Xeeban’s Musings

Oh. My. God. This dude is my new hero: G?nther!

Crazy mullet, creepy mustache… and the perfect euro song… “Ohhh, you touch my tra la la.” LOL.

The four main things in G?nther’s life are Chanpagne, Glamour, Sex and Respect…

Here are four last progressions for your study.

Progression 1
Progression 2
Progression 3
Progression 4

Good luck on finals =) Summer vacation is just around the bend!

This is a very cool article about cellular automata and music.

Take computers, mathematics, and the Java Sound API, add in some Java code, and you’ve got a recipe for creating some uniquely fascinating music. IBM Staff Software Engineer Paul Reiners demonstrates how to implement some basic concepts of algorithmic music composition in the Java language. He presents code examples and resulting MIDI files generated by the Automatous Monk program, which uses the open source jMusic framework to compose music based on mathematical structures called cellular automata.

Facinating stuff!

Here is Riemenschneider #74. We’re nearing the end of these chorales. Sorry to all of you who are not in the music class where these are being used, there will be more regular news and items here soon. Its been quite fun singing the solfege to these pieces, I hope we do more next semester!

Now with just a red laser pointer, a pin and a piece of cardboard, you can prove the existance of parallel universes in the confort of your living room!

For more information, check out this great book:

The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes-And Its Implications
by David Deutsch

Chorale #4 has been added to the Resources section. I know, not a very descriptive name… but its all that was on the music to identify it besides the score. Enjoy!

This one is more difficult than the others. Lots of movement in the bass voice, the tenor jumps around a lot. The MP3s are here is Riemenschneider #186. Get them while you still have time to practice! =)

They keep on coming! Here is Riemenschneider #73 for your choraling pleasure.