Archive for the ‘chamber’ Category
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
Organum for 2 Harmonic Series Tuned Pianos composed (in 12 equal) by Carl Ruggles. I have two competing music thoughts – microtonality and the dissonant music of the 20th and 21st century. What lies between them is a wonderful connection because in many respects the music of our period has been written for 12 equal in a way that the music of the 19th century and before wasn’t. So in that sense 12 equal is being used like one would, for instance, 14 or 16 equal. Carl Ruggles is a great example of this. There is very little, if any, sense of classical functional harmony in his work. Of the few pieces he let survive him they all carve out a new vista and a way of treating 12 equal contrapuntally without the use of Schoenberg’s pantonal system.
By way of oblique comparison I am posting a 12 equal version string orchestra version of the two piano transcription of the originally orchestral Organum. Sort of the long way around… but I like it and perhaps you will too.
The harmonic series tuning for the piano version I used follows:
! C:\Cakewalk\scales\harm3-26skip2reduce2oct.scl
!
harm3-26skip2reduce2oct
12
!
25/24
13/12
7/6
5/4
17/12
3/2
19/12
5/3
7/4
11/6
23/12
2/1
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Saturday, May 11th, 2013
RNA Translation is a directed aleatoric composition for string orchestra, tamtam, and chromatic harps. The piece was realized by pitch extraction of performances by B. Smith, N. Oldani, and S. Moyes.
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Saturday, April 20th, 2013
Pretty Industry is a re-composition of four Benjamin Smith piano improvisations created by manipulating and re-orchestrating pitches extracted from the performances using 24 edo (24 et, quartertone) tuning. The new orchestration consists of Harp, Solo violin, viola, cello, contrabass strings, french horn, and bass drum, snare drum, and tamtam.
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Friday, April 19th, 2013
Emerging From a Shell – a remix of performances by Christiane Offenbar, Roger “ErocNet” Sundström, and Paul Mimlitsch with derivative tracks created from pitch extractions of the originals.
Hail, Hail – uses the same technique in a combination of manipulated piano improvisation and recording of a hail storm.
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 12 edo, 12 equal music, advant garde, ambient, chamber, collaboration, electronic, ensemble, improvisation, performance, piano, re-composition, vocal, woodwind | 2 Comments »
Friday, December 21st, 2012
For Harmonic Series Strings and Percussion uses the un-octave reduced harmonic series starting on C for the strings, bass drum, and symphonic tamtam. The quarternote quantized scoredatura is here as a PDF. The piece was performed after the composition was developed and then refined via editing the recorded midi data. The picture I took on a recent trip to Chicago while driving on Lake Shore Drive.
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., chamber, composition, ensemble, Harmonic Series - un-octave-reduced, Music, performance | 3 Comments »
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Happy Baktun!! is a piece for harmonic series tuned piano, sitar, tabura, trumpet, piccolo and percussion with effects.
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., advant garde, chamber, composition, Harmonic Series - un-octave-reduced, Harmonics 24 thru 48 | 1 Comment »
