Charles Fox

[gusl]

One of the most interesting people I met at the Summer School was Charles Fox, from Oxford, who is interested in musical scene analysis.

Here's a lovely demo of blending Bach with the Spice Girls.

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[letters-in-sand.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of at least two things.

1. A quote I wrote down from The Light of Other Days...
one of the characters saying that all pop music was "expert-system extrapolated garbage." Something about that hit me just right, probably because so many radio songs can already be easily identified as having the same chord pattern (etc.) as previous radio songs. That time is coming, when we'll have computers "compose" songs based on music structures that have already proven to be pleasing to the masses ... instead of doing it ourselves.

2. some banjo music I was listening to yesterday. one part of one song has them playing a really short phrase, raising the key a half step, playing it again... five or six times in a row. and I was listening to how that musically gave the impression of tension building, and thinking how that's funny since the notes get higher as you put more tension on the strings.
It's got me thinking.