Arrangements
Happily Ever After
An original stage musical about a working class family struggling to keep together during the industrial revolution in England. Music, lyrics and book written by Nuri Korn and myself. Written and performed in high school (2008).
Algorithmic composition experiments
Celestial Music
This program is an experiment in composing piano music by tracing the movements of planets in our solar system. The code simulates a person observing the stars from a certain point on Earth, and with time on fast-forward, every planet rising or setting with relation to the observer's horizon becomes a musical event. The planet's varying distances from the Earth at any point in time determine the pitches.
View code on GitHub.
Accurate planet position data is provided by PyEphem.
Überfaotzel
A program that transforms and mutates a musical score by varying its note durations randomly. In this example, the program turned the first 8 bars of Mozart's overture to Die Zauberflöte into a five minute long piece. I'm not sure the result can be called music, but the prolonged orchestral textures and chord combinations are quite interesting.
View code on GitHub.
Rothko's Yellow Band
An experiment in composing minimalistic music based on a painting. The music is generated automatically by tracing the colors in the painting Yellow Band by Mark Rothko. The music is inspired by the style of Giacinto Scelsi's pieces that elaborate a single note by means of variations in tessitura, dynamics and timbre. The painting's colors are processed in two color spaces - Hue-Saturation-Lightness and Red-Green-Blue, and mapped to pitch, dynamics, orchestration and tessitura.
View code on GitHub.