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Turangalîla — rhythmic characters, the chord of resonance, colour

Turangalîla: rhythmic characters that grow, shrink and stay, the chord of resonance from the harmonic series, and mode 3 colour chords in two transpositions.

3 cells32 nodes9 voices

Turangalîla — rhythmic characters, the chord of resonance, colour: the opening bars as grafer engraved them — The notation, exactly as grafer engraved it from the graph.

How it is built

Turangalîla — rhythmic characters that grow, shrink and stay, the chord of resonance from the harmonic series rounded to the piano, and mode 3 colour chords in two transpositions.

The graph

The node graph of Turangalîla — rhythmic characters, the chord of resonance, colour in grafer's Graf editor

Nodes in this study

Chord
Cresc / Dim
Harmonic Series
Pandiatonic
Pitch List
Rhythm Repeat
Rhythm Tree
Telescope
Transpose
Voice
Voice Layer

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