Ferneyhough

Bone Alphabet — strata, filters, tempi

Bone Alphabet: four percussion strata in 5-, 7-, 9- and 11-tuplets, worked over by rest insertion, rotation and retrograde, thinned by density curves, each in its own derived tempo.

3 cells106 nodes32 voices

Bone Alphabet — strata, filters, tempi: the opening bars as grafer engraved them — The notation, exactly as grafer engraved it from the graph.

How it is built

Bone Alphabet — four percussion strata in 5-, 7-, 9- and 11-tuplets, each worked over by Insert Rests, Rotate and Retrograde, thinned by density curves, and set in its own tempo by a chain of metric modulations.

The graph

The node graph of Bone Alphabet — strata, filters, tempi in grafer's Graf editor

Nodes in this study

BPF
Insert Rests
Metric Modulation
Pitch List
Rest Density
Rhythm Retrograde
Rhythm Rotate
Thue–Morse
Tuplet
Voice
Voice Chain
Voice Layer

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