Common denominator bpm
I have a video of nature. I noticed that there are three repeating elements, one has 80.197844 bpm, the other 64.664 bpm and the other 67.4 bpm.
I want to compose music for it. To get started, how do I find a common denominator bpm value to create music that includes all the rhythms without sounding contradictory?
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You need to find the ratios between the numbers, and try to fit these to round-number approximations. The actual values are not important (let alone microsecond precision!)
64.7:80.2 is close to 4:5 ...Easy!
64.7:67.4 is close to 24:25 ... hmmm
I honestly doubt if you can make anything musical out of a 24:25 ratio (other than poco piu mosso); I would think that it could be very interesting to make something out of 4:5 relative frequencies. (I hope this helps; I don't 100% understand what you plan to do.)
Construct simple, rhythmic musical lines at those three speeds and play them together. Maybe interesting cross-modulation patterns will emerge. Steve Reich did a lot of this sort of thing.
But, if nothing interesting DOES emerge, try a different musical concept. Remember, Steve Reich had to make a living doing furniture removals for a long time :-)
Having done similar projects, it's probably easier to speed up or slow down the videos so that they fit the music.
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