SI28-Radio-Worm/Week4

In this week's XPUBer Radio Show, Sibyl brings us her Live Coding Music, Soda brings us his interviews in Rotterdam over The past few weeks, and Phillp will introduce his novel The Dragon of Arnhem.

Hosts

Kiki, Sibyl, Phillip, Soda, Robin

Marco provided us with technical assistance

Group Photo by Robin !

Robin !

Recap of the Show

Music | Sibyl: Live Coding Music

🎵 playing The Prelude in C major by Johan Sebastian Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier

PROTOCOL:

• One chord per bar
• A fixed arpeggio pattern
• Continuous sixteenth-note texture

• Texture and pattern must remain consistent

Writing Machine SAMPLE ONE:

this is the music note of The Prelude in C major, I visualised this note to see the repeat pattern easily...

Writing Machine SAMPLE TWO:

PROTOCOL:

• Two given cycle lengths (90*0/20, 90*0/20 etc.)
• Defined subdivisions

• Defined temporal alignment

// "polyrhythms"
stack(
  n("0").cpm(90*0/20),
n("1").cpm(90*1/20),
n("1.5").cpm(90*2/20),
n("2").cpm(90*3/20),
n("2.5").cpm(90*4/20),
n("3").cpm(90*5/20),
n("3.5").cpm(90*6/20),
n("4").cpm(90*7/20),
n("4.5").cpm(90*8/20),
n("5").cpm(90*9/20),
n("5.5").cpm(90*10/20),
n("6").cpm(90*11/20),
n("6.5").cpm(90*12/20),
n("7").cpm(90*13/20),
n("7.5").cpm(90*14/20),
n("8").cpm(90*15/20),
n("8.5").cpm(90*16/20),
n("9").cpm(90*17/20),
n("9.5").cpm(90*18/20),
n("10").cpm(90*19/20),
.sound("piano").scale("<C:major D:minor G:major>").slow("2")

*copy the coding pattern from Strudel's Bakery

Writing Machine SAMPLE THREE:I tried to incorporate the concept of CONTRAFACT and built a writing machine using strudel.

PROTOCOL:

• Fixed chord progression
• Fixed 32-bar AABA form
• Fixed harmonic rhythm

setcpm(81/4)
//$:n("1 -4 -4 -4 1 -4 -4 -4").chord("F#m").voicing().sound("gm_acoustic_bass").lpf(500).room(.6).gain("2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1")
$:sound("<bd - sd -,hh hh hh hh>*8").bank("RolandTR808")
$:n("<-4*8 -7*8 -9*8>").chord("F#m").voicing().sound("gm_acoustic_bass")
$:n("<-4 -4 1 5 7 5 3 1>*8").chord("A").voicing().sound("gm_xylophone")

//$:"<Am Fm F>"
.pick({
  Am: "57,60,64", 
  Fm: "57,60,65",
  F: "54,57,62"
})
.note()

City | Soda: The City of Rotterdam as a Writing Machine

Soda believes that Rotterdam itself is a huge writing machine. People living here constantly create stories. So he chose to interview those who are still active on the streets of this city at night, asking them for their views on the city and their stories.

Writing | Phillip: The Dragon of Arnhem and Death in London

The radio show was a blast! I talked about my books, The Dragon of Arnhem and Death in London. Dragon of Arnhem is about a famous military operation in the Netherlands named Operation Market Garden written from three perspectives, a 30th British Corpsman, a British 1st airborne paratrooper, and a German Dutch resistance fighter. It tackles themes of love, kindness, compassion, prophecy, and destiny. Death in London is the sequel which introduces two new characters in the form of a frost vampire and an ordinary girl living in Berlin. It tackles themes of memory, history, the supernatural, what's real and what's not