Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Rough outline.

-Elevator Pitch: English language as method of electronic musical composition

-Precedents: Musique Concrete as originated by Pierre Schaeffer

-Process:

Timbre: Layer 1--waveforms based upon ASCII
Layer 2--Found Sounds literally representing word etymology

Pitch:etymologies placed into different categories representing specific notes; words averaged into single notes through sentences; final key determined by average etymological contexts

Tempo:Lengths of sentences

Note length: Number of syllables/length of words

Envelope/Velocity: Use of consonants, vowels

-Initial Prototype: transcript of paragraph into musical composition

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