procrastination diagram

I was fiddling around with the M3, and ended up with a... tune that I thought sounded pretty neat. The process involved just sitting down at the keyboard, playing the first four notes of what I'll call the lead twice and saying to myself "Huh, that sounds way neater than I expected", then fiddling around for a bit until I had some variety in the lead, and a bassline to go with it.

(There should be a player widget there. It may require flash. It may also require following the link to the actual page on my site in what ever reader thing you're reading this in.)

This consists of

with each bar repeated four times on the right hand, and

repeated on the left hand, played with on a very simple sound I put together for the RADIAS card in my M3. It's basically a bunch of square waves and a bunch of triangle waves slightly detuned and run through some distorting effects so that it doesn't sound too polite.

Now, depending on how responsive you are to musical cues and how much other sorts of media you've consumed, the bassline might be bothering you a bit—it did me. Here's just the bassline sped up a bit:

Here it is sped and transposed up a couple of octaves played with a patch that allegedly sounds like a french horn:

Now, at this point you're likely either looking at me funny or nodding in familiarity. Once I recognized it, I realized that I have a relatively powerful emotional reaction to those four notes, especially when followed...

(Also, I apologize for the pun in the title.)

Also, yes, this was supposed to be last week's post, except that I got bogged down trying to export the musical score fragments into SVG. Images, though inelegant, Just Work.