Peter
MEASROCH
Music
Left SA at 21 for the UK in the early 70's. Surrounded by rock icons in the wilds of the English countryside was soon hooked up with singer Leo Sayer for a Speakeasy debut and US expats Daddy Longlegs (below) for touring and recording.
LtoR in photo: Thom Mitz -bass, Cliff Carrison - drums, Norton Holderman - guitar and yrs truly, hat....
"Music is a hidden exercise of arithmetic of the soul, unaware that it is counting."
Leibniz 1712, as cited by Janusz Podrazik, creator of Opusmodus software.
parametric composition...
Music and math go together - this is very true for tabla with its often complex taals, kaida and tihai improvisations.
For some time now I have been having a lot of fun working with a fairly recent and amazing LISP based software called
This link above will take you to Opusmodus' site which wi explain far better than I can here the way it works. Essentially it is a computer-assisted composition program in which the composer is always in complete control. Intent is everything.
The creators of the program come out of the 20th century classical tradition of "new" music and steep as the learning curve may be on the programming side, it is a voyage of discovery for the techniques that are part of that tradition.
The print here, entitled 3+3 = 2, by French artist Annie Gévaudan evokes for me the
playfulness of composing tin this fashion.
blues fughetta...
a piece I'm working on in Opusmodus to be posted soon in this space...