Lee Barry Composition Diary

This is a refresh of a piece written in the early 90s. It is in a 'parallel' meter of  5/8 or 5/4--you can groove on either level. The scale sounds 'Arabic' but is just a mode of harmonic minor. African Dust

This began as an experiment with polyrhythms, using 2 clav parts. I looped one bar of groove and bass and tracked a Rhodes piano, Reverse Piano and a sample-and-hold effect, 'keytar' (guitar sound played on a keyboard). The title is arbitrary and picked out of the air as are most of my titles. It is essentially a phoneme representation of 'Who's Who", similar to 'Nosmo King'. However I do have a list of several hundred titles, and sometimes I try to match them with the 'untitled', or start a piece directly on a title. Next: An generative treatment with derived samples, run against the loop. HuZu

A piece based on a compound time signature and cycles through 4 dominant 7th chords a minor third apart: E7, C#7, Bb7, G7. This is a re-track as an etude and has three bass parts. To get through all 12 keys use the two other cycles: F7-D7-B7-Ab7 and F#7-Eb7-C7-A7.  The MIDI Loop to play along with. (Note that Musecore notated it wrong. It is 6/8+3/4, not 3/4)   Rhythm By Addition by Lee Barry Video: The String Shortet Shortet No. __ (Figured Basses) by meta4s The 41/8 Version:  Figured Basses (41-8 Version) by meta4s