2 weeks experimental jazz biab generative slothcore
Liner Notes
My unnecessarily very elaborate process to create a slothcore composition using automated tools.
I wanted to combine exploring all 7 modes with the do re mi and slothcore challenges. Slothcore challenge: https://fawm.org/forums/topic/11434/#c241149
Constraints: Walk Through the Circle of 5ths through all 7 modes from C to C 2 bars each at 35 bpm. Chords for modes taken from Guitar World Modes Lesson https://www.guitarlessonworld.com/lessons/modes/
Plug into BIAB with . _Chillout Style
Generate melody based on Do Re Mi of the tonic of the modal chord using random sequence generator. http://www.dave-reed.com/Nifty/randSeq.html
Plug resulting “melody into musescore and convert to midi.
Synth Preset for “melody Surge Synth: Bloom Fred Cormier.
Put the whole mess together in reaper and cross fingers.
Number of random letter sequences to generate: 30
Length of each random letter sequence: 8 (ie eighth notes)
Letters to choose from: drm0
d (do) r(re) m(mi) 0(rest)
* Treat multiples of a note as note of greater duration. Ie d= eighth note dd= quarter ddd=dotted quarter
Cmaj7: 0rdd0mr0 00rm0mrm
Fmaj7: m0mmdm0m dmmmdrdd
G7: ddrr0mmm mmrdmd0d
Cmaj7: 0rdrmmdr 0drmrr0m
Dm7: drr00d0d d0rdm00d
G7: 00mmdmrr md0ddrmr
Am7: 000ddrr0 m0rr0d0r
Dm7: dddmr0r0 mrrmmrdr
Em7: rm0r0dd0 rr00000d
Am7: rdd0m00r 0rrrmmm0
Bm7b5: r0rdmmrr 0mrdm0md
Em7: r0mrrmmm mdrdr0r0
Fmaj7: m0000d0m m0rddrmd
Bm7b5: dmm0r000 000rrrdm
Cmaj7: m0r0000m mrrd000r
Lyrics
No lyrics, but here is what the randomly generated melody ended up looking like.
@elesimo 1 week
I've listened to this a few times, but I always forget to comment! It's lovely, and I love your process. 😀
@moonraccoon 2 weeks
That simple melody, I kept expecting it to break into Happy Birthday. Very gentle, I'll bet the sloths are rockin' to it.
@calumcarlyle 2 weeks
Well this is odd! Just my opinion, perhaps, but this sounded like lullaby music from the other side! You might hear this in an elevator just as you lose consciousness! Really original concept though, kind of like Hammond organ slothcore.
@joefahey 2 weeks
Sean, you’ve perfectly captured the exact way I feel much of the time in this last year. Bravo!
@dzdandcunfsd 2 weeks
All that great panning is making me picture a sloth ice skating at a very slow pace, but being thrilled by the exhilaration of such speeds! 🤣 The melody is quite enchanting!
@heliosonorous 2 weeks
Nicely done, this has the feel of sloth core at a slow moving nightclub where all the people in the crowd are slothing around and just chilling to the cool tunes.
@freddie13 2 weeks
Great job..really sets the mood for a sloth..
@mikehex 2 weeks
I found this simultaneously highly enjoyable and vaguely unsettling. Well done!
@bradbrubaker 2 weeks
All the stuff going on in the background feels like the sloth snoring. Meanwhile the foreground piece is the sloth dreaming of movement at a normal pace through a candyland of wonderous sloth treats.
@moonraccoon 2 weeks
I must investigate the slothcore style before listening 😉
@dragondreams 2 weeks
I REALLY like this! And I totally get the "sloth" feeling with that "side-to-side shuffling" going on in the backing. This has really opened my eyes! 😉
@kellylog99 2 weeks
sooo awesome!!!