Rimsky-Korsakov

Flight of the Bumblebee — a chromatic engine

Flight of the Bumblebee as a machine: a falling chromatic wave interleaved with its upper neighbour, mirrored, doubled, and quantised to land.

3 cells43 nodes9 voices

Flight of the Bumblebee — a chromatic engine: the opening bars as grafer engraved them — The notation, exactly as grafer engraved it from the graph.

How it is built

Flight of the Bumblebee as a small machine: a falling chromatic wave interleaved with its upper neighbour, then mirrored and doubled, then quantised to A minor to land.

The graph

The node graph of Flight of the Bumblebee — a chromatic engine in grafer's Graf editor

Nodes in this study

Accumulate
Chain
Cresc / Dim
Interleave
Mirror
Pitch List
Rhythm Repeat
Rhythm Tree
Scale Quantize
Transpose
Voice
Voice Layer

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