Xenophon 3

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"Xenophon 3".... saz, 'oud, cittern, reed pipe and percussion; 11-et

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Jon,

Another very nice piece. I enjoyed it tremendously.

Prent Rodgers

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "J.Smith" <jsmith9624@...> wrote:
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> "Xenophon 3".... saz, 'oud, cittern, reed pipe and percussion; 11-et
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--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers"
<prentrodgers@...> wrote:
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> Jon,
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> Another very nice piece. I enjoyed it tremendously.
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> Prent Rodgers
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> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "J.Smith" <jsmith9624@> wrote:
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> > Uploaded to ZeBox:
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> > "Xenophon 3".... saz, 'oud, cittern, reed pipe and percussion; 11-et
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> > http://zebox.com/jlsmith/music <http://zebox.com/jlsmith/music>
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I especially like the bass ostinato that evolves (is that the saz or
the 'oud?). Did you compose with a mode in mind?

J.Smith wrote:
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> > http://zebox.com/jlsmith/music <http://zebox.com/jlsmith/music>

Interesting use for a difficult tuning; I like it. Traditional harmony doesn't even come close to working in 11-ET, so it forces you to think differently, but you can do interesting things with the melodic material.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
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> Interesting use for a difficult tuning; I like it. Traditional
harmony
> doesn't even come close to working in 11-ET, so it forces you to
think
> differently, but you can do interesting things with the melodic
material.

It makes some sense as half of 22-et.

Hi

Like all your works , very great!

Shaahin Mohajeri

Tombak Player & Researcher , Microtonal Composer

My web siteوب سايت شاهين مهاجري <http://240edo.googlepages.com/>

My farsi page in Harmonytalk صفحه اختصاصي در هارموني تاك <http://www.harmonytalk.com/mohajeri>

Shaahin Mohajeri in Wikipedia شاهين مهاجري دردائره المعارف ويكي پديا <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaahin_mohajeri>

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JLS,

{you wrote...}
>"Xenophon 3".... saz, 'oud, cittern, reed pipe and percussion; 11-et

Man, I'm having basically *no* time for listening, but I had to put my ears around this to hear what you've been up to. I like all the parts, melodically and instrumental sounds, except for the drum sounds. Just doesn't go with the rest of the ensemble. I also totally yearn for some dynamic contrast in the piece, because it is seeming static and mechanical, when the music feels like it should ebb and flow more.

Cheers,
Jon

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This is cool...this piece is very promising...my one comment would be
that it was a bit long to sit through something that straight,
mechanically MIDI, and the particular timbres were a bit flat for my
taste. So I think I agree with Jon here. I don't know, maybe I'm just
too sleepy...I'll listen again in the morning. The ideas, the 'ism' of
the piece, were really fun, and I could see a live sounding played in
MIDI file with different timbres really really smoking! (Maybe it was
more timbres than anything--I like certain mechanical sounding things
like cool player piano performances--so I don't know) But I think I'd
love to hear the micro-errors of tight *human* performance more than
the lock step MIDI in this setting.

Anyway, I always have enjoyed your work...I'm curious, though---aren't
you in that Delian society group? Don't they spit on the very idea of
11-equal? ;)

-A.

Jon,

I like what you did with what seems seems to me to be a very
difficult tuning. I have to agree with some of the comments that
indicate it sounds somewhat mechanical. I'm not sure that this is a
bad thing. I kind of get a mental picture of alien robots having a
party. I think it would be interesting to further build upon this
mechanical effect, perhaps adding additional layers of metallic
sounding percussion and gradually adding to a feeling of tension and
rhythmic intensity as the piece progresses. Of course, if you can
make it sound more natural instead, it would probably appeal to wider
audience.

Daniel Thompson

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