Category: aleatoric

The point of this piece was to try out the iOS app “Riffer” which generates evolving midi within constraints. In this case I routed the output to my computer and captured a session where I constrained the scale to the whole tone scale but modulated between the two forms abruptly while changing octave and randomly pressing the “roll the dice” icon. This was fed to pianoteq in Wendy Carlos Just Intonation tuning (factory preset). I exported the midi and loaded it into Cakewalk and made two copies, one where I left the original with added sustain pedal and another I “de-gltiched” and stretched note duration by 400% and added a “inward circle” arpeggio. Below is the result with both tracks and sustain pedal overlay (the cakewalk arpeggio is not recorded).