Cordon Bleu is a compositional tool and infinite musical generator, coded in MaxMSP, which improvises a quartet of related melodies.
Two of these are derived by quantizing random integers to a scale, using a primitive sorting process which "drops" those notes which fall outside of its selection, leaving instead a gap or rest. This fumbling attempt to interpret incoming data leads to streams of notes which are intermittent, and which form phrases of various and constantly-changing lengths and rhythms.
The third and fourth melodies, which fill out the lowest and highest registers of sound, are produced by periodically drawing from inverted versions of the first duo of note sequences.These relationships are made visible using three different forms of musical representation: a minimal form of stave notation, a set of animated keyboards, and virtual oscilloscopes.
Cordon Bleu can be used to control other instruments over MIDI, but also produces its own sound using four triangle-wave oscillators plucked with fixed envelope.
☞ Upcoming additions: scale selection and looped pattern recording!☜
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