Week 8: Modular Synth! (& individual meetings)

• Thursday June 13th at 12pm!

• Can you figure out what's going on with the meter here?
• Writing for piano:
  • Take a listen to this chopin prelude. How is the pattern in the left hand connected to the melody in the right hand?
  • Another Chopin Prelude. Listen to the way the left hand carries the melody like a cello. When does the right hand take over and why? Also, how does Chopin help the music to continue across the barline, not feel divided up by the barlines.
• Film Music:
  • A Great Explanation of Leitmotifs!
  • Leitmotifs from the ring cycle
• Notating Rhythms by Ear:
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Weird minimalist music:
  • READ THIS FIRST. It's a short text by Steve Reich, one of the pioneers of minimalist / process-based music, and it should help to make sense of the following musical examples.
  • It's Gonna Rain: Listen to this long enough that your perception changes and you no longer hear it as speech.
  • I am Sitting in a Room. Read about it here, and listen to different parts of the recording.
  • Piano Phase. Read about it here and check out this neat visualization
• Listen to these podcast episodes:
  • Stroh violin (starting at 25 minutes in)
  • Reality TV sound effect

BREAK:

Modular Synth!