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Re: Music Grid

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 2:37 PM UTC

reitzensteinm wrote: post #235

__max__ wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well trodden ground? Except there wasn't desktop software that could do this beforehand. If you can't see the innovation, let me spell it out for you in very few words: the software has an intuitive-enough UI that you need no prior knowledge of the program to use it, and you can share musical ideas in one or two clicks. Please tell us exactly which desktop program allowed you to do this, as easily, pre-2012? Yes, thi…

This kind of simple edit and share songs definitely existed, e.g. Otomata. So you combined Otomata and Tone Matrix? Cool, I guess, but the ingredients were right there for any number of people to do the same thing independently. Trying to claim your place as the trunk of the tree that any tool that looks like this branches out of is not reflective of reality and pure hubris. Also I'd appreciate it if you added a link…

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Re: Music Grid

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Post by afiori » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 2:52 PM UTC

holler wrote: post #8

This is pretty cool! but hitting "back" after adding multiple notes did not work (it got stuck). Could you use query params instead of hash?

I a different comment they requested exactly this behavior not to push too much stuff on the browsing history. It should be about the way the url is updated rather than fragment vs parameters

Re: Music Grid

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Post by palimpsests » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 5:01 AM UTC

yesenadam wrote: post #237

palimpsests wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure... it could be that mode (Phrygian, or the mode starting on the 3rd degree of the major scale). The tonal center we'll hear using this specific collection of notes, whether it be G#, C#, E (or any other note from this key), all depends on the sequence you enter. Rhythmic variation would also support this but this app does not have that option. Here's one with a tonal center of C#: https://music-grid.surge.sh/#11…

My point was merely that the statement "In modal language, this is the C# Aeolian" is not correct. (source: am a jazz musician) It's unclear to me from your comment whether you realize that.

I am also a jazz musician.

this scale:

C# D# E F# G# A B C#

is C# Aeolian.

Minus the A natural, that is one collection of notes that is being strongly suggested by this app. Yes, an A# would would change the tonality, and the key.

To me, I hear the 9th scale degree relative to the tonic much more than the 6th (i.e. 13th). That's in general, and it's based on my own predilections and harmonic training. This scale includes a D#, as well as the 4th and 5th. I "hear" this as relative to C#, not G#. Totally welcome, of course, that you hear this as relative to G#; the E natural then functions as the minor 6th. To me, that's a much weaker harmonic suggestion than the E natural functioning as the minor third. It's totally OK with me that we hear this differently. Is it OK with you?

Also, why does it matter to you what I (some random person online) realizes (or not)?