Programming sequences with Nicolas Slonimsky's Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Slonimsky's Thesaurus is quite a strange music book, but its impact on Jazz and experimental musicians has been enormous. Today we tiptoe into this extravagant world to see if there's anything interesting for our USTA sequencer! https://frap.tools/usta/ 00:00 Introduction: Slonimsky's Thesaurus 2:45 Pattern no. 1 04:02 Adding the bass 04:29 Rhythmic variation over pattern no. 1 04:47 Adding a tonal bass line 05:10 Cross-patching a CV for pitch-shifting the pattern 05:31 Quantizing the chromatic pattern 06:30 Integrating the notes and closing the filter 07:03 Pattern no. 141 08:09 Quantizing pattern no. 141 09:28 Pitch-shifting pattern no. 141 #fraptools #eurorack #pattern #modularsynth #musictheory #electronicmusic

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