Thank you for 1000 subs! I'm really happy that we are starting to build such a cool esoteric music theory community here. Hope you all enjoy this extreme 1000 note chord I've whipped up, a note for every one of you all!
Mumbo gumbo for the algorithm:
In this video we try to figure out how to voice a 1000 note chord. That is 1000 different pitches, or distinct pitch classes. For this crazy music theory experiment to work, we will have to dive into the wonderful world of microtonality. This means splitting an octave into 1000 different notes, instead of the usual 12 notes that makes up out 12 tone equally tempered system. This xenharmonic/microtonal device is how we can get 1000 different pitch classes. Once we've defined terms like what is a cent in music, and, how microtonality works, we try out a few chord building methods from composers like Reginald Smith Brindle, Arnold Schoenberg, and of course, Jacob Collier's famous all note chord. After some extreme chord reharmonization fun, we take the voicing style of 20th century serialist composer Fritz Heinrich Kleins infamous pyramid chord, and mother chord and apply it to our 1000 note chord. The Pyramid Chord contains all intervals from smallest to largest, while the Mother Chord also contains all intervals as well as all possible notes (in 12EDO), making it a true oddity in terms of 12 tone row cluster chords. A quick look into music psychology, music perception and music cognition gives us an understanding as to why this might be useful in our chord building. We define and answer what the Pyramid Chord as well as what the Mother Chord is in detail and then take a turn into the acoustic audio science of white noise. Looking at what creates white noise in the context of these serialist all note chords, and by a new musical device I've dubbed a "pitch band" can give us a pathway to orchestrating a thousand note chord which sounds "Good".
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Research Links:
Classical Nerd's 1200 note chord, "1200-TET: The Ultimate Tone Cluster?": • 1200-TET: The Ultimate...
Mother Chord, Pyramid Chord, and Grandmother Chord Wiki:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-int....
David Headlam's analysis of Kleins "Die Grenze der Halbtonwelt" (The Boundary of the Semitonal World), & Die Maschine:
digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/...
Nicolas Slonimsky's "Thesurus of scales and melodic patterns" which contains useful formulation of a lot of 12 tone cluster chords:
www.lapetitedistribution.org/...
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