live microtonal performance

Hi. I'm playing this Monday (July 14) at Bard College in upstate NY.
I'll be playing on some of the instruments I've created, in a scale
that divides two octaves into 15 equal intervals (160 cents each).
Most people I've encountered who work with non-12-tet scales/tunings
are doing synth or computer based stuff. Anyone else here into the
old school way of making sounds by vibrating objects? (not to imply
there's anything wrong with synths or computers).

Paul
www.geocities.com/ubertar

on 7/8/03 10:47 PM, Paul wrote:

> Anyone else here into the
> old school way of making sounds by vibrating objects?

Hi Paul, we have a small ensemble of instruments we call the Hillbilly
Tincamelan, which is a small gamelan made out of discarded materials and
objects.

There is a rack of gongs, a xylophone, a set of soprano bonangs, a thing
with drapery cords that I should come up with a name for, and miscellaneous
drums and rattles. Recently have added a Katagotan to it, but so far have
played the katagotan with an mbira and rattle grouping rather than with the
idiophones.

We show up unexpectedly at places and give concerts, which so far have been
welcomed by our hapless and unsuspecting audiences.

Your web page has a fantastic photo of you playing a number of instruments
I've never seen before. If I was within 150 miles of your concert, wild
horses couldn't keep me away, but I am about a thousand miles which is more
than a day trip can handle and I can't be gone for more than a day because
of the goats and chickens.

- Jeff

Hi Jeff,
I'd love to hear your tincamelan. I knew a guy in Seattle when I
lived on the left coast who built his own quasi gamelan instruments-
Mike Edwards. We studied the Javanese stuff under Jarrad Powell and
Maria Omo of Gamelan Pacifica.
I think now I'm only going to do one piece in that 160 cent scale- it
sounds really good on my m'birangi (sort of an elongated electric
m'bira, played with four fingers (no thumbs)) but not so great on
strings. Aside from that, I'll do a free jazz Sun Ra Coltrane freak
out thing on one of the new instruments (a nine soon-to-be ten string
bowed/plucked electric tube, related to my ubertar). Do you record
your goats and chickens?

Paul

--- In crazy_music@yahoogroups.com, "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...>
wrote:
> on 7/8/03 10:47 PM, Paul wrote:
>
> > Anyone else here into the
> > old school way of making sounds by vibrating objects?
>
> Hi Paul, we have a small ensemble of instruments we call the
Hillbilly
> Tincamelan, which is a small gamelan made out of discarded
materials and
> objects.
>
> There is a rack of gongs, a xylophone, a set of soprano bonangs, a
thing
> with drapery cords that I should come up with a name for, and
miscellaneous
> drums and rattles. Recently have added a Katagotan to it, but so
far have
> played the katagotan with an mbira and rattle grouping rather than
with the
> idiophones.
>
> We show up unexpectedly at places and give concerts, which so far
have been
> welcomed by our hapless and unsuspecting audiences.
>
> Your web page has a fantastic photo of you playing a number of
instruments
> I've never seen before. If I was within 150 miles of your concert,
wild
> horses couldn't keep me away, but I am about a thousand miles which
is more
> than a day trip can handle and I can't be gone for more than a day
because
> of the goats and chickens.
>
> - Jeff