How to make generative piano program like Decks Dark by Radiohead?
Hello everyone, I am very new to Max/Msp and not really sure the power that it has but I know Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead uses Max/Msp(He actually inspired me to actually start using it) so I thought I would ask. In the song Decks Dark from Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool album you can hear scattering piano notes panned far right throughout. It almost sounds like heavily delayed Alice Coltrane but I was wondering if there was anyway to make a generative program to create that flowing, falling sound? If so, could someone point me in the right direction for how to make it? Any details would be great, thank you.
simply put, that can all be reached via midi events, so in max/msp, you would focus on creating those midi events.*)
most of what that right channel piano figure does is that the events vary in time and attack velocity.
i probably do not need to mention its special role in hamonic/melodic content.
it also seems to be a very "hard", closely recorded piano sample, such as the terrible steinberg grand or a custom recording of an upright using a cheap condensator mic. which is sometimes perfect if you want to make it sound like a real piano.
*) but i doubt that it is algorithm, it is quite deliberately set.