Gnossiennes No.1 Forever
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Gnossiennes No.1 Forever
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Re: Gnossiennes No.1 Forever
#2Another way to make this endless would be to loop the original: it would be necessary to find a place near the end that can be imperceptibly spliced with a place near the beginning.
Re: Gnossiennes No.1 Forever
#3Another way to make this endless would be to loop the original: it would be necessary to find a place near the end that can be imperceptibly spliced with a place near the beginning.
if you ignore the slurs and pretend the piece is written in 4/4 (which I do for the sake of this), the last measure actually could plausibly precede the first measure (this happens where the sheet music shows the direction "du bout de la pensée"). But I don't think it would be as interesting a listen, and it wouldn't have been a very fun project.
Re: Gnossiennes No.1 Forever
#4Another way to make this endless would be to loop the original: it would be necessary to find a place near the end that can be imperceptibly spliced with a place near the beginning.
if you ignore the slurs and pretend the piece is written in 4/4 (which I do for the sake of this), the last measure actually could plausibly precede the first measure (this happens where the sheet music shows the direction "du bout de la pensée"). But I don't think it would be as interesting a listen, and it wouldn't have been a very fun project.
Well, it depends on how you feel about "appropriating" the original vs. feeding it to a Markov chain. I don't think less code/no code is necessarily boring, nor would a more complex LSTM model of the music necessarily be more interesting.
I was thinking of a non-digital piece by Rodney Graham, where he retypeset a few pages of a book so that a looped reading became possible:
"In Lenz of 1983, for instance, Graham appropriated an unfinished novella by Georg Büchner in which the mentally unstable protagonist, Lenz, wanders through a forest. The artist reset the type on pages one to two and on pages five to six of an English translation of the story, to set up a situation in which the page breaks at the same phrase ‘through/the forest’, which establishes a loop whose effect is to cause Lenz to endlessly repeat his journey by returning from page five to page two; in 1993 (fig.6), Graham had a reading machine constructed for this version of the text to facilitate the repetition, and the hardcover version of the 1983 work was a book bound with eighty-three repetitions of these pages, which in principle can be continued forever."
https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/06...
Re: Gnossiennes No.1 Forever
#5The 2nd is imho much better though.
And you cannot really show the Satie notes without the original running commentaries above the notes, esp. on the
Gnossiennes. The original sheets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlU80BLtAwE
E.g. Postulez en vous-même. Wonder about yourself. Munissez-vous de clairvoyance. Provide yourself with shrewdness. Seul, pendant un instant. Alone, for a moment. Très perdu. Very lost. Ouvrez la tête. Open your head. Superstitieusement. Superstitiously. D'une manière très particulière. In a very particular way. Léger comme un œuf. Light as an egg.
Also, he was pretty weird: https://flypaper.soundfly.com/diversions/composer-erik-satie...