(sorry for the low audio level!) On March 2nd 2024, the next Distance Music concert will take place in Winter Park, FL in the Full Sail 4 parking lot. I'm posting this set of videos document the process its creation. Please visit my website to find out much more about this new musical form. (https://keithlaymusic.com - and scroll down to click on Distance Minimalism - Distance Music)

REQUIRED SPECS:
1) It has to fit between the 7 acres within the parking lot east of the University Park Drive access street.
2) Sound levels must not exceed 80dB in the neighborhood across Semoran Blvd to the West or the 911 building to the East
3) A maximum of 7 sounders (independent MIDI-Radio controlled train horn/glockenspiel apparatuses) (130dB/1m)
4) Twenty-six Brass and Percussion musicians
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How to make sense of this video:
The white guy with big ears is you, the Listener. This Unity game engine software you're seeing simulates what the sound/music will be if all of the horns (the colored downward pointing cones) play at the same moment. The horns are set upon intersection points of multiple sets of concentric circles. When activated, each horn emits a dim, quickly expanding circular sound wave moving at the speed of sound (according to the desired temperature). When each horn sound wave passes the Listener, you hear a sample of the train horn note.
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00:00 DM1, built on 2 circle-sets with 112.8ft as the first radius and Primary Interval (PI). Train Horns C4, Eb, F, Gb, A, Bb, D Interesting rhythms here, but, would be difficult for musicians to play to.

01:07 DM2, 2 circle-sets, with a larger 174.91ft Primary Interval (PI). Tried to get a large hemisphere shaped array with a center point that would allow a Listener to hear every horn that fires simultaneously. However, outside that center point, the rhythms are again, too complex to play in sync with.

01:49 DM3 Two circle-sets with a125ft PI. Another attempt at a useable hemispherical array of sounders. Same issues as DM2

02:33 DM4 The most attractive yet. Two circle-sets of 125ft PI, but placing the sounders on various PI points of intersection (I call these primary interval points or PIPs). Lots of common distances that are in simple ratios - which translates into METER.

03:25 DM5 Also attractive. Like DM4 except for different choices of PIPs and some pitch changes: Eb is now E. Bb is now B.

Let me know if you like any of these. This isn't what the music of the concert will be, of course, but this is the bedrock of the general tonality.


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