Music

Here's some music I've made.

I wrote a C++ program a while ago which calculates the Fourier series of a melody, when it is represented as a function comprised of a sequence of pure tones (sin waves). As the components of the series are gradually exposed, you can hear the series converge to the melody, which in this piece progresses through the harmonic series. This was done for five different transpositions of the same harmonic series melody; the transpositions are also determined according to the harmonic series. I took these five different converging series and gradually spread them out, so that the different harmonics become more apparent as the piece progresses. Also, the period of each function is pi. So, this is a harmonic series extravaganza.

I added some frequency modulation to the harmonic series code and fed the output into a granular synth.

I've done some recording with the drummer Ari Hoenig. The first record is called Interleaved; Marcos Varela plays bass. The second record is called Mirage; Francois Moutin plays bass.