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Atonal Music and the Modern Fugue

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So, I finally convinced AI to perform serial music.  If you know, AI is very stubborn in creating everything tonal and consonant.  It's good at that, but you can modify midi to be strict and work with AI to create an atonal sound.

I like the idea of modern fugues to create a sound of undulating persistence.  The sound is deliberate.  Though, this fugue is more of a Passaglia, it's within reach.

fractal-fugue (46).mid

That sounds like a jazz piece with complex chord choices before 03:45 with a tons of synchropation.

I actually enjoy it - fresh and energetic

Curious what software and prompt/ constraint used to produce this music with AI?

That was an abrupt stop though. lol

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I used this prompt:

At 84 BPM, this 7-minute track fuses atonal, serialist synth pulses and evolving textures, building slowly with sparse, shifting patterns. Verses feature minimalist motifs and precise percussion, while choruses unleash glitchy break core and DnB drums—rapid, fragmented, and hyper-detailed.

It's a secret for now, but I created a website that generates atonal fugues at the press of a button:

Projects - David Harper

Then, with the generated midi file, I upload to Suno.com - it began picking up on atonal, serialism, and explicitly, Schoenberg.

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