Graham English

Archive for March, 2009

Google Something Better

This is just a little challenge. John Battelle wrote about the “database of intentions” in his book, The Search. If you look at our search history, it tells us who we are and what we value. Our Google searches are the artifacts of our culture. Really, it’s just a small challenge. Google something better.

No Resolution

On the one hand, I feel like I can’t take any credit for this piece because I didn’t play a lick of it. On the other hand, I spent a lot of time creating the rules that would compose this music in real-time.

Visualizing Relative Beat Strength

I was taught to organize rhythms into increments of two measures at a time. Some beats/pulses get a natural emphasis in relation to their placement in the measure. I put together this illustration of the most natural points of relative emphasis in a 2-measure unit of rhythm.

Coins In The River

This is my first attempt at composing generative music.