Category Archives: Interactive Music

A waltz, somewhat mine, somewhat the user’s, somewhat random.

Sketch at http://gemuse.org/RandomMusic3

Code (and not pretty code either) at https://github.com/jareddfriedman/RandomMusic3/blob/master/mainCode

https://github.com/jareddfriedman/SoundMemoryGame/blob/master/MainCode

http://www.gemuse.org/SoundMemoryGame2/

Root, flat 3, flat 2, 4.

I’m still a little unclear on what the notes are supposed to be, though maybe that’s a feature and not a bug.

I think John Cage’s ideas are fascinating, and wonderful food for thought, but at the end of the day (and it certainly is the end of the day) I am a troglodyte. I like music that moves me in one way or another. I like songs. I like singles. I even like to dance.

The first two notes I (tentatively?) choose are the tonic and minor third (or major sixth). I use these terms very roughly, but it’s a relationship that I’ve always been enthralled by, and it seems to function in a particular way across a wide range of musical styles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAedphqfm7k

And then, if it helps to have more notes, I’d add the fourth and the minor second.