Category Archives: Workbench
Two-Faced Snare Drum
Starting from Johan’s article Alternative pulses in pulse-based music I tried to get a simple comparison on the Workbench. Two excerpts from two pieces in straight 4/4 bars. Both of them bear an alternative pulse inside them. The alternative pulse
Two-Faced Snare Drum
Starting from Johan’s article Alternative pulses in pulse-based music I tried to get a simple comparison on the Workbench. Two excerpts from two pieces in straight 4/4 bars. Both of them bear an alternative pulse inside them. The alternative pulse
A Delayed First Beat
Pieces which are built with a steady pulse and a steady meter normally make use of that grid without disrupting or confusing it. Pulse and regular bars serve as base to other components which move into the foreground and become
A Delayed First Beat
Pieces which are built with a steady pulse and a steady meter normally make use of that grid without disrupting or confusing it. Pulse and regular bars serve as base to other components which move into the foreground and become
Alternative pulses in pulse-based music
In many pieces of music we are presented to a rhythm that is creating some kind of friction against the main pulse. But stil there are not very many examples, in music where pulse is a dominant element, to push
Alternative pulses in pulse-based music
In many pieces of music we are presented to a rhythm that is creating some kind of friction against the main pulse. But stil there are not very many examples, in music where pulse is a dominant element, to push
POOL TOOL Applied on Decelerating Shape (Part 2)
This second part is all about decelerating shapes without the grid of a steady pulse. (To part one: Decelarating shapes inside a steady pulse) As it happens, the pieces I worked on here contain accelerating shapes more or less in
POOL TOOL Applied on Decelerating Shape (Part 2)
This second part is all about decelerating shapes without the grid of a steady pulse. (To part one: Decelarating shapes inside a steady pulse) As it happens, the pieces I worked on here contain accelerating shapes more or less in
POOL TOOL Applied on Decelerating Shape (Part 1)
I have this fascination for accelerating and, even more, decelerating shapes. Most of them don’t take longer than a few seconds. When applying the Pool Tool on pieces, it quite soon became clear that it would make sense to distinguish
POOL TOOL Applied on Decelerating Shape (Part 1)
I have this fascination for accelerating and, even more, decelerating shapes. Most of them don’t take longer than a few seconds. When applying the Pool Tool on pieces, it quite soon became clear that it would make sense to distinguish
THE HEAVY DROP Applied on Vampire Weekend’s “Finger Back”
Ever since I first listened to “Finger Back” by Vampire Weekend, this opening drum beat struck me. It reappears throughout the whole song and never loses that intensity. I tried to somehow get behind why it is so special and
THE HEAVY DROP Applied on Vampire Weekend’s “Finger Back”
Ever since I first listened to “Finger Back” by Vampire Weekend, this opening drum beat struck me. It reappears throughout the whole song and never loses that intensity. I tried to somehow get behind why it is so special and
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