Bad Henkings
a collaboration of Alister Flint – Carlo Serafini – Chris Vaisvil
This piece uses multiple tunings simultaneously and is the inaugural work of Fuzzy Boundries – an internet group devoted to producing music with 2 or more tunings either serially or in parallel as presented here.
Henk Badings harmonic scale, 9/8 5/4 11/8 3/2 13/8 7/4 2/1 9/4 5/2
and
Carlos Gamma
and
19 edo
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Tuning Survey July 16th 2010
Having some time with my Fender Mustang, Fractal Tune Smithy and GR-20 last night so I played through a few more tunings from the scala archive.
First – a (15 meg) medley of all of the below pieces in order of presentation.
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=849
So Many 37′s
in Lydia Ayers, algorithmic composition, subharmonics 1-37
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=843
37/36 37/35 37/34 37/33 37/32 37/31 37/30 37/29 37/28 37/27 37/26 37/25 37/24 37/23 37/22 37/21 37/20 37/19 37/18 37/17 37/16 37/15 37/14 37/13 37/12 37/11 37/10 37/9 37/8 37/7 37/6
Sitar Abuse
in Al-Farabi’s Greek genus non continuum acre
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=842
9/8 21/16 63/44 3/2 7/4 21/11 2/1
The G-8 “thinks” for flutes
in Scale of an anklung set from Tasikmalaya
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=847
206.12 382.329 610.009 823.607 1234.478 1406.12 1633.425 1841.204
Genetically Modified Senators
in 10-tET approximation with minimal order 13 beats
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=844
14/13 8/7 16/13 4/3 17/12 3/2 13/8 7/4 13/7 2/1
The G-8 “thinks” for strings
in Scale of an anklung set from Tasikmalaya
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=846
206.12 382.329 610.009 823.607 1234.478 1406.12 1633.425 1841.204
For Anthony (Phillips)
in Al Farabi’s theoretical octave division with identical tetrachords, 10th c.
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=841
256/243 18/17 162/149 54/49 9/8 32/27 81/68 27/22 81/64 4/3 1024/729 24/17 216/149 3/2 128/81 27/17 243/149 81/49 27/16 16/9 243/136 81/44 243/128 2/1
Doesn’t Deserve a Name
in Al Farabi’s Chromatic c700 AD
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=840
9/8 27/20 729/512 3/2 9/5 19/10 2/1
Terry Cloth Harps
in Terry Cloth Harps 12 equal at the same time as Terry Riley’s Harp of New Albion scale, inverse Malcolm’s Monochord, 1/1 on C#
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=839
16/15 9/8 6/5 5/4 4/3 64/45 3/2 8/5 5/3 16/9 15/8 2/1
Mission Microtonal
in 12 equal at the same time as Nineteen-tone equal major
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=845
189.474 378.947 505.263 694.737 884.211 1073.684 2/1
This is a proof of concept piece in Wendy Carlos Alpha tuning http://www.microtonal-synthesis.com/scale_carlos_alpha.html
(a perfect 5th in 9 steps)
What I did to create this piece is use Fractal Tune Smithy on the same computer as Sonar 8.5 and at the same time. By doing this I was able to play my Fender Mustang, and thus my Roland Gr-20, real time in Carlos Alpha tuning for each melodic instrument. I discovered I was able to record midi and audio though session 3 drummer was finicky and sometimes would not play unless I re-loaded Sonar. Unfortunately I learned about the midi recording while enroute to the piece so I didn’t take real advantage of it – just routed some extra notes to session 3 drummer. So I regret the tone of the guitar – I feel at this moment it doesn’t fit in well with the rest of the timbres. Nontheless since I recorded audio I was able to use audio effects on the guitar, bass, and sax. So consider this a microtonal version of some stupid 70′s heavy funk tune. It does sort of break down about 1:38 but then so is gravity apparently but I feel ok because I’m fighting entropy in a universe of disorder. *beams*
I think it was Igs that brought up the difficulty in melodies in Alpha (aka Valentine-ish) – well that difficulty seemed to melt away once I put some proper chords under it. The melodic scale became a sort of octatonic type thing that changed a bit between parts.
Download here
http://www.notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=824
I had not touched my keyboard for a long time – couple months? So it was inspiring to play it again. I set it up in the living room of the new house and played pianoteq on my laptop using a Just Intonation tuning (below). Actually I had to improvise the piece twice since I screwed up saving from pianoteq standalone and had to fire up Sonar 8.5 to capture the performance. Then I edited the performance to what you hear. About 20% of the notes were messed with – the rest is the original improvisation.
The title comes from the Collaborative Ambient Project for which I wrote this piece and is sponsored by a Russian associate Luigi Verona. I’ll bet this is the only solo piano piece he’s received so it will be interesting to see if its accepted.
http://www.notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=546
! harm12s.scl
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Harmonics 1 to 12 and subharmonics mixed
11
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9/8
8/7
5/4
4/3
11/8
16/11
3/2
8/5
7/4
16/9
2/1
Chris Vaisvil’s interview on Andrew Heathwaite and Jacob Barton’s Oddmusic Shower + music selections for radio play.
WRFU 104.5 Urbana Illinois – aired June 29th, 2010.
Topics include my musical history and views on microtonal music / composition.
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=515
Some of the music was unfortunately cut off – the full mix is here
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=492
and the individual tracks plus notes for each piece of music is here
http://notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=377&start=0