[LAU] poly-rhythms

[Robert Vogel]

Have you tried Musescore ?


On 7/14/19 8:28 AM, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 2:00 PM Dominique Michel
> <dominique.c.michel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Le Sat, 13 Jul 2019 15:21:53 +0200,
>> Kjetil Matheussen <k.s.matheussen at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> Dominique Michel:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> In the gtk1 days, it was rhythmlab for experimenting with
>>>> polyrhythmic. http://www.panix.com/~asl2/music/RhythmLab/
>>>>
>>>> Today, it seam possible to do it with ableton. Is it some native
>>>> GNU/Linux solutions for such kind of rhythms?
>>>>
>>> Here's one way to do it in Radium:
>>> http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/2019-07-13_15-12-57.mkv
>>> (sound is a little bit screwed up in the recording, for some reason,
>>> but you get the idea)
>>>
>>> Is this somewhat similar to working in RhythmLab, except that you drag
>>> the length of sequencer blocks instead of changing the dragging the
>>> "period" slider?
>> It will be the occasion to make a gentoo ebuild for radium. Which imply
>> I will try it later.
>>
>> Rhytmlab can use a constant time both for a measure or for a beat.
>> A constant measure time imply a variable tempo between rhythms with
>> different number of beats, when a constant beat time imply a constant
>> tempo and variable LCM (least common multiple) of the number of beats
>> for the different rhythms, the LCM being the total number of beats for
>> the combined rhythms to start again.
>>
>> Rhythmlab was good for visualizing rhythms with constant measure time,
>> but I think the constant beat time approach is more realistic and
>> useful for live performances.
>> Also, rhythms with constant measure time can be see as triplets,
>> quintolet (in french, cinquillo in spanish), sextuplets and so on.
>>
> Okay. In Radium, I guess you rather would want to have different
> number of beats in each parallel block, and afterwards stretch them so
> that the duration matches,
> instead of having parallel blocks with lots of beats and then stretch
> them so that the duration does not match, as I showed in the video.
> Both ways are possible.
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