Wave Rows

Procedurally generated 12-tone micro compositions wave-like visualizers. 100 Pieces only - WARNING: flashing imagery - A tone row is a sequence of all 12 pitch classes (C -> B) in Western music. 12-tone composition encourages us to re-examine the tonal grammar that preceded it. Contrary to progression driven by the treatment of the tonic, 12-tone technique places equal importance on all notes. Generative art similarly asks us to re-examine the relationship between human creativity and the precise, but inert machine. "Wave Rows" creates a tone row in a single voice with no transformations. The pitch classes are determined by shuffling 0-11 with the Fisher-Yates algorithm and then voic...View all