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Wall of Notes

Music blog for motivation to play more music

Author

Matt Crump

Fixing up my Sears Kawai 26133 electric guitar

guitars

gear

repair

Should’ve tried to do this a while ago

Boss rc-505 mk ii looper

looping

gear

Basement jam notes

Ep-133 K.O. II random notes

EP-133

gear

Practice notes on the 64 MB Sampler Composer by Teenage Engineering

Ep-133 K.O. II random notes

EP-133

gear

Practice notes on the 64 MB Sampler Composer by Teenage Engineering

Weekly practice March 17-22

music practice

Adobe after effects scratchpad

after effects

vfx

Random note collection on using adobe after effects

VO: Every Station Needs Command: Canvas Animation

VO

video

canvas animation

youtube short

More messing around with adobe after effects

VO: Slow Down: Canvas Animation

VO

video

canvas animation

youtube short

More messing around with adobe after effects

VO: Country Fire: Canvas Animation

VO

video

More messing around with adobe after effects

Process thoughts on a new album: Basement Tapes 1

New Release

Basement Tapes 1

distrokid

Album liner notes to self and general talk about making and sharing the music.

VO: We will go for a ride to the beach

VO

video

Making some quick animations for an older track

Airwolf trap remix

airwolf

nes

midi remix

Once I started I couldn’t stop.

Composition tests

midiblender

soundfont

fluidsynth

Trying to make things that sound interesting!

Soundfonts and {rsoundfont}!

midiblender

soundfont

fluidsynth

I’ve got so many soundfonts, and now I can do stuff with them in R!

Testing out {fluidsynth} for R!

midiblender

midi

fluidsynth

Hurrah, fluidsynth made easy for R!

Playing a MIDI file on a Quarto blog

midiblender

midi

Quick test to see if a MIDI player will work on this page. And it does!

MIDI composition with {dplyr}, {midiblender}, and {pyramidi}

midiblender

pyramidi

rstats

dplyr

midi composition

Trying some dplyr composition patterns for creating midi files

Eurorack notes to self

midiblender

eurorack

programmable eurorack

composition

Keeping track of some eurorack directions, notes to self.

Euclidean Rhythms and circulating sequences with information theory concepts

midiblender

euclidean rhythms

information theory

Probably biting off more than I can chew here. A saturday experiment in MIDI mangling.

Turning up the randomness to 11 for MAXIMUM MIDI MADNESS

midiblender

fun

Mangling with all the polyphony, will it blend?

Analyzing and filtering note occurence by point estimation

midiblender

probabilistic filtering

rstatsmusic

midi

rstats

Using matrix representations of MIDI files to mangle them based on point estimates, like a low pass filter cutoff, but for probabilities.

{midiblender} is alive!

midiblender

generativemusic

rstatsmusic

midi

rstats

{midiblender} is an R package for experimental genRative MIDI mangling

Midi blending Canon in D probabilistically

midiblender

generativemusic

rstatsmusic

midi

rstats

More work in progress with midiblender. It seems to be blending.

WIP: Endless probabilistically generated mario music with midiblender

midiblender

generativemusic

rstatsmusic

midi

rstats

Still a work in progress, getting closer to victory

midiblender: working on an experimental R package

midiblender

generativemusic

rstatsmusix

midi

rstats

A scratchpad post to help me with package development

MIDI analysis, bags of notes, and probabilistic generation

midi

nlp

matrix

rstats

Still in an exploratory phase. Comments on matrix representation for MIDI, and opportunities for probabilistic playback.

Messing around with heart and soul

midi

generative

matrix

rstats

A sunday synthesizer exploration.

Midi to matrix representation and probabilistic super mario music with R

midi

generative

mario

matrix

rstats

Converting midi to feature vectors and back, with some probabilistic versions of the super mario overworld music.

Systematically randomizing Super Mario brothers with R

midi

fluidsynth

rstats

Achieving my glorious mission.

Charting out chordal spin

chord similarity

datavis

circle of fifths

music theory

rstats

Using ggplot2 to visualize how chords spin around the circle of fifths

Midi and synthesis in R

midi

fluidsynth

rstats

Trying out a few R packages to handle MIDI data in dataframes, and play it with fluid synth.

A sphere of fifths

chord similarity

datavis

circle of fifths

music theory

rstats

3d plot of chord space

C major scale analysis

chord similarity

datavis

circle of fifths

music theory

rstats

C major scale

movement

Looking at the C major scale from the geometry of vector space.

Week of 1/28 - 2/3 daily practice post

piano practice

Keeping track of small practice exercises

Symmetry, high-dimensional chord space, the circle of fifths, and Sunday morning

chord similarity

datavis

circle of fifths

music theory

Musing about some chord and scale implications from visualizations of chord vector space

Steps toward visualizing chord spaces

chord similarity

datavis

Attempts to visualize version of a chord similarity space

Listening to complex tones using sine waves and toneR

computer music

tuneR

R music

An experiment in listening to similar chord patterns as complex tones, and side adventures.

Week of 1/21 - 1/27 daily practice post

piano practice

Keeping track of small practice exercises

Minerva and expectancy from a chord vector space

chord similarity

MINERVA

Scratchpad for messing around with a MINERVA II model in a musical chord context. Notes to self

Chord Similarity analysis table

chord similarity

Using a vector space to analyse similarity between chords in an interactive table

Expanding the chord reaction time test

practice

chord reaction time

Using a cog psych task to measure how fast I can play various chords on demand.

Estimating practice time needed, and a bit on contextual interference

practice

cogsci

contextual interference

estimating practice time

practice schedules

Estimating how long I need to practice a scale with my own learning curve, and questioning how much to mix up practice.

Assessing my 7th chords with a reaction time test

practice

7th chords

jspsych

assessment

I made a jspsych task to test how fast I can play 7th chords.

Savings in relearning

relearning

practice

scales

Tracking performance improvements over time in learning the maj6 diminished scale

Practicing some Barry Harris methods

Barry Harris

practice

Just learning about Barry Harris’ system ideas and making notes about what I’m practicing.

Transitions in wonderland

scales

music theory

movement

diminished chords

Music theory ramblings, diminished chords, movement, Barry Harris, rabbit holes, going from here to there.

Modes…sigh

modes

scales

music theory

practice

Working on modes…again

The VERY Expressive Osmose

gear

osmose

MPE

It is so fun, and possibly a post that will get longer as I learn more about the osmose.

Turtle TRS-80 variations

track

Messing around with the EP-133 and Dreamshaper to make a series of cartoons with turtles and TRS-80 computers

D major practice

practice

Screaming modems

track

Chill vibe and pointless melody gets interrupted by dueling screaming modem solo battle that goes on for too long.

Back in the saddle

practice

Quantum Freeloader

practice

Quantic/Miles Davis inspired Freddie Freeloader reversion

Breaking out of the 4 bar drum loop

practice

Forcing myself to program some drum fills.

Recreating a beat from Quantic’s Life in the Rain

practice

An exercise in beat recreation.

Blogging for music motivation

quarto

Setting up a quarto blog for taking music notes.

Freddie Freeloader Wynton Kelly solo

practice

Notes on learning phrasing from the solo

Rootless 9th chords

practice

Running I∆7add9 chords through the circle of fifths.

7th first II-V-I

practice

A piano exercise

Scales in 7th chords

practice

A piano exercise

Cycling through Major 7ths

practice exercise

circle of fifths

Notes on a piano exercise.

Practice

motivation

circle of fifths

Starting up a blog about practicing and trying to practice more piano.

Dolphin Dance

quarto

A synthesized version of Herbie Hancock’s Dolphin Dance.

blog template

practice