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Rhythmic Overtones

Alex Allmont. Rhythmic Overtones. Motives behind LEGO pieces and ongoing research. Backstory. Generative musical sculptures, BEAM, Kinetica All Work and No Play Too Much Coffee Clash of the Fractions

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Rhythmic Overtones

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  1. Alex Allmont Rhythmic Overtones Motives behind LEGO pieces and ongoing research

  2. Backstory • Generative musical sculptures, BEAM, Kinetica All Work and No Play Too Much Coffee Clash of the Fractions • Full time coder and part time practice-based PhD – interacting and engaging with rhythm www.alexallmont.com

  3. 10 minute dash • MA • ideas behind practice, developing practice • PhD • questions, shaping ideas, aims • Demo • In progress rhythmic ideas www.alexallmont.com

  4. MA – developing practice • Honing in on core fascinations • Slowing - traffic calming, walking • Emergence - synchronicity, perception • Constraints - forcing alternate thought process • Exploratory sound work • Noise  beat frequencies • Group percussion • Clapping • 7 Breakfasts www.alexallmont.com

  5. MA – development pieces • LEGO work (see vimeo) • Missing Link • Music of the Gears • Plaiting machine • A rushed summary • practice focuses on sustaining apparent moments of emergence though constraints that slow or focus attention. www.alexallmont.com

  6. PhD – questions • Is there a connection between how we perceive harmonic intervals and polyrhythmic equivalents? • e.g. perfect 5thvs 3:2 polyrhythm • explore more complex ratios in rhythm • Can the meditation of phased performance be promoted to improvisation? • Reich, gamelan, traditional drumming  ways of indirectly interacting with rhythm www.alexallmont.com

  7. PhD - rhythmic ‘intervals’ • Tempo equivalents of perfect 4th, 5th and octave: 1:1 4:3 3:2 2:1 8:3 6:2 4:1 • these familiar jazz/latinpolyrhyhms as starting point www.alexallmont.com

  8. PhD – intervals in practice • Pythagorean Polyrhythmic Piano • interact with intervals • come and try it! • Other installations • Ride with Me • Clash of the Fractions • Too Much Coffee www.alexallmont.com

  9. PhD – sustaining attention • ‘Tipping point’ • Joke: setup punchline • Nature: noise  stability • Music: tension  release • Constantly balancing • Syncopation: moving rhythm • Phasing: Reich • Play: complex / simple www.alexallmont.com

  10. PhD – revised aims • Develop drum equivalents of overtones / timbre, shaping sounds • Tuvian throat singing (playing with resonance) • analogue synthesizers (e.g. drum equivalent of Josh Wink twiddling, dubstep wobbles?) • Pushing rhythmic palette: • Pythagorean / whole / tempered / dissonance • In summary: indirect, playful rhythmic interactions for both audience and performer www.alexallmont.com

  11. Demo • Polyrhythmic group jam prototype www.alexallmont.com

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