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Elements 13: Aluminium

Oscar van Dillen Posted on March 8, 2023 by oscarMarch 8, 2023

Aluminium became a study in plurality within singularity.

Its basic sound story was developed from the sources mentioned before. These were then brought into many layered mutual phase modulations, in this way adding new harmonies while suppressing others by phase cancellations, or by almost phase cancellations. In this way an extremely complex moving sound mass was created from which the work to be was to be sculpted in several stages, a process akin to distillation almost.

Sculpting and mixing variations until coherent versions were found was the next stage, some versions were close to or over an hour long and needed drastic shortening.

In the end three versions came out from which one was chosen to serve as the master for the final process. It is this final process which you will find documented in the graphic score further down. The accelerando was chosen for both increasing intensity and duration shortening.


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Students categorizing music 2019

Oscar van Dillen Posted on September 22, 2019 by oscarAugust 5, 2020

Introduction When provoking thinking about music in teaching I am used to asking my students how they personally conceptualize and position music in itself, asking them to describe and position music as a middle level category in between 2/3 contained subsets and 2/3 containing supersets. This assignment I call: …
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Posted in Posts | Tagged music philosophy, music theory, philosophy, students

Forecast

Oscar van Dillen Posted on October 8, 2016 by oscarSeptember 23, 2019

FORECAST “Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty and live with your head in the clouds” Theme This production has a threefold output: A film, to be showed in movie theaters A film, to which the music can be performed live (with and/or without the soundscape track) A composition …
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Posted in Composition, Posts | Tagged animation, composition, short film

Students categorizing music 2016

Oscar van Dillen Posted on September 18, 2016 by oscarSeptember 25, 2016

Introduction When provoking thinking about music in teaching I am used to asking my students how they personally conceptualize and position music in itself, asking them to describe and position music as a middle level category in between 2 contained subsets and 2 containing supersets. This assignment I call: …
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Posted in Music theory, Posts | Tagged music philosophy, music theory, philosophy, students

Whiteboards October 2014

Oscar van Dillen Posted on October 7, 2014 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in October 2014. All these images and whiteboards deal with art and music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional …
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Whiteboards September 2014

Oscar van Dillen Posted on September 25, 2014 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in September 2014. All these images and whiteboards deal with art and music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional …
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Whiteboards December 2013

Oscar van Dillen Posted on December 6, 2013 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

silent night – world sleep tight – crisis not bite – wrong is right ©Oscar van Dillen 2011 Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in December 2013. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages …
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