I got up a little late this morning and felt a little tired, too, so I only walked to the highway 12 kikar and back. It was still good exercise, though.
I spent much of the day working on the 2nd project for my class. It's a setting of an old French noel (Xmas carol) that I picked mostly because it's in the Dorian mode, a requirement for this project. The project also has a required tempo, so I needed a piece that would sound okay at that speed. There's a 4-measure introduction before the actual melody starts, and there are 2 additional fade-away measures at the end, which bring it exactly to the required length of 30 seconds. I start with noise that gets gradually louder (though never very loud) and wanders left and right in a random walk. There are also random 16th notes chosen for a full 3 octaves of the Dorian mode. When the melody starts, the noise continues to wander, though somewhat more quietly, and the random notes during this phase are chosen only from chords that match the melody. There is also a bass line that plays along with the melody. For the last 2 measures, the random notes are again chosen from the whole gamut, and every thing fades away to nearly nothing. All of this is accomplished by programming in the ChucK programming language. It's basically finished now, although I still need to add more comments, and I'll probably also tinker a bit more with the parameters that control everything and how it works together.
For lunch, we again drove up to Yahel. However, we went up highway 40 and came back on highway 13 to highway 90, continuing south to Yahel. After eating, we drove directly home on highway 90.
In the evening we went over to Ice Park for frozen yogurt and then talked to David's sister in Ohio after returning home.
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