Seraphim

"Seraphim," is a CSound composition that utilizes the technology of, Kim Cascone's, instruments.

The song begins with an atonal fugue in two voices.  The atonal fugue develops to another fugue, in 8 voices.

Complexity becomes no foreshadow in storytelling, as it is overtly complex from the start value.  It's unnecessary pushing the boundaries of baroque music, peering through the universe in a serial kaleidoscope that has no mercy for mankind, the horrors it shares; think Lovecraft's, "Fungi of Yugguth."  It'll make you want to vomit, it'll make you want to die, but all this is typical of seeing a Seraphim at the beach, so to speak.

Behold the Seraphim, as you feast your ears on the deeper mystery of the universe.  As she plays in the beach, she gazes down as the drops of water fall back to the ocean.

Anyway, the amount of effort in going into this piece was unclocked.  Judging by the pdf, you can see instrument 3 had the most work done.  In this instrument, contains the information for the atonal fugue(s).  I want to thank, Kim Cascone, for making his instruments available:

Recontextualizing Ambient Music in Csound

"Seraphim," is a reaction to the essay.  When you place traditional music, ANY traditional song, on top of ambient music, you get a wonderful parallax effect.  I think the reality of the song is that it achieves what artists of the Renaissance couldn't achieve, which is the parallax.  I don't think the concept existed until, Physics, was discovered by Isaac Newton.

The beginning set for the opening fugue is, [0,4,6,11].  My PC did not catch fire writing this song, though if I were to compose it on my phone, rendering it would be a nightmare.

What I hope to achieve in, "Seraphim," is promoting my website, www.atonalfugue.net if you want to check it out; no feedback needed, you can just enjoy it!

 

Edited January 13Jan 13 by Vonias
Updated score with fixed typos

Very cool! I have no idea how to read your PDF file, but cool!

It is very exciting to listen to music with a philosophical or musicological point! The high frequency sounds make me shiver slightly, and I find myself adjusting the volume constantly, but this is most likely more because of my unfamiliarity with the genre and style. 

If I may ask, what do you mean by parallax?

Best regards,

Pyry from Finland.

@PaavolaPyry no one knows how to read a CSound score, so don't feel bad.😁

But, basically what it does is create a series of instructions that the computer interprets into music.

You bring up an important point, the use of parallax.  So, when you ride in a train and see objects passing in 2 dimensional space, you see the objects closer to you move faster than the objects in the background.  Music, can create this sense!  The concept is simple to have a melody, or fugue in the case of "Seraphim," move faster than the background ambient music.

The music is very discomforting, I'll admit, but CSound is such a new medium that anyone is throwing all they have at it to create a composition.  It's come a long way since beeps and boops.  The fluid design of the medium, large amounts of oscillation, and sound manipulation are what draw many composers to the medium.

Here is my first CSound composition:

Notte Splendida Notte | Astronomy 2009

It blends the opera singer with the medium to effect, icy cold with the passion of the voice in creating a composition.  It's a little easier to listen to.

2 hours ago, Vonias said:

@PaavolaPyry no one knows how to read a CSound score, so don't feel bad.😁

But, basically what it does is create a series of instructions that the computer interprets into music.

You bring up an important point, the use of parallax.  So, when you ride in a train and see objects passing in 2 dimensional space, you see the objects closer to you move faster than the objects in the background.  Music, can create this sense!  The concept is simple to have a melody, or fugue in the case of "Seraphim," move faster than the background ambient music.

The music is very discomforting, I'll admit, but CSound is such a new medium that anyone is throwing all they have at it to create a composition.  It's come a long way since beeps and boops.  The fluid design of the medium, large amounts of oscillation, and sound manipulation are what draw many composers to the medium.

Here is my first CSound composition:

Notte Splendida Notte | Astronomy 2009

It blends the opera singer with the medium to effect, icy cold with the passion of the voice in creating a composition.  It's a little easier to listen to.

 

Wow! Very interesting! I'd gladly learn more!

Ya! Sure, thing!

It's a very long process to create this music. I love the experience of rasterization, the beginning song sounds NOTHING like the end product.

It begins, simply: pen and paper.

First, compose the song. Envision it as best as know how.

Then becomes the fun part. So, I use Finale to create the sound and score file including Garritan instruments. Once I have the midi, I convert the midi file to a CSound score. From CSound, I also create the instruments, usually heavily inspired by, Kim Cascone! He's wonderful!

That's all it is! But, fair warning: the process takes weeks. lol

1 hour ago, Vonias said:

Ya! Sure, thing!

It's a very long process to create this music. I love the experience of rasterization, the beginning song sounds NOTHING like the end product.

It begins, simply: pen and paper.

First, compose the song. Envision it as best as know how.

Then becomes the fun part. So, I use Finale to create the sound and score file including Garritan instruments. Once I have the midi, I convert the midi file to a CSound score. From CSound, I also create the instruments, usually heavily inspired by, Kim Cascone! He's wonderful!

That's all it is! But, fair warning: the process takes weeks. lol

Wow yes, absolutely! I have done some shorter text-based scores before, often with a lot of improvisation and have often had these sort of textures in mind, one way or another... But here's a question: How do you approach form or the overall arc of the piece in this process? Asking because it is something I often struggle with myself.

-P

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