Here is a 12 tone row for exploitation.
Here’s what i made:
I had an allergy headache so opted for VST space music and youtube. Forgive the cheesy particle gen vid.
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So awesome! Man, this is turning out much greater than expected. It totally gives me a perspective on my own sense of melody and harmony that is wild. The original file, by the way, is from a 20+ year old track that I’ll make an effort to dig up so you can hear my original version.
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Well, that didn’t take log. Thanks YouTube 
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Digging yall’s versions more lol. Im really digging this thread cause i get to see different approaches that will expand my horizons. The other neat consequence is you basically get songs using the same motif with different feelings to it. It develops that into a personality on it’s own.
The seriousness and intensity of the original undergrowth by @ChristianBloch, is contrasted with @Maxhirez’s version with it’s cloy arps and has an exploratory vibe.
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Oh wow-that is wild! We have three completely different songs that are ALL THE SAME SONG! This is fun!
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Still working on this. It’s forced me to confront my lack of playing experience and to learn a lot about composition that I didn’t even know existed to be learnt. I’ve also surprised myself with how much sheer fun I’m getting out of my extremely meagre talents.
To force myself to concentrate on the musical aspects, I’m using a piano of sorts rather than knock out something that involves tweaking oscillators and filters. It’s a piano, kind of.
A couple of years ago my son the musician of the family was collecting electronic keyboards, and one of the things on offer was an unusual instrument called a Chromatone CT-312 which has a hexagonally-arranged six-row keyboard based on the Jankó design. At the time the company that makes these were giving them away free to anybody who would pay the rather hefty cost of shipping from Japan. I wasn’t very impressed at the time because it looks like the world’s biggest typewriter and I didn’t see the point.
Still, keyboard aside, it’s a rather impressive instrument with excellent built-in speakers and a decent set of features. Here’s a basic music lesson in which the major and minor chord fingerings for the Chromatone keyboard are introduced, and the ease of transposing keys is demonstrated. You only need to learn one basic fingering pattern for each chord type. Once you know a chord pattern you can apply it to literally any note on the keyboard to play the corresponding chord.
The lesson is in Japanese but they use the same terms for Western music that everybody else does, so it’s easy to follow.
The underlying principle is that moving horizontally right or left takes you up or down a whole tone, while moving diagonally takes you up or down a semitone. If you already know your way around the standard piano keyboard you shouldn’t have any problems spotting how to adapt your playing style, as the usual “black key and white key” pattern still emerges if you look for it. This keyboard just provides all the missing intervals.
So I’m now glad my son made this purchase. I stand a decent chance of composing a piece without first learning the piano keyboard inside and out.
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My son the amateur musician gave me an impromptu music lesson today. He saw my notes relating the Chromatone keyboard and its notation to conventional music notation, and expanded at length on the major and minor chords, touching on 7th chords and culminating in the circle of fifths. Bright guy, talented teacher.
Knowing my fondness for slide rules, he even constructed a little music slide rule which computes transpositions easily. I’m surrounded by drop dead fucking genius.
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This has gotten stuck in my head lately:
Ziv covered this cover at the 2017 Superbooth on 20 or 30 different synths. Anybody up for An international multi-instrument interpretive Kosmonut video mash-up? Original key/tempo, end of part 1 only is the cliche, I guess. Never mind it’s probably stupid. Unless you want to…
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That would be even better with Hugh Laurie or Patrick Stewart doing a plummy English voice-over like in the original. Viv Stanshall died in the late nineties.
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Oh that would be great. Hugh Laurie is quite an accomplished musician himself!
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