Re: [MMM] alexander the Great

Wow!

-Carl

At 10:23 PM 5/22/2007, you wrote:
>For anyone who might be interested, I've been working on a song with my
>13-year-old son Bryan (our first, surprisingly) for a school assignment
>on Alexander the Great--here's a demo :
>
>http://zebox.com/danstearns_3/
>
>bryan stearns--voice, words, fretless piccolo bass, Bb clarinet,
>keyboard
>dan stearns--sound, editing and production work

I'll say! He seems like a very precocious kid...well beyond most 13 year olds in terms of mature imagination and sense of self, i.e. he's not afraid to be out there.

Thanks for sharing that! Cool production, too.

-A.

Carl Lumma wrote:
> Wow!
>
> -Carl
>
> At 10:23 PM 5/22/2007, you wrote:
> >> For anyone who might be interested, I've been working on a song with my >> 13-year-old son Bryan (our first, surprisingly) for a school assignment >> on Alexander the Great--here's a demo :
>>
>> http://zebox.com/danstearns_3/
>>
>> bryan stearns--voice, words, fretless piccolo bass, Bb clarinet, >> keyboard
>> dan stearns--sound, editing and production work
>> >
>

Thank you for sharing this. I am especially impressed with how good
the 13 tone uke sounds. I have been thinking about making a little
guitar or uke in 26 edo that could also be used for 13 edo. This
gives me some incentive to proceed.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns"
<daniel_anthony_stearns@...> wrote:
>
> for anyone who might be interested ,I've uploaded two little
outtakes
> from this tune that we didn't use. No1 is a short bit on Chris
> Shaffer's 13-tone tenor ukulele (the one pictured at the zebox
site),
> and No 2 is keyboard. They're both improvisation, the second kind
of
> being what i thought was an interesting bit on the Lord of the
Ring's
> theme that modulates in an almost Ivsian, Americana kind of way,
and
> the first oone is a fast kind of ethnicy dance thingy on the uke
that
> gives you an idea of the kind of chops he has already (he just
turned
> 13 a few weeks ago) and that 13-tone equal temperament is not the
> work of the devil or the enemy of all sensitive ears...
>
> http://zebox.com/danstearns_3/music/