What are 'cascade arpeggios'?

Here's a cute sound design technique that results in odd arpeggios: play several notes at different BPMs and find places where they phase in and out of sync.
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Contents:
0:00 Listen to this!
0:20 The inspiration meme
1:09 Making things less griddy
1:29 Sketch composition
1:53 Making chord changes
2:50 Public service anouncement

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[@IzakayaDeployment]

A creative way to play arpeggios or the ultimate beatmatching nightmare for djs lol

[@fjoiewafno]

Hah, was thinking, sounds like my vinyl DJing

[@Drinkyoghurt]

As long as the hihats work you're golden. Now, trying to mix a track with off grid hats, that's a completely different beast.

[@lfo2vco]

Nice reminiscent of Steve Reich Piano Phase.

[@pcuadra]

I love when people rediscover phase music and find fun ways to use it!

[@made.online2149]

everyone here needs to listen to Reich's Music for 18 Musicians

[@djanishanand]

This is cool. This technique has been always in front of us and was overlooked. Thanks buddy for sharing this and triggering this idea again. WOW sounds

[@undergrads]

That's genius. This seems like it would would work amazingly well in a the breakdown/bridge. Thank you!!!!!

[@toxicthecat457]

This adds so much interest - great stuff.

[@DielectricFailure]

Yes. New inspiration is awesome. Thank you! ✌️

[@OmarP8]

Muy buena idea Óscar. Muy inspiradora!

[@stephanschuster9106]

In minimal music this concept is called Phasing.

[@ironqueen_osrs]

I never thought about this.. Its so cool !!
you can do so much interesting and different stuff with this!!
Im going to the lab >>>

[@rmatson]

Cool idea. Thanks for sharing.

[@up_late_nyckobe]

Sounds amazing. But. I was really hoping for a full tutorial how exactly you placed the notes ☹️

[@KimStennabbCaesar]

You can place them all on the 1. They will shift since they have different tempos.

[@mige99]

just look for steve reich tutorials, its the same idea

[@pablojescobar3400]

Its super serious when the scarf goes on

[@LuigiElettrico]

I'll definitely try this in one of my melodic techno tracks :D

[@Turbo_TechnoLogic]

Yeah I always liked these in music

[@jonborno8550]

this is great!

[@theuzhaamtak574]

really cool idea

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

I have use this kind of idea and run it through a ping pong delay. Getting the cascade running left and right.

[@nicolaveritas]

sort of Steve Reich style phasing

[@split6933]

Nice Oscar! Gives inspiration to try new things

[@onebrum]

Géniales ces cascades d'accords Oscar ! 👏

[@philfiebz]

Thanks for showing us this simple but effective concept. Never thought of trying that out. Today I want to showcase two tracks with creative use of white noise: “Black 8 & Arrab - Sandwaves” and “Stephan Bodzin - Boavista”.

[@chocomalk]

"It's loose and you can incorporate it"
haha!!

[@joni.sirvio8867]

it sparked

[@markzambelli]

There's an analogous thing going on in Dan Deacon's - Learning To Relax (Official Audio) UA-cam video but not with the sound... it's with the visuals! Out of phase stuff leads to all sorts of weird effects (bit like the Moire Effect) and patterns in that video so it's nice hearing the audio-version of that idea here.
PS for anyone wanting to see Dan's video please read the disclaimer in their 'Description'

[@Divinewave]

Nice! Moderat vibes!

[@lawrencekelly5038]

Love this. So much so I'm nicking the idea, I'll have a massive hit with it, make me world famous, then I'll probably mention you in my grammy acceptance speech, the worlds press will go wild at me for it and then I'll be back to the day job. Cheers for the brief moment of fame though.

[@OscarUnderdog]

It’s like it already happened 💙 the hit was great though

[@Auditium]

This reminds me the way that Jooris Voorn played main riff in Ringo. Very cool method.

[@yaro_nz]

Reminds me of the animations of pendulum swinging, same principle 👌🏻

[@milosmisic3006]

amazing, thank you Oscar

[@arneanders6306]

Some love 😎🤙

[@anshuvenkateshwaran5324]

release this one it goes hard

[@strages01]

Love it Oscar

[@Reg-Edit]

Sounds like my access virus when I try to synchronise it to the PC 😂

[@dillonfontenot9972]

Thanks Oscar!

[@Pettemusic]

you created the first "jazz techno", could be a new musical style

[@truekasia12]

I kind of achieved it with phaseplant grannular module

[@bobbylimesmusic]

Bro I’ve also been wearing a studio scarf here in Germany ❄️

[@danieltx7066]

Very creative thinking. Thank you for this gem. A maths term comes to mind, but I’m too scared of how large the number would be: least common multiple. :)

[@danieltx7066]

Alexa says it’s 14,762.

[@OscarUnderdog]

😂

[@gm-heaven]

My man! Reverting to Ableton 😂

[@OscarUnderdog]

Hehe I never left…

[@harisdiz.5817]

You can observe this phenomenon on the car indicators on the opposite side of the traffic lights. For a few moments, all the indicators will blink in unison and then slowly fall out of fase.

[@henryxiao_]

Thanks for sharing Oscar. Did you implement this by manually shifting the notes over after some time in ableton? Or some tool to arpeggiate and change the rhythm speed?

[@agit5270]

The easiest way probably would be making the desired arpeggio, consolidate it, change bpm, consolidate till you get it

[@OscarUnderdog]

Write out an arpeggio on the grid in ableton, then grab one of the notes and midi warp stretch them (i included a little screenshot of it too :))

[@pinkmouse4863]

Feeling a bit cold Oscar? 🥶☃❄

[@viogitz]

🎉cool

[@helisoma]

it reminds me of compositions from Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass

[@mige99]

reminds me of steve reich

[@gm-heaven]

I find tempo control techniques and creativity around tempo variations are poorly covered on UA-cam. Maybe because most of the time it does not fit to DJ grid requirements. However so efficient in lives

[@dajw]

You need to binge listen to Steve Reich RIGHT NOW!!
listen to “different trains” and “music for 18 musicians”. Do it now. It’s the law.

[@edwardchyrek]

It’s loose as a goose 🪿

[@tothefinlandstation]

Ever listen to any Steve Reich?

[@NNokia-jz6jb]

Sounds like midi timing of Cubase.

[@rofnaden]

Lower to 118bpm and you have Stimming sound

[@thepaperaeroplanetv]

I guess Mathame do this so often?

[@sebsobseb]

Has a Paul Kalkbrenner vibe

[@jonnyk2091]

🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[@damienwoods5744]

Minimalism.