Cello, viola and harp in 6/8 time - Tune Smithy Fractal Tune

see http://tunesmithy.com for Tune Smithy, the program used to make this. This is based on the "contrabass solo in 6/8 time", one of the fractal tunes that come with the program.

Tuning: is Pythagorean 12 tone: 256/243 9/8 32/27 81/64 4/3 729/512 3/2 128/81 27/16 16/9 243/128 2/1

Instruments: orchestral harp, viola, cello

FRACTAL TUNES

This tune is generated from the short seed phrase you hear at the start of the clip by a construction similar to the Koch snowflake visual fractal, entirely algorithmically.

No composition methods or techniques are used except to create the seed. The underlying structure is a sloth canon with structure at ever larger and larger time scales and goes on endlessly, though transformed so much you can't expect to hear it as a sloth canon.

The process of fractal "composition" consists of creating the seed, then you set how the notes are tuned, vary some parameters, and choose the instruments to play each part. The rest is all automatic. The reason it works may be because many natural sounds like running water have fractal qualities, and also composers and improvisers naturally use fractal type approacheswithout realising it.

Gives an idea of what the tune sounds like played on high quality instruments

It's a display only, non editable score, notes positioned by time, which is why the measures keep changing in size because of the fractal rhythms, with many of the fractal rhythms you couldn't notate them at all exactly with conventional musical rhythm notations.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Cello
• Viola
• Classical
• Tune
• Smithy
• Fractal