There will be exactly 42 beats difference - in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy.
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A shared past or start didnāt prevent the inevitable force of Entropy doing its thing: Playing the same patch for 10 years seemed like an eternity for at least one of the twins, if not to both of them, so everyone completely lost track of time. When they finally met again, not only the pieces were out of sync, but both pieces couldnāt resist butterflying into two completely different pieces of music.
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they will remain in sync, but the twin on earth will be significantly farther along in the piece when the twin in space returns.
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Remus and Romulus were heavy into hardware. And the heavier the hardware the better. Not just cases of synth modules, thatās the start for sure, but other stranger boxes labeled funny things like āinferomatic translation matrixā or āautomata complexion projecting conduitā. They were often components of a larger machine they had been assembling for years. One that could not use in this earthbound setting, a machine that only worked properly once out in space away from a planet. You could call it a vessel, but it was more like a washing machine strapped to a jukebox strapped to a swingset all inside a clear globe with maybe 30ish roadcone sized protrusions on the exterior. It barely fit in the barn anymore, none of the neighbors complained any longer, the wheezing whirring zinging noises were part of the neighborhood now, expected even, a normal nuisance. The longest time was wedging all the synth cases into place for the voyage. I mean it had medical supplies, radio telescopes, food rations in shiny plastic pouches, changes of attire, reading materials, toiletries( and a toilet) but the single most abundant thing was Eurorack modules. Remus and Romulus never fought about making music with synthesizers, they never fought about anything. But secretly, one detested the other, the genius each had was withheld from the other. Remus was melodic and free, sly and seductive, the air quivered with joy at his patching like a glove tingling awaiting the hand to fill it. Romulus was rhythmic and hard, clever and calculating, you could build empires on his beats. Together they were unstoppable, which they thoroughly understood, together they could patch any complex musically satisfying concoction of the collective consciousness without fail. The latest patch was all about the space bending machine they had created, the machine could do what science had been heading towards for centuries, accelerating completely and without limit except for nature itself. The patch also accelerates, the core phasor starts a mere .03hz and ends at a head spinning 191hz before drilling back down to its crawling pace. It was fun and had lots of energy both at the crawl walk run and even spinning madly out of control it had musical energy as well as atomic energy. In fact the music by way of patching was actually propelling the vessel as such, if you could call bending space with oscillations run amok propelling. It resembled tumbling in a washing machine while spinning around the bar of the swingset while the records in the jukebox flew around the cabin of the clear globe as the whole rolled around on the protrusions. Romulus was sick of Remus writing a melody and patching it lightning swift that tied hours of careful patching together like a slick shiny bow of magic. He had devised a final patch trick to push Remus into accelerated tempos without limit, the tempo would be a number too large to write it all out on paper, but it could be written as an equation. The vessel was being loaded into rocket this weekend, the cables went everywhere, the countdown was away. It was just going to be a test, drop the machine in empty space past the moon, start the synchronized patches, run it up to 191hz, check the meters, take the measurements, send the data to ESA. But not this time, it just kept going. Faster and faster. Spinning and spinning and really oscillating, Remus is almost shredded by friction, but suddenly he is gone in a flash of phasey looking motion in no direction in particular. The companion patch back on earth was wildly accelerating , just like the one on the ship, but the experience each has is totally different. The modules were heating up, the friction of the sound molecules hitting the air that fast weāre making the whole apartment complex heat up like a toaster oven of hyperpop . But flying or more accurately vibrating thru space at 80% of the speed of light, the patch was like a slow motion waltz, each note hanging like fine crystal in a chandelier, attached flowing but frozen like some Matrix fighting scene but with notes and beats. 10 years went like a manic day and half of spinning and patching, Romulus had meant for this to destroy his brother, but it only elevated Remus and his patching, and the deadly patch has already consumed Romulus and the surrounding neighborhood when Remus returned one afternoon trickling down to the ground in a spiral path. The phasors never slipped, not even a planck length difference.
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trigger sequencer me, please.
GEODESICS TWIN PARADOX
special relativistic clock
Consider two twin composers playing the same sequence on identical modular systems. One boards a spacecraft, traveling at near-light speed, and eventually returns home. Are their pieces still in sync?
TWIN PARADOX offers an answer, with two synchronized clocks experiencing different time dilations based on irrational rhythms, while always meeting together at a defined point in time. The clocks can evolve, alternate, and exchange their timelines, constantly, or just long enough to come back into sync.
It felt that a clock was the only really missing piece for a complete Geodesics system so we dug into it and experiment on how time can be stretched and compressed while keeping the idea of being a musical tool first and foremost.
Once again I had the pleasure to work with Marc BoulĆ©, who was kind enough to torture his strong and steady Impromptu Clocked to create this wacky Frankensteinās creature! Thank you Marc!!!
A huge thank you to Omri Cohen for his testing, ideas and this very nice video, as always we are the first surprised to see how the place he is taking this module is unknown to us. His involvement in the collection cannot be measured and it would not be the same module without his help.
Enjoy this fun trip to space, as always the manual is available on our website. Any support is welcome, especially by sharing us your creations!
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Iāve been playing with it since I woke up and Iām very happy to say it works as a sweet and it syncs amazingly with Hexaquark! Amazing job!
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Syncing the module with triggers (24 / 48) only give a value of 120 or 240 bpm. Is it a bug or am i doing something wrong ? On the other way, using gates seem to solve the problem.
Very cool take on the MM Clocked module concept. Fun to just plug stuff into and plug it into stuff to see what happens, if one just wants to go see what interesting things might fall outā¦
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Congratulations cubistguitar for winning this challenge with a fiction that could be a complete novel! A great story that places brotherhood challenges before the search of an answer, congrats to you!!
Close second would be Rmus7 with a reference to 4:33, but as cage said: āI wrote it note by note. Thatās how I knew how long it was, when I added all the notes upā so yes, even 4:33 can be played out of sync!
That you to everyone who participated even hexaquarks owner did it just for just, itās so good to see the community spirit at work 
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