voice + computer piece

Hey everyone, I haven't been posting much, but I have been listening,
there's been a lot of good stuff recently. I thought I would add to
the fray...

http://tinyurl.com/7w6rz

This is a setting of Psalm 42. The melody is in the Greek enharmonic
genera, specifically:

1/1 31/30 16/15 9/8 93/80 6/5 4/3 3/2 31/20 8/5

and the accompaniment is set to the 11-limit diamond.

It's intended as a live performance piece, and the melody is played as
well as sung in order to a) make up for pitch inaccuracies in the
voice and b) trigger the harmony changes. The computer is flexible
and will accept bad notes without freaking, as you can tell when you
listen ;)

Any thoughts on the "setup" or the music itself are welcome.

-Chris

Chris,

I'm going to spend more time listening in a couple days when all my work/gigs is/are done, but I enjoyed one, somewhat distracted, listen through. I like the plain and direct nature of your vocal, as well, and I think your 'setting' only needs a little tweaking. These kind of tunings always seem very emotional to me.

Cheers,
Jon

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Bryan" wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/7w6rz
>
> This is a setting of Psalm 42. The melody is in the Greek enharmonic
> genera, specifically:
>
> 1/1 31/30 16/15 9/8 93/80 6/5 4/3 3/2 31/20 8/5
>
> and the accompaniment is set to the 11-limit diamond.

Well this is great! The enharmonic is glorious. The sine wave (?)
harmonies are great, especially when they all slide at different
rates. The diamondy progressions are right up there with some of Prent's.

>
> It's intended as a live performance piece, and the melody is played as
> well as sung in order to a) make up for pitch inaccuracies in the
> voice and b) trigger the harmony changes. The computer is flexible
> and will accept bad notes without freaking, as you can tell when you
> listen ;)
>
> Any thoughts on the "setup" or the music itself are welcome.

What hardware/software does it use? I want to perform it!

> Well this is great! The enharmonic is glorious. The sine wave (?)
> harmonies are great, especially when they all slide at different
> rates. The diamondy progressions are right up there with some of
Prent's.

Thanks! Yes, the accompaniment is all sines, although I'm
contemplating adding some harmonics to the tones... maybe something
resembling western overtone singing.

> What hardware/software does it use? I want to perform it!

Well, that would be awesome! The only thing you need is pd, which is
free and runs on practically any OS. I can easily e-mail you the
environment and the harp samples. I don't think it's very
computationally expensive... I'm running it on a 2.4 Sempron with no
problems. You would also either need a midi controller or software to
make midi from your qwerty ("vkeybd" is my choice). You could either
learn the melody by ear, or I could e-mail you a score.

Where were you thinking of performing it? I'm so excited!

Also, what's your story? Are you writing, performing? I don't think
you've posted much here...

You should probably respond off-list, my e-mail is melandchris@...

-Chris