not have come up with yourself. This is absolutely NOT cheating in any way. Music appreciation and composition is based very much on experience. If you listen only to radio and are familiar only with I-IV-V chord progressions in a major key, then your compositional ideas are likely to be quite limited. KS can expose you to all sorts of new structures and tonalities that you might not have been exposed to otherwise. This is very powerful. KS might even inspire the direction for some new melody/chord-progression, and then you might start playing it on piano, and the final composition/production might not even use any of the KS sources any more. Ever consider that? KS is actually a VERY good music theory teacher in this manner.
Chordal scales are useful to use KS as an advanced orchestration tool to augment and embellish existing music structures. These are what you want to use normally if you are working on Remixes, or adding to existing songs. You need to render different versions for each chord used in your song and then cross-fade.
Harmonic scales are simply members of the harmonic series (integers). They should be considered spectrally as a single musical note. They are quite nice to bass drones, and rhythmic pulses etc. You can change these the same way as with chordal tunings.
I am working on AV2 now. I have made a ridiculous amount of new musical tunings that cover more or less EVERYTHING possible within western music, as well as many non-western influences. This is stuff I began in 2011, but I am now finishing.
Physical objects including biological systems, as a whole, or in part, have resonant frequencies. One day medicine will likely work in these terms. But this is again best thought of in relative terms. A wavelength of X is relative to some other property Y of the system we are interested in studying/exploiting...
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