New Podcast at Libsyn

I put up a new podcast of my newest piece, Balloon Drum Music. It
includes a description, which you can read at
http://podcast1024.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=24529 , or listen
there as well. Please subscribe, using iTunes or other Podcast
catcher, and you can pick up each episode, include the one next week
on Kraig Grady's music.

Prent Rodgers

1. You mention slides from 7:9:11 to 4:5:6 or vice versa. Have you
ever done this keeping one of the pitches, let's say the lowest,
constant? Though the kind of progression I'm thinking of would
probably not fit in the tonality diamond.

2. I want more balloon drums! Thicker here, or, maybe, a piece solely
for balloon drumming circle?

3. Absolutely love the two oboes playing together often in different
timbres.

4. You call this "a version of" Balloon Drum Music. Could you release
another version so we can get a cross-section of the indeterminacy?

5. Some of your other pieces feature a sort of upward arpeggio of
4:5:6:7:9:11. In this one I think hear 13 and 15 tacked on to the end.
Quite lovely it is.

Jacob,
Thanks for listening. I've posted another version of the piece, with a
different set of random choices at my Soundclick site here:
http://www.soundclick.com/prentrodgers

I like the balloon drums too, but they tend to obscure the harmonies
if I turn them up too much. I'll do more with them in the future. The
oboe sonorities are fascinating. The version on SoundClick sounds more
like a bagpipe than an oboe. You are correct that I extend the
tonality diamond to the 15 limit in this piece. The arpeggio you
mentioned is 4:5:6:7:9:11:13:15:16. The first four are eighth notes,
the next four sixteenth, and last note held through the next measure.

Thanks for the comments.

Prent Rodgers

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Jacob" <jbarton@r...> wrote:
> 1. You mention slides from 7:9:11 to 4:5:6 or vice versa. Have you
> ever done this keeping one of the pitches, let's say the lowest,
> constant? Though the kind of progression I'm thinking of would
> probably not fit in the tonality diamond.
>
> 2. I want more balloon drums! Thicker here, or, maybe, a piece
solely
> for balloon drumming circle?
>
> 3. Absolutely love the two oboes playing together often in different
> timbres.
>
> 4. You call this "a version of" Balloon Drum Music. Could you
release
> another version so we can get a cross-section of the indeterminacy?
>
> 5. Some of your other pieces feature a sort of upward arpeggio of
> 4:5:6:7:9:11. In this one I think hear 13 and 15 tacked on to the
end.
> Quite lovely it is.

>I put up a new podcast of my newest piece, Balloon Drum Music. It
>includes a description, which you can read at
>http://podcast1024.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=24529 , or listen
>there as well. Please subscribe, using iTunes or other Podcast
>catcher, and you can pick up each episode, include the one next week
>on Kraig Grady's music.
>
>Prent Rodgers

Heya Prent,

What's the piece playing in the background in the beginning of
the cast?

-Carl

Carl,
It's a vamp that I was working on a year ago when I started
podcasting. It morphed into a piece for woodwind quintet, that doesn't
sound anything like it any more. Dry Hole Canyon on
http://www.soundclick.com/pro/?BandID=104802

Prent
> Heya Prent,
>
> What's the piece playing in the background in the beginning of
> the cast?
>
> -Carl

>Carl,
>It's a vamp that I was working on a year ago when I started
>podcasting. It morphed into a piece for woodwind quintet, that
>doesn't sound anything like it any more. Dry Hole Canyon on
>http://www.soundclick.com/pro/?BandID=104802

Oh yes, I have Dry Hole Canyon. I was confused because I went
through your catalog and couldn't find it.

-Carl