Leitmotifs

A useful sorting of the motifs in Wagner's Ring cycle with notation and synthesised audio. And a vidoe playlist of the same

from notation to music

The internet is a wonderful thing:

Too often we talk about the score when we mean the music. 

Music 'similarity'

I recently discovered that, as an artist, I am 100% similar to the following:

• Humair, Ducret, Chevillon + Eskelin
• Muhal Richard Abrams & Roscoe Mitchell 
• The Fonda / Stevens Group
• Jean-François Bovard Et La Compagnie d'Eustache 

And that the genres I'm working in are Juma, Gammarec, and freepurp1e. Now I have to find out what those are...

Rhythmic Placing

Listening to the snare drum in the quieter bits in this recording (e.g. around 20 sec. in):

This is not sloppy playing, but a deliberate, and fascinating, offset. We all too often forget these kind of nuances - things that happen in-between the beats and that are difficult to capture and analyse.

Electronic Music - not so very new

120years.net provides a wealth of information on developments in electronic music. 

"The focus of this project is in exploring the main themes of electronic instrument design and development previous to 1970 (and therefore isn’t intended as an exhaustive list of recent commercial synthesisers or software packages.) As well as creating a free, encyclopaedic, pedagogical resource on the History of Electronic Music"

Threnody - Penderecki

An animated score of a seminal work of the 20th century:

Schoenberg's 'timbre' piece

In his book on harmony Schoenberg remarks that " it must also be possible to make progressions out of tone colours....progressions whose relations with one another work with a kind of logic entirely equivalent to that logic which satisfies us in the melody of pitches."
This is often linked to the 3rd of his orchestral pieces:

Endless glissando

This is an illustrated video of a famous auditory illusion:

vowels - formants

A spectral view of different vowels:

Grieg - Lyric Pieces

Construction of melody - elaboration, variation; phrase structure; use of simple harmony;

And the same melody in a different dress (+ unexpected modulation):

Analysing electroacoustic music

New sounds, new techniques, new approaches to understanding(?):

• Several Analysis articles from eContact.
• The orema project is a growing resource with analysis examples, discussion of approaches, and other useful resources.
• Rajmil Fischman's graphic score for Point-virgule.
• graphic score of Schaeffer's Etude aux Objects. 
• And a temporal analysis of another Schaeffer study. 

Wild is the Wind

Comparing this version of Wild is the Wind to this rendition, mainly focusing on the structure and how to work with (and around) conventional forms.