This past long weekend I extracted some pieces from my Technics Digital Piano, so they can be posted to the web. Sound quality is not stellar, as it was recorded through the air, but... that seems to be the best I can do for now, though I am working on a re-jig of the whole piece so it can ultimately be recorded properly.
Some years back, I studied with a commercial music composer in Yaletown for about a year or so. During that time, my assignments included creating some one-minute pieces. The constraints were that the piece had to be exactly one minute (because often you will have to compose something that is exactly X min/seconds long, so you have to be able to do that) and use only repeating patterns of music. Tyro 2 is one of those pieces. Yes, I know, I have to work on my naming of pieces... but hey, if anyone wants to throw out some ideas, I'd entertain them.
At the time I wrote Tyro 2, I was also studying music theory at UBC, and one of the topics we had to learn was advanced polyrhythms, specifically from Indian descent. Imagine an entire class of students simultaneously reciting complex rhythms in syllables like ta-ki-ta-ta-ki-ta stressing a different syllable each time depending on the polyrhythm at hand. It was quite a sight to see. (Sidebar: A bit more on advanced polyrhythms and what that entails. Try tapping 3 times on your right hand and 2 on your left hand... not too bad, right? Now try tapping 5 on your right hand and 3 on your left... How 'bout 4 on the right hand and 7 on the left? It goes on and on). Anyway, this piece has some of that influence. Hope you enjoy.
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Cool, I really like that one. Go polyrhythyms.
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