Decaphonic Guitar

Hello microtonals. This is my first message to the group. I wanted to share
with you some new sounds from my decaphonic guitar, which is based on the
ten-tet scale discussed by Bill Sethares in Chapter 12 of his book Tunning,
Timbre, Spectrum, Scale. What initially got me into this are, first, his
comments of his composition "Ten Fingers", using a sampled guitar ["..a
musical style from an unknown musical tradition" (p.262)] and "...there are
no ten-ten guitars..." (p.261). So I decided to have my luthier Mateo Crespi
from Buenos Aires built me a tent-tet guitar and started experimenting with
it. You can hear my fist experiment, recorded a few days after I got the
instrument in the following link where I also put a picture of the guitar

http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/

The composition uses mostly the tritone but in other thigs I wrote since I
use it less. The rythmic section is played by Michael Gould, who teaches
persussion at the University of Mighigan. More soon
Best
Alberto Rojo

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Welcome brother acoustic guitarist Alberto!

This is great! I look forward to hearing more 10tet guitar, a most
auspicious beginning! A nice looking instrument as well. We all need a
luthier chained in the basement to make and fret our guitars as we need them
(just kidding).

Dante

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[mailto:MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Alberto Rojo
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:26 PM
To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MMM] Decaphonic Guitar

Hello microtonals. This is my first message to the group. I wanted to share
with you some new sounds from my decaphonic guitar, which is based on the
ten-tet scale discussed by Bill Sethares in Chapter 12 of his book Tunning,
Timbre, Spectrum, Scale. What initially got me into this are, first, his
comments of his composition "Ten Fingers", using a sampled guitar ["..a
musical style from an unknown musical tradition" (p.262)] and "...there are
no ten-ten guitars..." (p.261). So I decided to have my luthier Mateo Crespi
from Buenos Aires built me a tent-tet guitar and started experimenting with
it. You can hear my fist experiment, recorded a few days after I got the
instrument in the following link where I also put a picture of the guitar

http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/

The composition uses mostly the tritone but in other thigs I wrote since I
use it less. The rythmic section is played by Michael Gould, who teaches
persussion at the University of Mighigan. More soon
Best
Alberto Rojo

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Yahoo! Groups Links

At 10:26 AM 8/3/2006, you wrote:
>Hello microtonals. This is my first message to the group. I wanted to share
>with you some new sounds from my decaphonic guitar, which is based on the
>ten-tet scale discussed by Bill Sethares in Chapter 12 of his book Tunning,
>Timbre, Spectrum, Scale. What initially got me into this are, first, his
>comments of his composition "Ten Fingers", using a sampled guitar ["..a
>musical style from an unknown musical tradition" (p.262)] and "...there are
>no ten-ten guitars..." (p.261). So I decided to have my luthier Mateo Crespi
>from Buenos Aires built me a tent-tet guitar and started experimenting with
>it. You can hear my fist experiment, recorded a few days after I got the
>instrument in the following link where I also put a picture of the guitar
>
>http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
>
>The composition uses mostly the tritone but in other thigs I wrote since I
>use it less. The rythmic section is played by Michael Gould, who teaches
>persussion at the University of Mighigan. More soon
>Best
>Alberto Rojo

Hello Alberto,

Thanks for sharing your work. Very high-quality sounds. I look
forward to hearing more!

-Carl

Thank you! I hope to show you more soon.
Alberto

On 8/3/06, Dante Rosati <dante@...> wrote:
>
> Welcome brother acoustic guitarist Alberto!
>
> This is great! I look forward to hearing more 10tet guitar, a most
> auspicious beginning! A nice looking instrument as well. We all need a
> luthier chained in the basement to make and fret our guitars as we need
> them
> (just kidding).
>
> Dante
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com <MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com <MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>]On
> Behalf Of Alberto Rojo
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:26 PM
> To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com <MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [MMM] Decaphonic Guitar
>
> Hello microtonals. This is my first message to the group. I wanted to
> share
> with you some new sounds from my decaphonic guitar, which is based on the
> ten-tet scale discussed by Bill Sethares in Chapter 12 of his book
> Tunning,
> Timbre, Spectrum, Scale. What initially got me into this are, first, his
> comments of his composition "Ten Fingers", using a sampled guitar ["..a
> musical style from an unknown musical tradition" (p.262)] and "...there
> are
> no ten-ten guitars..." (p.261). So I decided to have my luthier Mateo
> Crespi
> from Buenos Aires built me a tent-tet guitar and started experimenting
> with
> it. You can hear my fist experiment, recorded a few days after I got the
> instrument in the following link where I also put a picture of the guitar
>
> http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
>
> The composition uses mostly the tritone but in other thigs I wrote since I
> use it less. The rythmic section is played by Michael Gould, who teaches
> persussion at the University of Mighigan. More soon
> Best
> Alberto Rojo
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

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I like!

