New Music in 15 edo

I think of this as a little study in dissonance. It can be found at my
blog http://danielthompson.blogspot.com/

I welcome your comments and suggestions as I'm pretty new to making
music with a computer. Thanks.

--- "microtonaldan" wrote:
>
> I think of this as a little study in dissonance. It can be found at
my blog http://danielthompson.blogspot.com/
>
> I welcome your comments and suggestions as I'm pretty new to making
music with a computer. Thanks.

Hi Dan,

It's quite attractive, thoroughly musical, and such dissonance as it
evinces is probably mostly in the mind ... I believe your choice of
an inharmonic bell timbre provides enough vertical dissonances among
partials of each note to swamp any vertical dissonances between notes.

I was wondering why it felt slightly Javanese, then realised
belatedly that it's sort of in three sets of 5-EDO. (Need sleep.)

Supposing you want to MAKE a really dissonant piece, why not perform
the same piece with a strongly *harmonic* timbre instead? Or use
bells (with strong inharmonic partials) tuned with their prime notes
in a small subset of low-prime JI?

One comment on your blog suggested you might highlight the "melody"
by a different or variant timbre. I don't feel that's at all
necessary for this piece to work well; I will replay this quite
happily *exactly* as I first heard it. Thanks for the music!

Regards,
Yahya

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "microtonaldan"
<microtonaldan@...> wrote:
>
> I think of this as a little study in dissonance. It can be found at my
> blog http://danielthompson.blogspot.com/
>
> I welcome your comments and suggestions as I'm pretty new to making
> music with a computer. Thanks.
>

Very much enjoyed this, Dan! It was rather mencing and dark, in a good
way. I'm interested to hear more of your music.

Welcome to our community!

Best,
Aaron.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Krister Johnson"
<aaron@...> wrote:

> Very much enjoyed this, Dan! It was rather mencing and dark, in a good
> way. I'm interested to hear more of your music.
>
> Welcome to our community!

Cool. What do you say to being on a bittorrent album? I finally
registered at Demonoid, which is an annoying process since
registrations are usually closed, but I'm read to rock and roll. This
at least provides an alternative route to things like the snips site,
which should come with a warning label that it was designed by idiots.
Browser and download manager settings must be exactly right or it won't
work. Bleh.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith"
<genewardsmith@...> wrote:
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Krister Johnson"
> <aaron@> wrote:
>
> > Very much enjoyed this, Dan! It was rather mencing and dark, in a
good
> > way. I'm interested to hear more of your music.
> >
> > Welcome to our community!
>
> Cool. What do you say to being on a bittorrent album? I finally
> registered at Demonoid, which is an annoying process since
> registrations are usually closed, but I'm read to rock and roll.
This
> at least provides an alternative route to things like the snips
site,
> which should come with a warning label that it was designed by
idiots.
> Browser and download manager settings must be exactly right or it
won't
> work. Bleh.
>
I'm not too familiar with BitTorrent, but I'm looking into it. I
welcome any information that you have. I'm not pleased about the
problems with esnips. I'll try to get a better setup. I may get a
website for hosting audio files that I can link to. Thanks.

Aaron Krister Johnson wrote:
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "microtonaldan"
> <microtonaldan@...> wrote:
>> I think of this as a little study in dissonance. It can be found at my >> blog http://danielthompson.blogspot.com/
>>
>> I welcome your comments and suggestions as I'm pretty new to making
>> music with a computer. Thanks.
>>
> > Very much enjoyed this, Dan! It was rather mencing and dark, in a good
> way. I'm interested to hear more of your music.
> > Welcome to our community!
> > Best,
> Aaron.

I did get it to work this time by clicking on the play button. I don't know if that was there the first time, but I was having trouble with it the other day. (At least the player on the blogspot page works, but the esnips page doesn't have a "play" option that I can see anywhere.)

This has a nice scale with a bit of a pelog flavor to it, which fits well with the timbre of the bells. But I think the dissonance of the bell timbre obscures whatever dissonance there may be in the music. I agree with X. J. Scott's comment on the page that it could use some variation in timbre.

In any case, it's always good to hear someone getting some good use out of 15-ET; it seems that everyone does something a little different with it.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
wrote:
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> I did get it to work this time by clicking on the play button. I
> don't know if that was there the first time, but I was having
> trouble with it the other day.

It did not work first for me, too - I think the reason was that the
whole Esnips website was down for about one day. Now it works for me,
too.
Funny piece - reminds me a little bit the Harry Potters movie. And does
not sound that dissonant at all to me...
--
Hans Straub