Over the last few weeks, a lot of musicians, who normally contribute virtual instruments, demos, and information to the pianobook.co.uk web-site and forum, have been working on a collaborative 'systems music' project set off by Spitfire Audio's amazing Christian Henson (his Twitter picture should be on the left...) for Pianoday 2020 - the 88th day of 2020 (88 keys!). And, yes, I was a contributor...Here's the original 'call to arms' from the end of February 2020...
Here's the splash screen from just before the YouTube video of the World Premiere, which was at 17:00 on Saturday the 28th March 2020 (the 88th day, of course):
Christian explains a lot about how the music was made here.
My contribution...
For my contributions I used my MaxForLive chord device, ProbablyChord, to automate the chord sequence provided by Christian, and used the constrained random controls to produce random inversions of the chords. The sounds that I used were produced by the 'Synthesizerwriter's 29 Bagpipes' virtual instrument that is available free on pianobook.co.uk.
Here's the bit in the main 'Music by 300 Strangers' where you can see my screenshot:
...and in the credits...
Links:
Pianoday 2020. The official web-page for Pianoday 2020
Yamaha's Piano Day page. Yamaha's page on Pianoday 2020
pianobook.co.uk. The Pianobook page
The collaboration project Christian's 'call to arms'
systems music. What is 'systems music'?
ProbablyChord. My MaxForLive device that I used to make my contribution
Synthesizerwriter's 29 Bagpipes. The source of the sounds that I used in my contribution
YouTube video of the World Premiere. The World Premiere YouTube video...
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