Bittorrents of Microtonal Music

Someone is posting torrent files of microtonal music at a few places,
including mininova. http://www.mininova.org/tor/288146 and
http://www.mininova.org/tor/288146 are two places I saw the notices.

You will need a torrent client, such as BitTorrent to obtain the
files. The latest is an out of print CRI recordings. The hoster writes:

"The ninth AGP torrent features the work of Ben Johnston, who was born
in 1926 and studied with Harry Partch, Darius Milhaud, and John Cage.
Johnston is best known for his microtonal compositions, based on
overtone series to produce pure intervals relative to each note of the
octave. The first two pieces in this torrent are selected from his
later microtonal compositions, using an extended overtone series and
thus a greater diversity of intervals. The first is his sixth string
quartet and the second is a choral piece with texts by Gerard Manley
Hopkins, sung by the Swingle Singers. The sound of pure and microtonal
intervals using voices is really quite striking. The third and fourth
pieces are the two parts (with the LP flip in between) of an
indeterminate composition that emerged from a collaboration with The
New Verbal Workshop, with Johnston participating as a member. This
piece of sound poetry is one of Johnston's non-microtonal works.

The recordings that comprise this torrent are from two CRI LPs (CRI SD
497 and CRI SD 515), and exhaust the out-of-print Johnston
compositions that I could find in my stacks. A number of Johnston's
other string quartets are in print, as are a set of pieces for
microtonal piano. The text file included in the torrent contains the
liner notes from both LPs.

Equipment used for A/D conversion: Lyra Helikon phono cartridge, Linn
LP12/Lingo turntable, Linn Ittok tonearm, Audioquest Leopard tonearm
cable, PS Audio PS2 preamplifier, Kimber PBJ interconnect, M-Audio
Audiophile USB A/D converter.

01 - String Quartet no. 6 [21:41]
02 - Sonnets of Desolation [10:50]
03 - Visions and Spels, side 1 [10:00]
04 - Visions and Spels, side 2 [16:53]"

Last week the torrent was FLAC's of Ezra Simms recordings.

Prent Rodgers

I crave someone's seed.

Joe

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers"
<prentrodgers@...> wrote:
>
> Someone is posting torrent files of microtonal music at a few places,
> including mininova. http://www.mininova.org/tor/288146 and
> http://www.mininova.org/tor/288146 are two places I saw the notices.
>
> You will need a torrent client, such as BitTorrent to obtain the
> files. The latest is an out of print CRI recordings. The hoster writes:
>
> "The ninth AGP torrent features the work of Ben Johnston, who was born
> in 1926 and studied with Harry Partch, Darius Milhaud, and John Cage.
> Johnston is best known for his microtonal compositions, based on
> overtone series to produce pure intervals relative to each note of the
> octave. The first two pieces in this torrent are selected from his
> later microtonal compositions, using an extended overtone series and
> thus a greater diversity of intervals. The first is his sixth string
> quartet and the second is a choral piece with texts by Gerard Manley
> Hopkins, sung by the Swingle Singers. The sound of pure and microtonal
> intervals using voices is really quite striking. The third and fourth
> pieces are the two parts (with the LP flip in between) of an
> indeterminate composition that emerged from a collaboration with The
> New Verbal Workshop, with Johnston participating as a member. This
> piece of sound poetry is one of Johnston's non-microtonal works.
>
> The recordings that comprise this torrent are from two CRI LPs (CRI SD
> 497 and CRI SD 515), and exhaust the out-of-print Johnston
> compositions that I could find in my stacks. A number of Johnston's
> other string quartets are in print, as are a set of pieces for
> microtonal piano. The text file included in the torrent contains the
> liner notes from both LPs.
>
> Equipment used for A/D conversion: Lyra Helikon phono cartridge, Linn
> LP12/Lingo turntable, Linn Ittok tonearm, Audioquest Leopard tonearm
> cable, PS Audio PS2 preamplifier, Kimber PBJ interconnect, M-Audio
> Audiophile USB A/D converter.
>
> 01 - String Quartet no. 6 [21:41]
> 02 - Sonnets of Desolation [10:50]
> 03 - Visions and Spels, side 1 [10:00]
> 04 - Visions and Spels, side 2 [16:53]"
>
> Last week the torrent was FLAC's of Ezra Simms recordings.
>
> Prent Rodgers
>

At 07:43 AM 4/22/2006, you wrote:
>Someone is posting torrent files of microtonal music at a few places,
>including mininova. http://www.mininova.org/tor/288146 and
>http://www.mininova.org/tor/288146 are two places I saw the notices.

Great finde, Prent! This sounds like my kinda guy.

-Carl

At 08:46 AM 4/22/2006, you wrote:
>I crave someone's seed.
>
>Joe

Me too.

-Carl

Ok, I have 86.4% of this. Anybody got the rest?

-C.

>I crave someone's seed.
>
>Joe
>
>--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers"
><prentrodgers@...> wrote:
>>
>> Someone is posting torrent files of microtonal music at a few places,
>> including mininova. http://www.mininova.org/tor/288146 and
>> http://www.mininova.org/tor/288146 are two places I saw the notices.
>>
//
>>
>> 01 - String Quartet no. 6 [21:41]
>> 02 - Sonnets of Desolation [10:50]
>> 03 - Visions and Spels, side 1 [10:00]
>> 04 - Visions and Spels, side 2 [16:53]"
>>
>> Last week the torrent was FLAC's of Ezra Simms recordings.
>>
>> Prent Rodgers

torrent?

Carl Lumma wrote:
> Ok, I have 86.4% of this. Anybody got the rest?
>
> -C.
>
> >> I crave someone's seed.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers"
>> <prentrodgers@...> wrote:
>> >>> Someone is posting torrent files of microtonal music at a few places,
>>> including mininova. http://www.mininova.org/tor/288146 and
>>> http://www.mininova.org/tor/288146 are two places I saw the notices. >>>
>>> > //
> >>> 01 - String Quartet no. 6 [21:41]
>>> 02 - Sonnets of Desolation [10:50]
>>> 03 - Visions and Spels, side 1 [10:00]
>>> 04 - Visions and Spels, side 2 [16:53]"
>>>
>>> Last week the torrent was FLAC's of Ezra Simms recordings. >>>
>>> Prent Rodgers
>>> >
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Yay, I've got it all! Will seed 'round the clock for a few
days.

-Carl

At 11:37 AM 4/26/2006, you wrote:
>Ok, I have 86.4% of this. Anybody got the rest?
>
>-C.
>
>>I crave someone's seed.
>>
>>Joe

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@...> wrote:
>
> Ok, I have 86.4% of this. Anybody got the rest?

I've got some--how can I tell what?

>> Ok, I have 86.4% of this. Anybody got the rest?
>
>I've got some--how can I tell what?

Find out where your client is saving the files and try to
play them. Some clients also give you status for each file
in the torrent.

-Carl

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@...> wrote:
>
> >> Ok, I have 86.4% of this. Anybody got the rest?
> >
> >I've got some--how can I tell what?
>
> Find out where your client is saving the files and try to
> play them. Some clients also give you status for each file
> in the torrent.

It's still blowing me off with "server busy".

>> >> Ok, I have 86.4% of this. Anybody got the rest?
>> >
>> >I've got some--how can I tell what?
>>
>> Find out where your client is saving the files and try to
>> play them. Some clients also give you status for each file
>> in the torrent.
>
>It's still blowing me off with "server busy".

Hmm. What client are you using? You should have my full
128Kbps upload available to you, but I'm not serving anything
at the moment.

-Carl