Ars Nova

Ed Kelly’s “Islands 2” Pd Patch

I’ve been working on implementing a Kalman filter for Pd. This is a very simple 1-dimensional version that works nicely for cleaning up sensor data.

The source is staged at https://github.com/jwmatthys/kalman-pd

My oral defense is over. What to do now?

I passed my DMA comprehensive exam!

My song “Terms of Venery” for baritone and piano, sung by the late great Wes Brax. Drew Dolan on marimba and spoken voice.

Harmonicity, variation 1

Harmonicity

That one student you regret calling on

wheninmusicology:

HARMONICITY

The inspiration for this code came from a passage I read for a class on Renaissance music last week:

“The Pythagorean tradition that persisted throughout the Middle Ages and early Renaissance defined consonance in numerical terms. The intervals that were products of string-length ratios expressible by the number one to four were consonances; the rest were dissonances.” - Claude Palisca, “An Italian Renaissance in Music?”