Music after Covid-19? (2)

How music composing could become musical architecture building?

The weakening of the globalized, mediatized world is now imminent. Localized and de-mediatized world is emerging. To survive during the above transformation, the music composers will have to transform to ‘Musical Building Architects’. 

(‘Music after Covid-19? (1) From the globalized, mediatized world to localized and de-mediatized world, fostering the musical diversity’; 

https://musicdrvee.blogspot.com/2020/05/music-after-covid-19-from-globalized.html)

Post Covid-19, the localized and de-mediatized world will revive the musical ecosystem, fostering the musical diversity and creativity. Also, ‘many music cultures now in a critical state of survival’ as well as sounds from nature would prove to be valuable music sources for a wide variety of new music, catering to the diverse music tastes emerging in the digital music market.

Thanks to the developments in the Music Information Technology (MIT), both the music learning and music composing could adopt universal techniques without dethroning the traditional methods of specializing the different kinds of world music. 

(http://drvee.in/)

When I introduced ‘Music Information Technology’ as a common elective to all the disciplines of the engineering students of National Institute of Technology, Trichy & SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India, I never imagined that it would lead to the emerging of a new music learning method, without vocal or instrumental training, to understand world music with the option to specialize any kind of world music for music composing.

Most of my students had no previous music training, Indian music or Western music.

Starting from the basics of acoustics, I introduced the musical parameters and the general tuning system, followed by their role in Western major scales & minor scales. Also relating Western music notes to the Indian music notes, I explained the logic to identify the Raga system of both South Indian & North Indian Classical Music.

Encouraged by the students’ response, I demonstrated the method of transforming a Western melody from the Western Notation to the South Indian Classical Music Notation.

Next comes the most exciting development.

To test their understanding, the following assignment was given to them.

From the internet, download any simple melody of Western Music. Transform the melody from the Western Notation to the South Indian Classical Music Notation and submit the assignment.

To my pleasant surprise, all successfully submitted the assignment.

After my training to enter the music notes using the mouse in the free version of MIDI synthesiser software, they enjoyed their training towards becoming a music composer. With default velocity, the resulting melody sounded just skeleton. After listening to the corresponding melody in the album, they could understand the difference between the musical skeleton and the musical architecture.

Then I explained to them about the significance of the traditional method of music learning to grasp and implement the finer details of the musical architecture.

Also, I explained how to source the sound in nature to compose music.

Next, I became the project consultant to R & D project at NIT-T India.

The Logic of Defreezing the Music from the Building Architecture, started from Vitruvius (80 -15 BC), and pursued by Iannis Xenakis, among many others in the modern era, was finally discovered by me, as the Project Consultant of the on-going R & D project at National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, with patent and published in SCI journal ‘Multimedia Tools and Applications – Springer‘ 

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The above project had revealed how music composing could become musical architecture building.

Without using any music instrument & by entering the music notes using the mouse, I had composed some experimental music, just to demonstrate how music composing could be like a musical building; constructing the musical skeleton first and to add the musical architecture next.

To add the musical architecture, I need to study the samples of great composers to identify the musical architecture details to add to the musical skeleton structure. Alternately to save time, I could coordinate online with a traditional music composer who may also be exposed to this new music composing technique.

The following musical skeleton samples in MP3 - free demo – 

1.   Title: Beat Again

Dr Vee developed DfD tech in music. It is leading to new music, differing from Mozart’s style of composing ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ to the tune of the French melody "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman".

Few structures of Michael Jackson’s 'Beat It' with the musical notes structures of Indian music, were employed to develop a melody in instrumental (Xylophone) format. The tune is totally different from ‘Beat it’.

2.   Title: Angkor 2020

My experimental composing for the Cambodian style Xylophone music, using the musical notes structures of Indian music;

Without using any music instrument, I just composed using the mouse in my laptop, using the Xylophone & other instruments voices in the MIDI synthesiser software.

During 2018 July, the senior music teacher at Heritage Hub, Cambodian Living Arts, Siam Reap praised that the following music would prove to be innovative new addition to Cambodian style Xylophone music.

3.   Title: MOZARTHAMSA

Few musical note structures of Mozart (K545) were musically joined with the few musical note structures Carnatic Music Trinity Muthuswami Dikshitar’s Vatapi Ganapatim in Hamsadhvani raga, to musically generate a ‘pallavi’ and ‘charanam’ of Indian style melody. Few more instrumental tracks were added to complete the melody.

All notes entered using mouse – plain notes – no mixing.

visit : http://muxel.sg/

Design for Disassembly (DfD) is the new developing field in the building architecture. 

(https://archinect.com/features/article/150067785/recycled-buildings-how-to-design-for-disassembly). 

Great Music composers had already employed the different kinds of transformations of the music structures to compose music.  The above-mentioned project on ‘The Logic of Defreezing the Music from the Building Architecture’ had revealed the techniques involved in the music related DfD.

Musical architecture building involving the music related DfD may become the music composing trend during post Covid-19 world.

My journey started from the application of ‘Physics of Music’ to the ancient Indian Tamil texts. Just following my passions in accordance with my nature, I had become a Music Information Technologist, pioneering in Musical Architecture and Musical Linguistics; waiting for the right team to develop and introduce Musical architecture building to the world of music.