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About Polychrome Music
Click to activate sound 🔈 The work is responsive, it will adapt to any screen size 🌹
👉 Legowelt: For Polychrome Music I designed a generative music system that plays an infinite composition on 3 different audio channels, each with their own synthesizer. These randomly generate simple musical timbres inspired by early computer sound chips. 🌴 The music itself is generated by randomly selecting 3 patterns out of a pool of 180. These patterns, which are little 8-bar music pieces, were written in the same C# Dorian scale so they always fit together. This is a pleasant sounding minor and colorful scale that I believe fits the general vibe of Rafaël’s work. 🌲 Composition wise, channel 1 plays the bassline and channels 2 and 3 the melody, countermelody, arpeggios and harmonies. 🌳 The system changes the patterns each time they are played, reversing, speeding up or slowing down the pattern or changing the synthesizer channel they are played on. In essence the system infinitely randomly remixes the source melodies to create ever new surprising pieces that harmonize with the colorful compositions. 👈
Learn more at https://www.newrafael.com
Rafaël Rozendaal & Danny Wolfers (Legowelt)
Rafaël Rozendaal has been making websites-as-art-objects since 2001. Exhibited in The Whitney Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Centre Pompidou, and Times Square. Dutch-Brazilian, living in New York.
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Aug 24, 2022, 5:00 PM UTC
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