--
* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

Hi Alberto,

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Alberto Rojo" wrote:
>
> Hello microtonals. This is my first message to the group. I wanted
to share with you some new sounds from my decaphonic guitar ... You
can hear my fist experiment, recorded a few days after I got the
instrument in the following link where I also put a picture of the
guitar ...
> Best
> Alberto Rojo

Nice job! Welcome to the group. I look forward to hearing more of
your music, and learning about your approach to composition.

Regards,
Yahya

Yahya, thank you for writing. I hope to show more soon!
Best,
Alberto

On 8/3/06, yahya_melb <yahya@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Alberto,
>
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com <MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Alberto Rojo" wrote:
> >
> > Hello microtonals. This is my first message to the group. I wanted
> to share with you some new sounds from my decaphonic guitar ... You
>
> can hear my fist experiment, recorded a few days after I got the
> instrument in the following link where I also put a picture of the
> guitar ...
> > Best
> > Alberto Rojo
>
> Nice job! Welcome to the group. I look forward to hearing more of
> your music, and learning about your approach to composition.
>
> Regards,
> Yahya
>
>
>

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This is really cool stuff!

I especially liked 'alberto_mike_mix'.

I would really love to hear what you would do with a 22tet guitar,
or a stagger-fret JI guitar like Dante Rosati uses....

Welcome to the MMM group--I look forward to hearing more from you!

Best,
Aaron.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Alberto Rojo"
<albertogrojo@...> wrote:
>
> Hello microtonals. This is my first message to the group. I wanted
to share
> with you some new sounds from my decaphonic guitar, which is based
on the
> ten-tet scale discussed by Bill Sethares in Chapter 12 of his book
Tunning,
> Timbre, Spectrum, Scale. What initially got me into this are,
first, his
> comments of his composition "Ten Fingers", using a sampled guitar
["..a
> musical style from an unknown musical tradition" (p.262)]
and "...there are
> no ten-ten guitars..." (p.261). So I decided to have my luthier
Mateo Crespi
> from Buenos Aires built me a tent-tet guitar and started
experimenting with
> it. You can hear my fist experiment, recorded a few days after I
got the
> instrument in the following link where I also put a picture of the
guitar
>
> http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
>
> The composition uses mostly the tritone but in other thigs I wrote
since I
> use it less. The rythmic section is played by Michael Gould, who
teaches
> persussion at the University of Mighigan. More soon
> Best
> Alberto Rojo
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Thanks! Perhaps some day I will try the 22tet guitar.
Best,
Alberto

On 8/11/06, Aaron Krister Johnson <aaron@...> wrote:
>
> This is really cool stuff!
>
> I especially liked 'alberto_mike_mix'.
>
> I would really love to hear what you would do with a 22tet guitar,
> or a stagger-fret JI guitar like Dante Rosati uses....
>
> Welcome to the MMM group--I look forward to hearing more from you!
>
> Best,
> Aaron.
>
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com <MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Alberto Rojo"
> <albertogrojo@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello microtonals. This is my first message to the group. I wanted
> to share
> > with you some new sounds from my decaphonic guitar, which is based
> on the
> > ten-tet scale discussed by Bill Sethares in Chapter 12 of his book
> Tunning,
> > Timbre, Spectrum, Scale. What initially got me into this are,
> first, his
> > comments of his composition "Ten Fingers", using a sampled guitar
> ["..a
> > musical style from an unknown musical tradition" (p.262)]
> and "...there are
> > no ten-ten guitars..." (p.261). So I decided to have my luthier
> Mateo Crespi
> > from Buenos Aires built me a tent-tet guitar and started
> experimenting with
> > it. You can hear my fist experiment, recorded a few days after I
> got the
> > instrument in the following link where I also put a picture of the
> guitar
> >
> > http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
> >
> > The composition uses mostly the tritone but in other thigs I wrote
> since I
> > use it less. The rythmic section is played by Michael Gould, who
> teaches
> > persussion at the University of Mighigan. More soon
> > Best
> > Alberto Rojo
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>

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