meditation in tintinnabulation from Tetramorph on Vimeo.
Back in November (2008) I wrote some words of respect about Arvo Pärt and his compositional technique of "tintinnabulation." At the conclusion of that post I proposed a possible application for the monome that would be based directly upon that technique. I started a discussion about it in the monome community forum. Stretta responded and put together "tintinnabulome" in max/msp - without even having his monome with him. So this post is also a brief word of respect to Stretta: Thanks for all that you give so freely of your own creativity.
Now, as you may recall, occular gave us a beautiful Christmas carol last season with Stretta's realization of my brainstorm.
Since then dadek has done a couple of really beautiful meditations with tintinnabulome:
And also:
I find these truly beautiful. So I worked on my own tintinnabular meditation, some results of which are found in the video embedded at the top of the post. Although not as beautiful as dadek's, I am happy with it, and with the joy I had in producing it. Never mind that my dog is barking at the end. We can't all have meditative experiences at the same time, I suppose!
I hope it is meditative for you as well. Please share with me what you think. Thanks for reading, and thanks for the encouragement.
I hadn't spent any time looking into this app until today, and can honestly say that I am blown away by it, it seems to be one of those things that creates complexities by its simplicity if that makes any sense at all.
ReplyDeleteI thought both your, and dadek's expressions using it were beautiful, and very inspiring.
I often struggle for inspiration of late, so I think this app appears to be perfect for helping me find those inspirational building blocks to create new tracks, I'm looking forward to trying it out this weekend.
I think to record the output via midi, and then create layers with additional instances would make for a beautiful and intricate piece of work.
I am so thankful that this app is so appealing to many and that it is helping you, Auditory Canvas, in particular, to get back in touch with your creativity. I like the layered midi idea, I may try it myself!
ReplyDeleteIt is great to go from brainstorm to a really wonderful realized app. And I am not even a programmer! Or a professional musician. What a blessing to be a part of so great a community - here's to you, monome.