Thursday, June 27, 2013

I have a need to tell you about Tonematrixes

Two tiny testimonials

What is thees thing, what you call it, a tonematrix?

Here are the hints:

Here's the lay of the land in a tonematrix, before we continue with hints 2, 3 and 4:

Back to the hints

Software that must be installed on your web browser to play a Tonematrix loop animation. Why it's necessary.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

I'll play it and tell you what it is later

OK, check it out:

Instant chord symbol animations for chord progressions

Open the page for If I Were A Bell in The Changes

Follow the SongTrellis Excerpt Service link and press the Play button that appears on that page Follow the "Launch Tunetext page for this except" link that appears below the Play button at the instant the excerpt starts to play. On the Tunetext page, press the Perform a Chord Change Animation button that appears to the right of the score that is displayed.

SongTrellis plays Interval Animations

Follow this link to a Tunetext page for "The Shell Cracks Now". Press the "Perform an Interval Animation" button, which appears in the middle button group that is positioned to the right of the music score on a Tunetext page, whenever a score is eligible to launch an Interval Animation (ie. it includes a melody track and a chord accompaniment track).

An optional presentation, the Interval Flow, can be generated while an Interval Animation plays

The Harmonic Interval Palette

It's accessible via the Harmonic Interval Palette link on the link bar. For me, that's on the bottom line of the link bar.

The Leap to Harmonic Interval page

Where to find the link: Leap to Harmonic Interval currently appears immediately after the Harmonic Interval Palette link on the bottom line of the SongTrellis link bar.

New Chord Grid behavior - Chord cycle animations

Music tool lore pages

Sunday, January 20, 2013

George Coleman should be recognized as a Jazz Master

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Dave, what have you been doing recently?

What's a tonematrix?

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How do you play with a tonematrix?

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How does a tonematrix work?

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A tonematrix can animate a musical idea in an instant

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What makes a tonematrix loveable?

Here's a three sentence beginner's instruction to get someone rolling with a Tonematrix: Click on a grid square. If you dislike what you hear, toggle it off with a click and click a different square in a different column, until you hear something that you like. Click on squares to add new pitches to your loop until you feel like you have composed a complete idea.

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I love how quickly I can find new musical ideas when I use a tonematrix.

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Shape shift an idea into something better

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Intuition gained from tonematrix can motivate learning the musical lingo and concepts that will allow one to compose easier and with better control (my belief)

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Perhaps parallel kinds of music animations can help

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When a tonematrix is used, there's enough musical safety built in that it's hard to roll into an instant train wreck, which nearly always happens when a beginner touches a new instrument or music production tool.

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Your webmaster Dave Luebbert's Tonematrix testimony

Testimonial hat on:

Testimonial hat off.

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An amazing thing I discovered once I had a Tonematrix available to play with

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The Demos

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

A new Play Rhythm service and its rhythm descriptions

SongTrellis Rhythm Descriptions - the simplest building blocks

Thursday, January 6, 2011

SongTrellis Rhythm Notation and the playRhythm service on SongTrellis

Advantages of using the SongTrellis playRhythm specification language to notate rhythms

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Score Animations Rendered in a few seconds by a new SongTrellis Animation Service

What does a score animation look like?

Here are several animations I created while I tested and debugged the Animation Server:

Luebbert, why are you working on this?

You can make score animations for yourself using the SongTrellis site right now

Click on music to play

Watch for the "Create an animation" link on Tunetext pages

You can customize a score a great deal by tweaking Tunetext parameters before you send it to be animated.

Any other easy ways to get hold of a Tunetext page so we can start an animation?

Can I animate an existing musical composition that I have music for?

Can I animate a score that I've composed using SongTrellis Workscore Composer page?

Monday, August 24, 2009

I've been making lots of jazz, Brazilian and New Orleans music recos (recommendations in Lala-speak) over on the Lala site today.

Here are the recos to new music I've received that I listened to today that I thought were keepers:

Here's music I discovered today by watching the listening activity of the 50-some people I follow on Lala:

Saturday, August 22, 2009

New Public Ideas Department

Thursday, April 23, 2009

New hardware and software for the SongTrellis site

I'm upgrading the MacMini that handles music editing requests on SongTrellis.

If you use the Excerpt Service, the Chord Grid, Tunetext, or any of the Workscore editing pages (Workscore Composer, Workscore Chord Entry, or Chord Entry By Grid), all of those functions now execute on that Mac Mini. As a result, you should notice that just about any operation you execute on those pages will respond a quarter second to a half second faster.

If I've done my job right, that's really all you should notice about this change. If you find any feature of the site that's not working the way you expect, let me know, and I'll see if it's happening because of the changes I've made to the server setup. I should be able to fix such problems pronto.

I'm also right on the verge (tomorrow, if all goes well) of making a big change to the way SongTrellis is hosted. Ever since I opened the site, the site's server software has run on Dell Power Edge servers that run a Microsoft Small Business operating system.

That new MacMini is powerful enough to do everything the Dell servers did, and will be much less of a hassle to maintain and less costly to run.

Unless I hear of terrible problems, tomorrow I'll make the change that will cause SongTrellis to be entirely hosted on the new MacMini. This means that I'll change the site's configuration so that when a user asks to see a page on songtrellis.com, that request will be directed to IP address 216.168.47.12, the address of the Mac Mini, rather than 216.168.60.220, the IP address of the Dell server.

This configuration change will be noticed by all of the name server computers in the world over a 24 hour period. When the name server that provides your web browser with the IP address for songtrelis.com finally notices this change, your web requests will begin to be handled by the new MacMini server.

Earlier this afternoon, I copied every member Workscore from the Dell server to the Mac Mini. Around 4pm PST, I changed all of the music editing links on the SongTrellis linkbar to use URL's that run on the MacMini server.

If for example, you followed the "Workscore Composer" link, you would find that it now loads a URL that reads as http://216.168.47.12/workscoreComposer2 rather than http://www.songtrellis.com/workscoreComposer2. That way when I change the name service record for the site, there will be no possibility that you'll make edits to your workscore that will be forgotten when all processing shifts over to the MacMini.

24 hours after I make the name service change, I'll change the music editing URLs on the site again so that they all point to www.songtrellis.com.

This whole website migration process should be complete sometime late on Saturday.

If you run across any problems, let me know via email at davidlu at songtrellis.com. You can also call me via Skype. My Skype ID is daveluebbert.