11.15.2009 Circle of 5ths Clock: Complete!
At long last, a final-ish product of the Circle of 5ths Clock.
The two things I'd still like to do: I'd love to write up a grant to make a giant version. And I would like to find nicer-sounding resonators.
But, this version works, is reliable, has low latency, and does what I set out for it to do. I've left it running most of the day today, and the warped harmonic language of the various wine glasses, bells and metal gets more and more pleasing to my ear as I hear it repeatedly. Unlike version 1.0, where a single chord happened every 15 minutes, in this version the clock strikes only on the hour, but indicates the time by the number of chords in the progression. (Like a regular clock, I suppose, but with harmonic content.) So, 5:00 pm is a 5-chord progression leading to the key of the hour, in this case B Major.
Posted by charlie williams at November 15, 2009 05:35 PM
