Xeeban’s Musings

I’ve finished my final project for my theory class. Its a simple song called Inevitability that is in Sonata Allegro form (AABA). Its written for piano and cello. A strange combo perhaps, but it seems to work.

Inevitability MP3
Inevitability score

Mark and I scored a piece of music called “The Raven” which is based on the last verse of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic poem of the same name. You can find the MP3 here. It is scored for 4 voices, a piano intro and a two part string section (violin and cello).

The score itself is here. Courtesy solfege notes are included above the words for sight reading ease.

Enjoy!

The alarm went off at 6am and I jumped into the shower and ran out the door to meet fellow cohorts Karl and Mark at the parking lot of our office so we could embark on our yearly homage to the great gods of consumerism. Today was the great yearly Memorial Day sale at Guitar Center.

And today was the day I brought home my Yamaha 01X!

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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!

I’ve dug deep into my browser’s on-disk cache and discovered that I has some JPEGs of my studio there, and a quick search of Google recovered my old studio page. So with those two serendipitous events, I’ve been able to reconstruct my studio page. Enjoy!