Hello everyone,
I have been recently engaging with the Schillinger System of Musical Composition and I am trying to understand what are the ideas that Tidal implements, and how much.
For starters, I find that combining patterns relates to the concept of binomial periodicities (see this if you are curious).
Has anyone spotted anything related to it, e.g. harmony?
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Thank you so much for this! I had lost my copy of my Schillinger book in my travels and reading this again now is wonderful! will keep this in mind and will let you know if I find more relationships with Tidal. Best, Alex
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So lovely to see a reply!
Thank you Alexandra, looking forward to discussing it
It would be interesting, for starters, to understand if pattern combination really follows Schillinger's theory of rhythm, or if it is just because I want to see it.
PS: I am currently trying to understand to what extent I can fit Schillinger and Neo-Riemannian theory into Tidal without going too "against" the idea underlying it. I feel like I need some more higher level structure - musician's bias, I suppose
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Your post here made me discover the Schillinger System and I have started reading a bit on it. At first glance I do think there might be a nice connection to Tidal. I have to investigate more though.
Cool that you mention the Neo-Riemannian theory, I thought about implementing uniformic triad transformations into tidal to generate simple chord progressions. There has been also some recent work to extend the approach to seventh chords.
This is a really cool blogpost I can recommend:
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That is lovely, so many times have I thought to implement these concepts but I am always kind of blocked because truth is, I am not confident with Tidal codebase - I am more of a Python guy
Great to see that you know Alexandre's blog!
Please reach out if you are interested in further discussing these topics
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