Your Musical Steem and SBD Report Week 7 (February 12th - February 18th)

playitforward (68)in #music • 6 years ago (edited)

Your Musical Steem and SBD Report Week 7 (February 12th - February 18th)

This music composition as made based on the movement of the Japanese candlesticks for Steem and SBD this week. This week we saw different movement in the structure, and thus different music. This week was growing a bit and almost flatlining in the middle. I decided to do something to represent that movement along the way.

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Compositional Process

This took place at the Yamaha ultra-baby grand piano. I always like to write here on paper. The traditional way allows a simple process to a complicated task. I sat with the melody and came up with chords and melody at the same time. The melody is based on 4 hour intervals per candlestick. Each candlestick is a 1/8th note. I made it sort of waltzy, so instead of it being strongly 4/4 we get a very short 3/4 piece.

In the image below you can see the thought process behind the melody, chord changes and why it was that way. You can also physically see the music notes spread apart just as they are in the candlestick charts.

After writing the melody, I wrote a harmony which represented Steem Dollars. The SBD chart closely followed Steem, except up a little and the growth was more exponential. Because of this I wanted them to be in a harmony line together, but instead of it being a fixed interval, the interval grows and shrinks as the charts move closer and further away from each other. What was interesting about that, is when the note intervals weren't in 3rds or 6ths, we are now taken to melodic parallel 4ths, and 5ths. These are strictly against the rules in the classical world, but in this world it just seems like it makes the most sense. Sometimes to make something new, I have to find ways to sacrifice the rules over what the music demands.

Charts:

Steem Dollars are on top, Steem on bottom. I made the lines stay at 1/3 interval apart but moving in the same way. The charts reflected this and I think it made the line really weird and interesting. As previously mentioned we broke some tonal counterpoint and harmony rules here! The interval of the notes spread as the spread begins to widen and get closer.

Rehearsal vs. Recording

In collaboration with @storybird, we recorded this piece. I played the guitar, she recorded the piano. This was a rehearsal and I decided not to make an official high fidelity recording because the rawness of the recorded demo turned out really neat. It's almost rustic in feel. Check it out! Thanks again @storybird for the piano part and I hope we can get you some extra love and followers for that!