#composition
- Arrangement — think in 4s and 8s conceptAlmost all chiptune and EDM breathes in 4- and 8-bar phrases. Introduce or remove one element every 4 or 8 bars: drop the bass out, bring the drums in, transpose the whole thing up, add a counter-melody. Repetition is …
- Writing melodies that work conceptTwo questions decide a melody note: is it in the current chord? and is it on a strong beat? Chord tones on strong beats (rows 0, 4, 8, 12 of a 16-row bar) make the melody sound anchored; non-chord scale notes are …
- Mick Rippon personComposition student from Newcastle, Australia, with three years of Amiga ProTracker and, from mid-1995, ST3 and FT2 on the PC; interviewed by DennisC for traxweekly 's Faces in the Crowd in January 1996, after FITC's …
- TW #46 — Serial Composition (shawnm / NOISE) summaryA short introduction to twelve-tone technique plus a 1994 music-history essay on Anton Webern, offered to the scene as "just another compositional technique to take into account". The author is shawnm , the Shawn of …