APOB - Pallindrome [disquiet0344] by APOB

Disquiet Junto Project 0344: Careful Symmetries
The Assignment: Explore palindromes in musical form.

I started working on this track last month and called it "Pallindrome", coincidence. I finished it off for this weeks project. The track is the result of recording multiple "takes" of Reaktor generative ensembles, and the Riff Generator Kontakt library into Logic Pro X. For the "chords" (really note clusters) I specified a key for each single line "take", and then 5 takes were recorded. Each note or non note occurred every quarter note. The resultant minute or so of MIDI was reversed and added to the end of the original to create the first palindrome. A second layer was created by using the first as a seed. the MIDI from the first part was fed into Riff Generator as an arpeggio to trigger note shifts in the generated riff. The generated MIDI was then reversed per the first step. The pad drone was created from the first two parts with the notes "merged", that is, that all the notes in the MIDI part were selected and then joined, to create long held notes.