Polytempo Composer: A Tool For The Computation Of Synchronisable Tempo Progressions

The accurate synchronisation of tempo progressions is a compositional challenge. This paper describes the development of a method based on Bézier curves that facilitates the construction of musical tempo polyphonies up to an arbitrary level of complexity, and its implementation in a software tool. The motivation for this work is to enable and encourage composers to create music with different simultaneously varying tempos which otherwise would be too complex to manage.

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Related Organizations

Zurich University of the Arts
Switzerland

Keywords

Algorithmic Composition, Computer Music, Musical Mathematics, Tempo Polyphony, Music Software

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