7 December 2010

Coloured Score: Johann Sebastian Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Fugue I in C Major




An excellent animation by lenzorg inspired me to try some myself :)
I marked the subject in red and the semiquaver motif in blue.

Audio:
(CC)BySa From the Al Goldstein collection in the Pandora Music repository at ibiblio.org, via Wikimedia Commons

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15 November 2010

Happy Zenkov




(This is a bit of a rehash from the original Kromata post.)
Happy Zenkov was probably my first good composition. I think what makes it work is that for the first time I wasn't thinking of mixing this and that, it was a natural and intuitive invention that certainly has some Balkan and Irish things but not in an artificial way.
I came across the Zenkov rhythm in Kesslari's Doumbek Madness. The meter is 21/8 divided in three phrases 9/8 (2+2+2+3), 7/8 (2+2+3) and 5/8 (2+3). So there's some vague fractalness to the rhythm that becomes really comfortable once you get used to it.

Kromata*:
Alex Daniels - Accordion
Polen Iñaki Pérez - Flute
Charly Daniels - Darbuka
Axel Tamayo - Bass Guitar

* The Attribution for Happy Zenkov should contain this list.

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Soundcloud


I'm switching to SoundCloud. It'll make things easier for me (and you?). Instead of a download link after the player SoundCloud's player has an integrated download button (with a pointing down arrow).
All new posts will be made with the SoundCLoud player, and I'll change progressively the older ones.