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Arcologies

For Monome norns and grid, arcologies is a 21st century instrument for musical composition and discovery. Built by Tyler as a “2020 pandemic sanity project” and released in September it

Level

Intermediate

Duration

1h 4m of video content

Format

Self-paced video

Added

03/11/2021

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Course presentation with Tyler Etters

Course overview

For Monome norns and grid, arcologies is a 21st century instrument for musical composition and discovery. Built by Tyler as a “2020 pandemic sanity project” and released in September it has already attracted passionate following.

Course content

Course overview

1 video, 1 resource, 4 lessons

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  • Description

    For Monome norns and grid, arcologies is a 21st century instrument for musical composition and discovery. Built by Tyler as a “2020 pandemic sanity project” and released in September it has already attracted passionate following.

    Through a series of “breakout-room” team challenges you will learn how to build and sculpt evolving sound compositions with Arcologies.

    We’ll cover signal flow, melodies, chords, and evolving systems with modulation, euclidean rhythms, and Turing machines.

  • Requirements
    • Monome norns and grid
    • Arcologies installed
  • Learning outcomes

    Build and sculpt evolving sound compositions with Arcologies.

    Utilise signal flow, melodies, chords, and evolving systems with modulation, euclidean rhythms, and Turing machines.

  • Who is this for

    Monome norns users

    Participants with a basic knowledge of GitHub and command line

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  • Prologue

1 - Maps

1 video, 1 resource

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  • Maps handout
  • Introduction to Maps (video)
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2 – Seed & Save

1 video, 1 resource

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  • Seed & Save handout
  • How to use Seed & Save (video)
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3 – Chords & Melodies

1 video, 1 resource

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  • Chords & Melodies handout
  • Chords and melodies (video)
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4 – Modulation

1 video, 1 resource

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  • Modulation handout
  • Modulate with arcologies (video)
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5 – Final project

1 video, 1 resource

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  • Final Project handout
  • Using everything together (video)
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Instructors

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Tyler Etters

Instructor