Rhythm Roulette Piano
The Rhythm Randomizer now uses VexFlow for rendering music notation. This improved note rendering API will make it much easier to add other score elements aside from basic notation to generated rhythms. Syncopated note combinations. Three new note selections have been added for 8th-quarter-8th syncopated rhythms. Piano roll pops up with a sample of the file via piano soundfont. Download button allows immediate dl to computer. Still need to export several hundred.mid to the library, but the site is live for now. Link: mistermidi.com. Let me know what you guys think! Love the positivity this community shares and hope this could be of some benefit.
bioJoseph Weisnewski is a creative, vital member of the Seattle music community as well as a respected composer and educator. Over the last 30 years he has composed for orchestra, chamber groups, choral ensembles, ballet and theater, including six years as composer and musical director for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Weisnewski prides himself on the broad range of outlets for his creativity. He has composed a blues musical based on William Shakespeare's play Othello, performed and written for a satirical, socially conscious band called Patriot Act, and recently acted in Lucas Smiraldo's Voice of the Americas. Composition remains Weisnewski's first love. He has developed a technique of composition called Macro-Micro in which small motifs are expanded to define the entire form of a composition. Weisnewski credits his musical diversity to both his education and experience. Born in 1947, he traveled extensively in his youth due to his father's military career. He began formal music lessons at the age of ten, studying the violin. He then moved on to play electric bass and guitar in rock bands during the 1960's. He attended Palomar College in San Marcos, California where he studied music theory under Howard Brubeck, then continued his musical education at San Francisco State College and classical guitar at the San Francisco Conservatory. Upon leaving school, he continued working privately with composers including Robin Maconie and Sir Lennox Berkeley. Studying under these talented masters gave Weisnewski a love for learning and teaching. A certified Montessorian and a gifted teacher, he brings music to life for more than 500 students a week in their classrooms. He regularly conducts workshops at local, regional and national conferences for professional educators.. Joseph lives with his wife Mary in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. |
This time around on “Rhythm Roulette”, we meet at Brooklyn’s “The Thing”, a second-hand record shop well known for being a crate diggers paradise… or hell… depending on who you ask! The guy we met there is none other than boom bap savior and MPC master “Marco Polo”.
He picks records from the ultra random and eclectic bins and ends up with three unexpected 12″. Sampling bits and pieces of every record, MP chopped the heck out of them in his classic weapon of choice, the MPC2000XL. Although the final result is not totally to his liking, if you ask us, he did some miracle with what he had in his hands! That beat knock!
Marco Polo is born in Toronto but moved to the mecca of hip-hop, New York City, in the early 2000’s. It all makes sense since his production is greatly influenced by the sound of the east coast golden era. After getting a spot on a Masta Ace album, he finds the way to collaborate with a multitude of celebrated rappers, making full albums with the late Pumpkinhead, Torae and Ruste Juxx.
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MP released a couple of albums under his own name for the Soulspazm label, with features coming from legends like Buckshot, Lil Fame of M.O.P, Large Pro, Juju of The Beatnuts, Talib Kweli, Posdnuos of De La Soul or Sadat X from Brand Nubian. Around 2010, it seems like he had beats on every album from underground MC’s out of the Big Apple, his sample-heavy hardcore boom bap style of production being more popular than ever.
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Marco Polo is still an active producer and DJ, touring around the world with Masta Ace and Stricklin. Catch him in a city near you if you feel like banging your heads ’till your neck hurts. Boom bap 4 life!