Re: perl / python, was apspec activity: music for single stack

Ewe Drumming teacher C.K. Ladzekpo's Aaron Lav has created an interesting
piece of linux software, RhythmLab, which lets you trigger samples in
polyrhythmic patterns, he has a fractional beats concept, with different
patterns against each other, like 5 against 4 or 11 against 26, its very
flexable, but limited because it doesn't have jack or ladspa support, but
the concept could be carried over to a perl script that can generate
scores.

C.K. Ladzekpo has a really great website about african rhythms, at :
http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/PrinciplesFr.html

The rhythm lab website is at:
http://www.panix.com/~asl2/music/RhythmLab/



On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, gerald wenzel wrote:

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> Brian Redfern wrote:
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> |
> | Gerald's perl scripts are very cool, they allow him to write patterns in a
> | spread sheet like excel, and then his program scans the csv file to
> | generate score info. That's a bit of a simplification, but he is able to
> | use the spreadsheet as a composition tool for scores.
> |
> 
> In the past was using a spreadsheet to help me create scores.  However,
> I've been interested in polyrhythmic music so my spreadsheet hasn't been
> of much use lately because it only works for linear music in 4/4 time.
> So now I've been working without any sort of visual reference, only perl
> and csound code.  I've been studying African music.  I noticed that in
> African music they don't have measures.  Instead, a unit of time is
> used.  This unit of time is often marked by a repeating bell pattern.
> The cool thing about using code is that polyrhythms can be programmed.
> Many sequencers are based on western theory so they don't make
> programming polyrhythms easy.  At least that has been my experience.  A
> great paper on African music with sounds samples is available here:
> 
> http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.00.6.1/mto.00.6.1.anku.html
> 
> At the bottom of the article, it says that you can purchase full
> transcripts of the articles.  "Structural Set Analysis of African
> Music*. Vol. 1: Adowa" and "Structural Set Analysis of African Music*.
> Vol. 2: Bawa" by Willie Anku.  I've tried contacting Professor Anku and
> several universities to acquire the full transcripts, but I haven't had
> any luck.  Does anyone on this list have access to the full transcripts?
> ~ If so, please email me off-list.
> 
> - --
> gerald wenzel
> music: http://apspec.com
> linux & code: http://geraldwenzel.com
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