Blect

Hi Joseph!

I listened to Blect already at weekend but since nobody had said
nothing about it in the lists I thought it had been there for a
while!

This is really one of my favourites in your repertoire. Although it
has that recognizable sound of yours (much to do with those FM-
timbres!) it is at the same time somehow different.

Kalle

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "kalleaho" <kalleaho@m...> wrote:

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> Hi Joseph!
>
> I listened to Blect already at weekend but since nobody had said
> nothing about it in the lists I thought it had been there for a
> while!
>
> This is really one of my favourites in your repertoire. Although it
> has that recognizable sound of yours (much to do with those FM-
> timbres!) it is at the same time somehow different.
>
> Kalle

****Hi Kalle!

Well, truly I don't know if I always want to be identified with those
FM sounds! But so be it. Hopefully, a *live* trombonist will add
something to the mix.

Thanks for listening!

JP

Hi Joseph,

I liked this! One feels you are at home in the idiom of this tuning,
and I like the chromaticism.

If you think about it, 12-tet is a near just tuning in origins too,
so I think chromaticism in such a tuning isn't at all out of place.

I like the very harsh discord immediately going to a very mellow
passage just before 4 mins into the piece.

Also a very nice mysterious chord at 6.00 with that kind of diminished
seventh type unrooted quality, and the scale passages running up and
down at 7.00 onwards.

Perhaps this music gives us an idea of what 12-tet would sound like
if one were to encounter it new for a first time? I mean with the
coherence and complex language and so forth, together with
novel harmonies - new for us because it must be one of the earliest
pieces written in this scale!

Congratulations!

Robert

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "Robert Walker" <robertwalker@n...> wrote:

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> Hi Joseph,
>
> I liked this! One feels you are at home in the idiom of this tuning,
> and I like the chromaticism.
>
> If you think about it, 12-tet is a near just tuning in origins too,
> so I think chromaticism in such a tuning isn't at all out of place.
>
> I like the very harsh discord immediately going to a very mellow
> passage just before 4 mins into the piece.
>
> Also a very nice mysterious chord at 6.00 with that kind of
diminished seventh type unrooted quality, and the scale passages
running up and down at 7.00 onwards.
>

****Thanks so much, Robert, for your nice comments. Both the chords
you mention above were variants of the more "dissonant" Blackjack
chords that I was discussing with Paul Erlich and Dave Keenan. I
don't have my notes right here, but I believe they go pretty much up
to ratios of 11...

best,

Joseph