Tea and Jam
Tea and Jam
Sunday, 15 February 2015, 15h30
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No Clapping ‘til the Music Stops
"No Clapping 'til the Music Stops" is a study in canons for piano solo suggested by Reich's Clapping Music. Both hands maintain the same 12-beat pattern till the end, starting in unison but with the left hand inserting an extra beat every 8 or 12 measures until they synchronize after completing the cycle (but how did they end up together again rather than a whole measure off?). — Noam Elkies
OMaxical Conversation
OMax is a technology that allows a virtual musical agent to learn straight from the musicians playing live and to develop its own musical discourse in dialog with the musicians based on stylistic and timbral imitation. OMax creates a cooperation between heterogeneous components specialized in real-time audio signal processing, high level music representations and formal knowledge structures, and combines an artificial listening machine with interactive learning and cognitively inspired memory model. Video and musical examples at www.dailymotion.com/bookmarks/RepMus/1. — Gérard Assayag
Chord Geometries in Italian Pop
By taking some typical Paolo Conte’s harmonic progressions as a starting point, I’ll show the relevance of a geometric approach in the organization of the formal structure of some recent songs. A special emphasis will be given to Hamiltonian Cycles within the Tonnetz, as they have been used in a series of poetry-based “Hamiltonian Songs” (from Aprile, with text by Gabriele D’Annunzio to La sera non è più la tua canzone, with text by Mario Luzi). Videos and musical examples available at the author’s music web page: repmus.ircam.fr/moreno/music. — Moreno Andreatta