BeatGen

When I try to imagine a young Daedelus, what comes to mind is Harry Potter. The smiling one from the book covers, not the serious one from the movies. “I was a pretty fat kid,” he says shattering that image. Were there any fat kids at Hogwarts? Of course young Alfred [...]

At the turn of the 20th century, the technological revolution in music was shifting in favor of the populous. With the advent of sound recording technology, music was no longer restricted to the concert halls, but being given directly to the people, by the people and for the people, allowing them to dictate new music [...]

The fundamental first principle of BeatGen is the beat.  Defining the beat however, things become more complex.  Music theory tells us that *a* beat is one pulse of time. *The* beat is the interval patterns between pulses.  More colloquially,  meaning has expanded to represent a core pattern of a song as the beat (this notably [...]