My friend, composer Anton Rovner, who is living in Moscow, sent along the following synopsis of the microtonal music of the Russian composer Protopopoff....
Anton Rovner recently sent me a letter which I found very interesting which outlines Scriabin's flirtation with microtonality: First quotation - Sabaneyev...
Dear Friends and acquaintances Planet Tree Music Festival continues this Friday and Saturday (9 & 10 November) at Conway Hall and the October Gallery. Do come...
Hey all, Here is something new at: http://geocities.com/nonoctave/ "The Caves" A piece for strings and struck instrument. Comments and reactions are welcome. -...
Hi Jeff, ... Wondered where you'd got to! I can just imagine being in a cave with stalactites and water dripping from them into a still underground pool. ...
Nice piece, Jeff! The plucked sounds seem to represent drops of water falling into underground pools, and the strings tell of that eerie dread one feels in a...
... Thanks John! ... Off the top of my head I recall that it is structured like a marimba but I have one of the (FM) modulation stacks controllable & that...
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Hello, there, everyone, and many thanks to Jacky Ligon for producing and uploading some audio files made from a recording of some of my improvisations. This is...
... Hi Margo! By the way, I only can download 45 seconds of each song (this is the typical yahoo situation for me) so these comments only apply to the first...
... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crazy_music/message/1142 ... I thought the contrast between the "celesty-sounding" things and the strings worked well... JP...
... Thanks Jacky! ... Yes a handful of composers do exist. ... Thanks for the comments on Reperio which indeed is a sweet and intriguing tuning but actually...
... Hello, there Jeff -- with greetings also to your wife. I've waited a bit to reply in case others might have comments to make which my reply might unduly...
Dear friends and acquaintances, please be aware of the following event in New York in January. Those of you who are not within travelling access of New York...
Hey all! Here is a new book on tuning. Describes the 'evolution' of tuning through primitive, practically unsuable scales like the ancients used to the morue...
I found this link, it's a Flash interface that let's you play and mix a synth. Yes it a game, but it's kind of fun, since not everyone has one on their...
Hey all, Here are some thoughts. If you were to add the numbers 24 and 18, how would you do it? Or better yet, if you were teaching an beginning math student...
Hey, Here is some C code to produce a useful type of scale which I invented some time ago. Thought I'd drag it out in case it's useful to anyone... enjoy! -...
Friends, Let me bounce some ideas off you all here. I am trying to come up with good english terms and symbols for a useful math operator I want to introduce ...
... Noop. That the Pythagorean Comma. The syntonic comma is the difference between four fifths and a major third. Other than that, yup. Yeah I use modular...
... OH, it's not that big a deal. Here's the summary of my various issues: 1) Base-12 ? YES I LOVE BASE 12. Way better than silly decimal. I have my own system...
... Yeah I was a bit surprised when you let out with that one fine day. ... Two step program: 1. Hi my name is Jeff and I'm a base 12 addict. 2. Hi Jeff ... ...
[Marc:] ... Sure, though some small assembly is required: Guide: Converting to a Dvorak keyboard layout ... Step #1 - wendycarlos.com - thank you Wendy for...