Opera writing

Using predictive text to construct music

Rules

Free choice of three words

Basic melody note structure given by the words

For example

Foot and ankle boots for women characters

Notes -F A D A E B F E C A A C E

Originally I composed an accompaniment with just these notes, but it would not have been possible to sing it and there were words without ascribed notes as these only progress to a G. For this reason I edited the melody further, adding in notes in between those given by the lyrics so that the piece could be sung and sounded more traditionally musically correct.

FOOT AND ANKLE BOOTS SCORE

Free writing experiments

In order to keep up to date with the language my phone was generating and to introduce an element of choice which gave me further potential to create other written forms and poems, I did a number of 'free-writing' experiments, where I allowed myself to choose between the three words suggested from the previous word. This certainly generated some more varied and interesting results, as well as reducing the potential for repetitive loops. I believe these experiments may also have broken some previous loops as the words generated followed different patterns.