#compositional experiments

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theoryofswag suggested a text for the earlier experiment that I thought pertinent enough to the project's subject matter that it was worth trying, too:

"Richard P. Feynman said, To those who do not know mathematics, it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature."

The notes this time encouraged a major key, and the tempo's a bit higher, as well as some additional orchestration in the midsection. Enjoy, and, as always, feedback is welcomed.

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In response to the earlier post, misterchu submitted the text:

"A bag is packed. The man being left tries to save himself by allowing his life to tumble across his lips. All of his stories fall out, irrelevancies, laundry lists & places to park on the Southside of Chicago. This is everything he thinks, so little."

The melody in this piece is note for note a representation of that text (with the single exception of replacing the ampersand with the word 'and'), derived via the methods discussed in earlier posts. Enjoy.

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A proof of concept. Idle and a bit bored this morning, I thought to combine two earlier experiments, and so produced this brief piece. Using the concepts discussed in my post on Borges' "Library of Babel" of a couple of weeks ago, I encyphered a simple sentence into its integer representation; and using the methods I employed last July to produce a song from the digits of the mathematical constant of Euler’s γ, I turned that number into this bit of piano.

It is nothing spectacular, just, as above, a proof of concept to show that any piece of text can be expressed as music.