Prelude (2001)

Score: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid...

MIDI: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3VaLulgBc9-N2I3ZTNhZTctMGRmMy00NTM2LWI1YTgt...

Magic Ear (musical stereograms)

Just like stereograms add a new dimension to visual art, I have a theory that modulation can be used to add a new dimension to music, and Prelude is playing with this idea. Modulation is the soul of the Western tonal system, yet it's still melody and chords progression that the listener is expected to focus on. Like the 2D patterns used to build a Magic Eye image, melody and chords ought to become only bricks used to build a much more profound kind of melody than just single notes: a melody made up of scales and modes.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• metaw3 compositions
• tonicization
• modulation

[mjp621]

Please.

Is this a contest to see who is the most dissonant?

Horrible sound.

What is it?

[metaw3]

@mjp621 This composition is an experiment with modulation. It consists mostly of power chords treated as the tonic for less than a phrase. So it's not supposed to be that dissonant, unless your brain easily loses the sense of tonality when it hears a modulation. There is a link to the MIDI file in the description. Open it in a MIDI player that allows you to change the tempo, and slow it down considerably. Your brain will have more time to compute tonality between each modulation.