Testing Combinations And Flows Of Dyads



Notes on "TESTING COMBINATIONS AND FLOWS OF DYADS" (English)








Chords without Tonality 


"Dyad" means a two-note chord. The Team does NOT consider it so simple as that. The Western music history assumes the basic chord is the triad (three-note) as it generates tonality.

Actually, combinations of two dyads do not generate tonality. But why is that?
In addition atonal music in general is so boring and frightening. Little fun. Why is that?


(TI wrote on 8 June 2019:)
For this track, I really scrabbled. At first I doubted we could really complete what consists of just dyad combinations. While I was wondering if it was good or not even after released, I received enthusiastic praise from not a few people around the world. That has made me confident. This track is one of my recent favourites.


 (TM wrote on 9 June 2019:)
Actually, I see this track as "an experiment well decorated with elaborate and precise arrangement and mixing as well as funky rhythm parts." 

I got interested the dyad and that was the start. (I didn't even know the word "dyad" then.) 

If there are a dyad of C/G and another of E/A, you may think it should sound like C6 in total. That's true if the sounds are the same, but is wrong if the sounds different.

Even if the total chord is dissonant, dyad combinations do not sound dissonant, curiously enough. For example, the combination of a dyad C/G and dyad C#/F# sounds a little bit differently from a tetrad (four-notes chords) C/C#/F#/G. As it's quite hard to explain the difference, just try.


In short, while combinations of dyads do not sound so dissonant, those do not sound tonal, either.

I was surprised and excited with this phenomenon. By this we could get free from what have been defined as the musical “sense” or “context” since J S Bach. The musical sense and context are formed with the tonality, which combinations of dyads do not generate.

But from another point of view “no context” means difficult to compose and arrange it, which is the background of what TI felt as he wrote above.


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