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フ​ラ​グ​マ​ー 1 ("Furaguma I")

from Ballet M​é​canique by Eidon

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  • euqinacèM is a peculiar version of "Ballet Mécanique" (1923–24), "a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy" (Wikipedia). euqinacèM plays "Ballet Mécanique" in reverse -- from its last frame to its first -- and in fast motion: 64.58 frames per second. Finally, as a soundtrack, I applied my "GoHachi" (eidon.bandcamp.com/track/gohachi).

    I found the result truly surprising! Especially when you consider that I composed the music without considering the use I ended up making of it.

    Enjoy!

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  • This is my second Dada experiment, following "euqinacèM" that I published a few months ago. The video is Walther Ruttmann's "Lichtspiel Opus 1", which has been sped up to match my track "Seventy-Four" (eidon.bandcamp.com/track/seventy-four).

    Ruttman's first Opus was created between 1919 and 1921, and is the "oldest fully abstract motion picture known to survive, using only animated geometric forms, arranged and shown without reference to any representational imagery" (M. Betancourt, "Walther Ruttmann's Lichtspiel Films". Cinegraphic. Cited by Wikipedia).

    The geometrical shapes in Léger and Murphy's "Ballet Mécanique" clearly owe to Ruttman's. For a strange kind of serendipitous magical audiovisual xenochrony, both videos appear to be in synch with my tracks, despite the fact that the decision to use them as soundtracks came to me long after I had composed them. In sooth, magic does exist!So here's to you my Klang- und Lichtspiel. I hope you'll like it!

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This is "(フラグマー 1)" ("Furaguma I"), an algorithmic-music piece based on a compositional approach that I called Wohlgestaltete Komposition. It is a hybrid process, in which machine and man cooperate. In a nutshell, I identify musical quanta that represent initial configurations for [a game simulator](https://gitlab.com/Eidonko/HeartQuake).

When fed into the simulator, those “μQuanta" produce 3-voice music fragments. I select the μQuanta that produce fragments that I consider of interest, and I compose them together. I consider the music emerging from the combined fragments, and I operate modifications in the order and quantity of μQuanta in order to accentuate musical aspects that enhance my perception of the overall musical quality and to dampen aspects that I consider detrimental to that subjective concept of quality.

I continue the process by disrupting the selected μQuanta by flipping / adding / subtracting certain elements. Those disruptions in some cases aim at producing more "balanced" initial configurations, such that the corresponding games and music fragments last longer. In some other cases they may be purely random.

I include the disrupted μQuanta in the ongoing compositional process, and continue to build up the "piece" until its overall shape and contents assume what I arbitrarily recognize as a unique "identity".

I refer to the overall selection of μQuanta in a piece such as "Fragma I" as to "the Grundgestalt of Fragma I".

In fact, the term "Wohlgestaltete" means "well-shaped", but it's actually a reference to the above process of selection of μQuanta that shape up the piece by defining its "basic form" -- its Grundgestalt.

When time allows, I will write a paper describing the Wohlgestaltete Komposition. I would appreciate it very much if you would have suggestions regarding possible target journals. Thank you!

- 栄屯

On #Youtube: youtu.be/mwTj0YuZ6TM, on www.youtube.com/@eidonveda.

#μQuanta #WohlgestalteteKomposition. #Grundgestalt
#GenerativeMusic #AlgorithmicComposition

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from Ballet M​é​canique, track released November 4, 2022
Credits:
- Music by Eidon, (c) Eidon (Eidon@tutanota.com). All rights reserved.
- Logo: Two of the 37 fragments from Manuscript Mi 75, a Missale crafted in a Trondheim scriptorium around 1150--1200. P33_FRAGMENT_IMG_ID:181,429. In Lilli Gjerløw: Ordo Nidrosiensis Ecclesiae (Oslo 1968), p. 92, n. 2 (as 878a), books.google.be/books/about/Ordo_Nidrosiensis_ecclesiae.html?id=7y-ZnQEACAAJ and fragments.app.uib.no/apex/f?p=657:33:::::P33_CODEX_ID,P33_FRAGMENT_IMG_ID:181,429
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Video: Reversed fragments from "Hawaii’s Spectacular Volcano Eruptions" (archive.org/details/0892_Hawaiis_Spectacular_Volcano_Eruptions_01_29_49_00), 1960. Photography by Art Carter with help of Fred Rackle, John Bonsey, Claude Jendrusch.

Comment from the Mi 75 web page:
"One of the challenges in sorting out the fragments from Mi 75 is that the scriptorium seems to have a rather casual attitude to ruling – two pages of the same leaf can have different writing space, and the columns may be of different widths. Lat. fragm. 896, 1-4 are related to Mi 75 through initials, pigment and parchment, but differ in scribe, music scribe and format. Still, the scribe seems to be imitating the main scribe of Mi 75, and may therefore have collaborated on the same book."

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Jazz, neo-classical, avant-pop, generative.

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"Eidon put ook uit mathrock, minimal music, jazz, etnische muziek... Hij zou perfect passen als support van Gogo Penguin, Battles of Dijf Sanders en kan op termijn misschien wel een plaats veroveren op zowel Rock Werchter als Gent Jazz of Couleur Café. Benieuwd hoe hij dit live brengt"

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