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Ancient AI

from Ancient AI by Lee Barry

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A generative work based on one small looped MIDI file playing various synth patches and samples, and three gapped scales to be used for improvisation (its "DNA").

The tempo can be set at multiples of itself (e.g. 46/92/184), and played as layered polyrhythms. (For example, the MIDI file can loop at 92 on another sample running at 184, against another one running at 46.)

Chord Changes: G# min / A / G#min / F#min / E / C#min

The scales are designed to create tension and release by introducing dissonant intervals through cells and tetrachords, as opposed to playing them as random free tones. Playing the E minor pentatonic against a C#minor, F#minor or G#minor tonalities lets the G and D natural clash in interesting ways with the G# and D# as a kind of "planned accident", simply by using that particular set of pitches. In some sense it is "harmolodic", but is not derivative of harmony or chords but rather through the intentional interplay with the polarities of consonance and dissonance at the linear level, not as dissonant chords.

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from Ancient AI, released April 22, 2017

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