The Highly Educated Beast from The Oriental East

Here's a little piece of "music" I made for a friend.

It's supposed to depict a Highly Educated Beast from The Oriental East.

Can you guess the time-signature?

It's pretty fun, it could easily be a 90's platform game music I don't see, however, what's so "educated eastern" about it, and why you imply that oriental eastern beasts are not educated :|

>_>

But anyway, I fail to see how this is avant-garde... :X

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Oh, the time-signature should be 15/8? or 15/16, depending on the tempo..

but what's the point of testing us to see the tempo, really

Originally Posted by jujimufu

It's pretty fun, it could easily be a 90's platform game music I don't see, however, what's so "educated eastern" about it, and why you imply that oriental eastern beasts are not educated :|

>_>

But anyway, I fail to see how this is avant-garde... :X

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Oh, the time-signature should be 15/8? or 15/16, depending on the tempo..

but what's the point of testing us to see the tempo, really

Haha..

I've done my job, I made you confused..

The time sig is 10/8..
and I don't see how it's not avante-garde. How do you define avante-garde?

Well, I could write a piece with a time signature of 4/4 and make it sound like 19/34, but that's not the point of time signatures The pulse (i.e. the implied time signature, the one *we* hear) is 15/8.

Firstly, if you can't define avant-garde yourself (i.e. don't know what it is), then your piece is almost definitely not avant-garde "Avant-garde" literally means "front guard" in French, and was used to described the people who were in the very front of the battle field. In the Arts, someone who is an "avant-garde" artist is an artist who pushes the limits further, who "moves music forward", if you want a crude terminology.

Composers such as Stockhausen and Boulez may have been considered avant-garde back in the 50s and 60s, but I doubt many composers would be called "avant-garde" today (even composers such as Carter and Crumb, they are not pushing things any further anymore, they have stayed where they first stepped earlier in their careers - so back then, they were avant-gardists, but not now).

If you want to read a bit more elaborate definitions of "avant-garde", check: avant-garde - Definitions from Dictionary.com or even the wikipedia article.

Now, how does your piece fit in that description?

it a,,, sounds more like a

The Highly Uneducated Beast
Slow tempo,,,,,,,and mostly only 2 keys make the feel.

Just to clarify, this song is but an experiment and was made as a joke to a friend.

Yes, I still fail to see how it is avant-garde. In fact, it would be avant-garde 200 years ago (unless it was written for midi ensemble, in which case it would be ).

Originally Posted by jujimufu

Yes, I still fail to see how it is avant-garde. In fact, it would be avant-garde 200 years ago (unless it was written for midi ensemble, in which case it would be ).

Perhaps I want it to be played by a monkey-midi-ensemble.

It still isn't avant-garde, and since you're not taking this seriously enough, this is the point where it stops being funny.

Someone just got Juji-fied Yes, poor him, two months in intensive mental care