MoiréArp: Listen to the Numbers

[@trancemuter]

cool!

[@jrettetsohyt1]

Fascinating exploration, thanks!

[@ilia7206]

8:48 Superb Algorithm , Open source .. ❤🙏🏻

[@gjb7966]

yet another one. brilliant work, zack. and thanks again for sharing it with the world

[@zsteinkamp]

Happy to set it free!:)

[@laurentmialon2594]

excellent !!

[@shinyisshiny7780]

awesome. thank you!

[@laurentmialon2594]

truly loving this, great work, from the concept to the actual acoustic result, impatient to show this to my son to convince him, again, about the fact we can hear the beauty of mathematics, bravo Zack

[@zsteinkamp]

Sharing our enthusiasm with kids is one of the best things we can do :)

[@Marco-mv2wp]

Sounding like Steve Reich with a few clicks. I love it!

[@zsteinkamp]

Lol I had a similar thought the first time I heard that +5 semitone pattern too. "Uhh Steve Reich called and he wants his composition tools back." :D

[@gregross4384]

Very cool

[@anicca3179]

Awesome

[@luizfernandopedroso334]

You know it will be a good video when it is about a shower idea.

[@zsteinkamp]

So true! The wall mounted fountain of ideas.

[@STTLLC]

Cool! What keyboard is on your desk?

[@zsteinkamp]

Thanks :) It's a Keith McMillen K-Board Pro 4. It's a full MPE controller -- velocity, pressure, slide, bend, velo off per key. It's pretty neat to make use of the MPE features with instruments. Only downside IMO is that the keys don't move, so for a real player it may be disconcerting.

[@davidgriffith3938]

Your "ceiling tiles" and other visual patterns are a caused by displaying your patterns on a display which has an insufficient number of pixels, not by the musical patterns themselves. Just to be clear. The sounds themselves seem useful maybe for certain movie themes to convey confusion or erratic activity, but not much else. Like equal spaced scales (chromatic whole tone, aug, dim etc), their lack of structural differences does not give the listener anything to hook onto. I wonder if the moire could be modified to use note spacing within an interesting scale, instead of just chromatically.

[@zsteinkamp]

Yes of course the visual connection isn't 1:1 with the sonic one, but the core concept is the same -- an imposition of an arbitrary second order of organization on top of a primary order. It's not intended as anything more than a demonstration of number patterns, so I guess using it for your next concerto is out then eh? Pairing it with a scale-aware scale device would be one way to do what you're suggesting, and is what I do in the videos.