Weaving Music
https://reubenson.com/weavingWeaving Music is an exploration of the materiality of sound through the metaphor of weaving, the loom re-imagined as a music sequencer.
I began developing this project in the summer of 2019, at a studio residency at EMS in Stockholm, where I used MIDI signals generated by this app to control voicings produced on their Buchla and Serge synthesizer systems.
In the end, this project attempts a fairly straightforward translation of weaving notation to music notation, in that patterns are read from left to right as columns along the warp (vertical threads hung on a a weaving loom). In the current version, there are two ways of interpreting how a column should be handled: as octaves (in octave mode) or as a canon (in canon mode).
These various modes offer different expressions of the underlying harmonic structure of the chord selected to go with the weaving pattern.
In sharing this software, my hope is that you too may find it useful for harmonic and rhythmic research and discovery, sharing some similarity in intent to the historical Triadex Muse.