Archive for the ‘12 edo’ Category
Friday, May 17th, 2013
The 11th Blue Moon
Poem
Blue Moon
by Richard Leach
and recited / sung (in 12 edo / JI) by Christiane Offenbar
and 11 edo vocoder / 11 edo synthesis by Chris Vaisvil
Not the one that appears every two or three years -
the one that appears once in forty-four years.
Not the one that is full for a single night -
the one that is full every night it is in the sky.
Not the one on which to see a man or a rabbit -
the one on which there are branches and leaves in silhouette.
Not the one that is drowned out by a glowing city -
the one that is as bright above a city as it is where the sky is darkest.
Not the one by which you might read a newspaper headline -
the one by which you can read what had been invisible.
Not the one whose name is part of a figure of speech -
the one that asks us to say something new.
Not the one that rhymes with hue and shoe and June and spoon -
the one that rhymes with night and weight and hold and hope.
Blue Moon, Blue Moon, Blue Moon
And hope Blue Moon, Blue Moon, Blue Moon
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 11 edo, 12 edo, ambient, composition, electronic, simultaneous tunings, spoken word / poetry | No Comments »
Monday, May 13th, 2013
The Broken Cathedral of Christchurch is an ambient poly-tuning piece using 11, 12, and 19 notes to the octave. The instruments used are a Korg MS2000 synthesizer, 19 edo electric guitar (several tracks), and 5 string bass – all with liberal application of effects, mixing, and mastering. The piece is dedicated to the Anglican cathedral of Christchurch New Zealand which will be brought down and rebuilt due to extensive earthquake damage.
This is a repost because the original post was damaged.
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 11 edo, 12 edo, 19 edo, 19 edo, ambient, bass, electronic, guitar, simultaneous tunings | 1 Comment »
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
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 12 edo, chamber, harmonic series segment, piano, string orchestra | No Comments »
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.
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 12 edo, aleatoric, chamber, composition, ensemble | No Comments »
Friday, April 26th, 2013
Under the Ice of Europa is an ambient piece for only the most dedicated. It has a run time of 42 minutes and should be listened to at a very loud volume to get the full effect. The initial sound sources were 5 instances of EFM Synthia 2 (EMI Synthi emulator) 1 instance of Altair 4 and 1 instance of Albino. There was a lot of work done in the sound design of synthi patches and arpeggiation was applied to all tracks. Then, yes I ran it through PES, but not with default settings. I used three instances, two of which were through the harmonic filter with 21 harmonics at a just fifth and the three outputs mixed together. Its a pretty complex mixture that is constantly changing. However, I realize 42 minutes of anything is a difficult hand, so my hat is off to you if you decide to try it and actually make it all the way through.
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 12 edo, ambient, composition, electronic, ensemble, Harmonic Series - un-octave-reduced, Music, simultaneous tunings, tuning, unconstrained, unknown | No Comments »
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, April 12th, 2013
Grasping Clouds is an ambient piece for electric 15 edo guitar and a slew of effects – some of which add a touch of 12 edo to the mix.
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 12 edo, 15 edo, 15 edo, ambient, electronic, microtonal, performance, simultaneous tunings | 2 Comments »
Sunday, March 24th, 2013
Reg Smith and I team up across the Atlantic for a chilled piano / vocal piece in 12 equal. A big thanks to Reg for the lyrics and vocals.
Drama in a Cheap Hotel in Room 52
I’m in room 52
and I honestly don’t know what to do
you’ve taken your love and I feel I’m on borrowed time
my heart is bleeding all over the floor
I don’t think I can take anymore
of this pain
not now you’ve left me in need of your love
its like a scene from a B movie
it’s gone to Black & White
film noir at its best, my heart is breaking
in room 52 , I tell you, I don’t know what to do
I’m breaking up, my mind is in collapse
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
Alexey Leonov performing the first EVA.
Walking the Airlock is a poly-tuned piece using predominately 16 and 32 edo (notes per octave) with some unavoidable 12 equal and free-pitch material. The synths used are albino, zeta+ 2.1, kontakt, session drummer 3, and izotope stutter edit. Some effects and post editing were applied. The piece was performed on an M-Audio 88es and Korg nano-kontrol 1. Recorded in Sonar X1 with its native midi arpeggiator added to the session 3 drummer track. As for the picture – per Wikipedia
– NASA planners invented the term extra-vehicular activity in the early 1960s for the Apollo program to land men on the Moon, because the astronauts would leave the spacecraft to collect lunar material samples and deploy scientific experiments. To support this, and other Apollo objectives, the Gemini program was spun off to develop the capability for astronauts to work outside a two-man Earth orbiting spacecraft. However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two- or three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo. The Soviets were able to launch two Voskhod capsules before the first manned Gemini was launched.
The Soviets’ avionics technology was not as advanced as that of the United States, so the Voskhod cabin could not have been left depressurized by an open hatch; otherwise the air-cooled electronics would have overheated. Therefore a spacewalking cosmonaut would have to enter and exit the spacecraft through an airlock.
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 12 edo, 16 edo, 32 edo, advant garde, electronic, ensemble, performance, unconstrained | No Comments »
