Music 220a Homework 4: Auditory Streaming

Keanu Bellamy

Chuck Files, Data Files

Generated Sound Files

Description

The final2 piece plays around with chord progressions to create interesting arpeggios of ascending and descending chords. It uses chuck to create a loop of the drum kit and to create the arpeggiated chord progressions. The drum pattern comes in straight, but I sporked it twice. I staggered sporking the drum pattern to create a new, more swung pattern. The drum pattern is relatively fast and the chord progression is really off beat and much slower then the drum pattern. I think it makes it sound interesting and is an interesting concept to play around with even though it doesn't end up sounding the best. Originally I had wanted to compose something similar to homework 3, where it was a "musical conversation" of traded solos over a low drone, which is final1. My original piece creates a duet using the physical instrument models in chuck. The dissonant drone is split intermittently by random solos from a shaker and a stifkarp chuck instrument.