HI Margo, Nice to hear it without the drone. I imagine it would be a lot of fun for a choir to sing it. Or a consort of recorders to play it for that matter. ...
... create. ... you don't ... is to ... many ... should ... repeat ... So when Mozart lifted stuff for the K 296 violin sonata from J. C. Bach, would that be...
Hello, Just for info, and for Mac users only, "Max Magic Microtuner" has been updated and includes new export features: IRCAM MIDI cent format, BitHeadz Unity...
Gene, {you wrote...} ... Though we are stretching definitions a good bit, in the difference of technology (re-using notated music vs. actual audio copying),...
Welcome, from a fellow beginning microtonal musician. ... happen to ... tuning ... long ago Cubase ... thing... ... use these ... Cubase has a microtonal scale...
Hey Matt, {you wrote...} ... Oh, one of the *quiet* ones! Well, I'm glad to have you! First off, you've got a lot of info in one blast, so I don't know that it...
Fellow Microtonalists: Cross posted to Tuning also. I've put a new piece up on my SoundClick web site. It's based on a set of major and minor chords in the...
Prent, {you wrote...} ... I'm not a microtonalist, but I'll chime in: another cool one! I loved the glisses, and I especially liked the section around 5:00,...
Another amzing work, Prent !!!! Keep 'em coming. Its amazing how interestingly human you make algorithmically conceived music sound. Best, Aaron. ... -- Aaron...
Aaron, {you wrote...} ... Yeah, Marta Sebestyen is a wonderful singer, no? You might want to check out Taraf de Haidouks (Band of Bringands) as well, a killer...
hey Aaron! I happen to catch the tour at UCLA royce hall where they played along side each other. it was great and even had a chance to exchange a few words of...
... Thanks for that--I'll check it out. ... Well, it's a long way from 'doing justice' to 'panacea'...... ;) 31-tet is a darn good tuning that preserves much...
Hello Aaron! Yes 31 ET is a good tuning and was the very first tuning i worked with for quite a few years when i found i couldn't stand the meantone second....
Aaron, {you wrote...} ... While many articles would be apropos for the bi-monthly "Wide World of Animals", most people would assume that an article on Maine...
... Why yes !! Good point ;) ... Ah! Ok...so you like irrational but unequal tunings? Temperings? ... Well, there's still what happens to a theme or what have...
... hmmm... I have no problem with the meantone 2nd. OTOH, sometimes I *do* have a problem with not being able to use the triad built on D major in a C ...
Aaron, No, there *won't* be another tuning war - I'll see to that! :) I did want to address one point, which I am indelibly connected with: {you wrote...} ... ...
... True enough, but I would point out that Partch used an awful lot of instruments with percussive decay lengths! It's hard to sound New Age with percussion. ...
Aaron, {you wrote...} ... Tell that to the drum circles! But I would also point out that the first 20 years of Partch's output contained very little...
... tet is a ... and the ... wonderful ... is 'close ... modulatory ... to do the ... The characteristic meantone calm is how you know it isn't JI, I think....
I hate to add verbiage to this age-old time waster. Also, it seems a topic more suited to the tuning list than MMM. Though I find it heartening that it has...
... wrote: On the other hand i do find that ET's do have moods that sooner ... fact not an ... Very high number ets all sound alike, since they all sound like...
... tunings - now ... compose ... You mean like that old piece of mine which transmutes a theme in 46- equal to a related one in 27-equal, and then back?...
... Harry ... sounds "new ... movement, or ... needs ... purposely. ... Age with ... One thing n-et makes it easy to do is the endlessly modulating effect that...
Gene, {you wrote...} ... That would certainly qualify, if the meaning of "transmutes" is the same as "modulate". But (naturally) I didn't mean composing with...