Centripetal Force - Nate Trier (Disquiet 0319) by Nate Trier

This week's assignment was to play a melody that repeats, but each time the melody repeats, one note(s) should not be heard.

I've been working on counterpoint with my students, so I was thinking about how "horizontal" affects our perception of consonance and harmony. I wrote a melody that outlines several triads - but when the first note of each iteration is taken away, a different triad is outlined.

The rhythm remains constant across every iteration of the melody (an isorhythm).

With the recording done, I used multiple instances of Ableton's Resonator to enhance the overtones of the triads I was outlining. Each chord is placed in a different place in the stereo field and gets a slightly different Delay setup to put it in a different "place" (lets pretend across the mountaintops).

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More on this 319th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Duly Noted: Make a composition with the same melody repeated but with notes appearing and disappearing) at:

https://disquiet.com/0319/2

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