Fun with 53

I'm having some fun with 53 tone equal temperament. It is so easy to
just kind of drift around, while keeping the same ratios intact. Today
I put some stuff together that rises by 1 step in 53, which I call
77:76. It goes up a total of three steps, but it is almost
imperceptible while it does. Finger piano, bass flute, cello, and
percussion from a piece of wood with some funny things attached, into
a contact microphone. All with Csound. It kind of moves along.

Listen here: http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2007/03/better-balance.html

Prent Rodgers

The drift is imperceptible for me. At least at first hearing. But I like this piece.
The wood, funny things and contact microphone in Csound? I don't understand.
Milan Prent Rodgers wrote:
> I'm having some fun with 53 tone equal temperament. It is so easy to
> just kind of drift around, while keeping the same ratios intact. Today
> I put some stuff together that rises by 1 step in 53, which I call
> 77:76. It goes up a total of three steps, but it is almost
> imperceptible while it does. Finger piano, bass flute, cello, and
> percussion from a piece of wood with some funny things attached, into
> a contact microphone. All with Csound. It kind of moves along.
>
> Listen here: http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2007/03/better-balance.html
>
> Prent Rodgers

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--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers"
<prentrodgers@...> wrote:
>
> I'm having some fun with 53 tone equal temperament. It is so easy to
> just kind of drift around, while keeping the same ratios intact.

Classic diatonic comma pumps do that for you, and it can be a fun game.
It's actually not hard to get a rather short sequence to pump
2401/2400, which is really absurd from the point of view of noticing.

Milan,
There's a picture on the web site at
http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2007/03/picture-of-dry-spring-instrument.html

I recorded snippets of the instrument with the contact microphone and
used Csound as a sample based synthesizer. Since I was already using
the finger piano, cello, and flute in Csound, I used the percussion
instrument samples as well.

Prent

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, aum <aum@...> wrote:
>
> The wood, funny things and contact microphone in Csound? I don't
> understand.
> Milan
>

I see... Percussions sound too "technological" to be real-time live recording and too complex to be efficiently done in CSound from the scratch. Now it makes sense. Thanks.
Milan

Prent Rodgers wrote:
> Milan,
> There's a picture on the web site at
> http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2007/03/picture-of-dry-spring-instrument.html
>
> I recorded snippets of the instrument with the contact microphone and
> used Csound as a sample based synthesizer. Since I was already using
> the finger piano, cello, and flute in Csound, I used the percussion
> instrument samples as well.
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