01. Example: OpenMusic and Harmonic Material

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This video gives a brief overview of ways that I've used OpenMusic in composing a recent piece for chamber ensemble. I derived the harmony for this new work by using some ideas developed by Polish composer Witold Lutosławski. After implementing these concepts in a patch, I was able to take a sample pitch collection from a passage by Ravel and develop some new harmonies with particularly useful interval structures. I then used OpenMusic to form these harmonies into a passacaglia-type chord progression to form the harmonic basis for the piece.
Leave a comment below if you find this video helpful or if you have any questions about OpenMusic or my work!

[@twigsfloat2773]

These videos are absolutely wonderful. You did such a good job putting these together. Thank you so much!

[@glenshall]

Thanks for thinking of others while teaching yourself to use the software. Good on you.

[@BarbarousBard]

I really appreciate that you've taken the time to make all these videos but why haven't you been using audio playback to demonstrate some of the examples?

[@pafnouticlavipiano]

This is excellent content showing what OpenMusic can be used for. Please keep uploading!

[@carltoncole7494]

Really great stuff. Would be great if you could do a BEGINNERS beginners course showing how to create chord sequences from a sequence of pitches etc. and how and where to use the more simple functions like x-=>dx, dx-=>x, list, omquantify etc. really showing the formula that's being built. A lot of the content I'm finding online demands quite a high level of understanding of the software and I feel like a couple of videos where you encourage the audience to build a simple patch along with you exploring first pitch, then rhythm, then harmony etc. would be really useful and popular.

[@composingwithopenmusic]

Thanks for your comment! I'd encourage you to continue on to the next video, which begins working systematically through the OpenMusic environment. Hope this helps! th-cam.com/video/D_l9LLEAsdY/w-d-xo.html

[@JessePlessis]

Thanks so much (in 2023)!

[@sylvaingriotto9664]

Excuse me, I'm French, and, at the beginning of your video, you talk about French tutorials for Open music.
It's strange because I don't find these French tutorial on the web...can you tell me where do you find them?
Many thanks for your answer

[@Nammedit]

Hello, thanks for the great video! Do you know if there's any extensions for OM for working with machine learning?

[@composingwithopenmusic]

That's a great question! I'm not familiar with all of the available libraries, but the OM-XMM library may be of interest to you. I know there's an om-ai library that has been described in a publication but the github project for the library appears to be missing...
github.com/openmusic-project/om-xmm
lac2020.sciencesconf.org/310446/document

[@Nammedit]

@@composingwithopenmusic very cool! Thank you for sharing, I'll check it out!

[@Nammedit]

@@composingwithopenmusic Fun fact: Anders Vinjar was my teacher at the Norwegian Academy of music in Computer aided Composition!

[@composingwithopenmusic]

@@Nammedit That's awesome!

[@SergeyBolotov]

Do you have the samples of music composing with this methods?

[@matiasfuentealba898]

nice work, do you have recordings or mockups of the piece?

[@composingwithopenmusic]

Unfortunately the premiere has been delayed due to COVID-19.

[@anibal.vidal.a]

Thanks very much for this content! It's super helpful. May I ask you how can you build a harmony progression from point A to B and choosing how many steps in between?

[@MrBruno7447]

great, but I still have no idea how any of this works...