The Collected Speeches of Joseph Stalin is a piano improvisation in 19 equal. It features the logidy UMI3 pedal which gives me access to the 3 other piano pedals besides sustain that pianoteq supports; Una Corda, Sostenuto, and used here at ~5 minutes the Harmonic pedal which doesn’t exist in a real piano. The logidy pedal is the most cost effective solution to accessing these other pedals ($80 Amazon) and is fully programmable and even supports attaching an expression pedal. Obviously this is also a great solution for owners of an AXiS 49 which for some inexplicable reason doesn’t have sustain pedal capability.
click to make big and see the captured “score” thanks to FFT math.
I used my newly made Erhu to play a decidedly non-Chinese drone duet. I marked out a scale I made up by ear with a marker and used a capo to clamp a $5 piezo pickup to the fingerboard. I’m assuming that its a good bet this is a just intonation something or other. I hope you like it. Now… I’m thinking of making a version that I can ebow. I have an inkling that may be pretty slick.
The Descent of Cthulhu is a solo for modified Blüthner Model 1 Pianoteq 4.5 physical model in 15 edo (15 note per octave) tuning. This is a live performance captured in Pianoteq and exported as performed. – warning there is a very wide dynamic range
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.
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pitches from the 8th to the 32nd harmonic, excluding those that are one more than a multiple of 4
18
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5/4
11/8
3/2
7/4
15/8
2/1
9/4
19/8
5/2
11/4
23/8
3/1
13/4
27/8
7/2
15/4
31/8
4/1
Cable Tie Guitar Near JI Improvisation I don’t shy away from dissonance with this one… – recorded with reverberation and delay – compression added after recording. I tuned the guitar by ear – what I came up with is below.
D#2 +36, G#2 +41, C3 -30, D#3 +36, F#3 +47 measured tuning
1/1 366.00000 677.00000 871.00000 1200.00000 reduced tuning in cents – each fret is ~204 cents (a 9/8 just whole tone)
cents approximate JI interval
366 (16/13 tridecimal neutral third)
677 (40/27 grave fifth)
871 (28/17 septendecimal submajor sixth)
Trapped in Dreams is a dark ambient microtonal piece for processed alto voice, processed bowed cymbals, processed bowed china cymbals, processed bowed DIY electric cello (reference previous post).
The full quality video is here:
A Song for Night Traffic in what I guess is a 13 limit JI tuning detailed below. And – those are not mistakes, only notes I didn’t intend as deeply as the others, in the end its all relative anyways.
Thanks to Vassily Kaah who posted this photo.
