MetaFilter posts tagged with composition

Composer Bob Jones shows a Harmonic Visualization of his latest piece, “Well Jessica, It’s Just as Well."

Olive Oil — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:06:46 -0800

Harmonic Visualization Bob Jones is finally making more musics. Here are some of his latest work. Make sure to look at the Harmonic Visualization before (and durning) listening to the piece. It really allows for a richer experience.

There's more to it than "omit the instrumental part"

Wolfdog — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:25:56 -0800

A guide to a capella arranging from SmarterMusic, including some nice analysis of examples.

1,000 Songs Your Must Hear

rongorongo — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:07:55 -0800

Those of Love(+), those of Sex(+), those of Hearbreak(+), those of People and Places (+), those of Politics and Protest (+). The Guardian's journalists purloin you with "1,000 Songs You Must Hear". The plus links lead to people's outraged suggestions of those that are missing from each category. Perfect for when 10, 100, 500 or 3,000 are just the wrong numbers.

Guitar crack

baphomet — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:42:05 -0800

Guitar chord progression generator. Guitar chord charts. Have fun!

The Music Text Composition Generator

Sailormom — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:52:36 -0800

The P22 Music Text Composition Generator allows any text to be converted into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file. The P22 Music Composition Font was proposed in 1997 to the John Cage Trust as an accompaniment to the John Cage text font based on the handwriting of the composer. The idea was basic and simple-every letter of the alphabet was assigned to a note on a scale. This would allow for any text to be converted into musical notation.

Naalagiagvik -- The Place Where You Go to Listen

fourcheesemac — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:21:42 -0800

The Song of the Earth -- New Yorker music critic Alex Ross writes on composer John Luther Adams, who has created an installation work at the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska in which geologic, astronomical, and meteorologic data are converted, in real time, into "a shimmering synthesized carillon." For a tiny hint of the experience, you can watch this Youtube video Hear more about the work from Living on Earth.

"Hey, my Cheetah could paint that!"

maudlin — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:39:24 -0800

Human artist or ape artist? Six paintings, six chances to show your expertise or just guess correctly. (Previously) Hint inside. All the ape paintings are by the same primate; all the human paintings are by different famous humans.

Pandora Podcasts on music composition and performance

Ira.metafilter — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:04:05 -0800

The Pandora Podcast Series: "The idea behind them is to provide some interesting, and hopefully entertaining segments on various aspects of music theory. Kind of like a peek under the hood of music composition and performance using lots of musical examples." So far they've covered vocal harmony, drumming, electric guitar effects, recording vocals and elements of salsa. Schedule for rest of 2007.

Iannis Xenakis Lives On

hama7 — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:15:57 -0800

Iannis Xenakis Lives On

10 great beat-making videos

nthdegx — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:09:10 -0800

10 greatest beat-making videos ever* "*Or, you know, today." A Music thing thing.

Me and my 424

ludwig_van — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:45:37 -0800

Tweak's Guide to Home Recording. A comprehensive home recording guide that will take you all the way from buying an audio interface to choosing a mic preamp to learning the subtle arts of compression and EQing. A good refresher course even for those with recording experience. And for those more interested in composition than recording, Tweak's piece on Inspiration is insightful as well.

Tocatta and Fudged in D Minor

daksya — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:52:27 -0800

Did Bach compose Tocatta and Fugue in D minor?

Mad scientist of music

NemesisVex — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:49:18 -0800

'A novel contained in a single sigh' On Sept. 15, 1945, Anton Webern stepped out to smoke a cigar. An American soldier, seeing the glow of the cigar, panicked and shot Webern three times. Webern, along with Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, is credited with -- or blamed for -- ushering in an era of composition emphasizing strict, mathematical order over all elements of music, a reaction against the suicidal excess of Romanticism. On the anniversary of his death, BBC Radio 3 hosts Webern Day, during which Webern's complete works will be broadcast. The total time to perform his 31 works is about three hours. (Links grabbed mostly from ArtsJournal.)

Ted Nugent has no idea what this shit means

DeepFriedTwinkies — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:17:28 -0800

Algorithmic composition is a method of composing music using basic alogrithm models to compose. Musicalgorithms is a program designed to allow composers a tool to explore algorithmic composition and lay people the opportunity to create music based on non-musical models.