Ideas on a new kind of modified Bach piece...

Hello again,

I'm thinking about ways to use the program I wrote and I'm currently
leaning towards making a new kind of modified Bach piece.

Basically, I'm going to try shrinking a short Bach piece into one
note, and then re-synthesizing the same piece with the shrunken notes
as the instrument.

So, for example, I could take Invention No.1 and shrink it down in the
time-domain so it was only as long as 16th note, then also shrink the
frequency domain so that the entire piece sounds like it's all close
to one note (although this may require breaking up the note into
voices/phrases first). Now, if I shrink it in the frequency domain to
scale-factor zero, it will all be on the same note (whichever one I
want it to be)... but any scale-factor larger than that will give me
variations within the note with most of them being microtonal.

Before I start experimenting with this, though, I'm wondering what
some interesting ways to work out a "good" scale-factor for the
shrink-down in the frequency domain would be. Any thoughts?

Cheers!
~af~

LOL
Really curious to hear this when it's finished :)

When you srink all the notes to one note and the use that as an instrument,
I think the best scale by far would be the natural harmonic overtone series.
So 1/1 2/1 3/1 4/1 5/1 6/1 7/1 etc (and maybe put a filter and envelope on
that etc)
That way it'll probably sound like a sound with a pitch and not noise
(though not much left of the original notes, but it seems like you've made
sure of that allready :)
Then play the piece with the new sound in 12tet or a tempered tuning (or the
harmonnics series again for fun :)

Chears,
Marcel

> Before I start experimenting with this, though, I'm wondering what
> some interesting ways to work out a "good" scale-factor for the
> shrink-down in the frequency domain would be. Any thoughts?
>

Of course! ...take the key the current section is in and shrink it to
one note using the harmonic series of that key... I had not thought
of that, thank you!

I'm betting it sounds really cool, but we'll see :)

~af~

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Marcel de Velde <m.develde@...> wrote:
>
> LOL
> Really curious to hear this when it's finished :)
>
> When you srink all the notes to one note and the use that as an
instrument,
> I think the best scale by far would be the natural harmonic overtone
series.
> So 1/1 2/1 3/1 4/1 5/1 6/1 7/1 etc (and maybe put a filter and
envelope on
> that etc)
> That way it'll probably sound like a sound with a pitch and not noise
> (though not much left of the original notes, but it seems like
you've made
> sure of that allready :)
> Then play the piece with the new sound in 12tet or a tempered tuning
(or the
> harmonnics series again for fun :)
>
> Chears,
> Marcel
>
> > Before I start experimenting with this, though, I'm wondering what
> > some interesting ways to work out a "good" scale-factor for the
> > shrink-down in the frequency domain would be. Any thoughts?
> >
>