Tiffany Lin plays Kraig Grady in Seattle Friday night 3/13

http://www.avantmusicnews.com/2009/03/11/tiffany-lin-piano-racket-in-seattle/

From WAYWARD MUSIC on March 13.

8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale donation at the door.

Seattle pianist and toy pianist Tiffany Lin performs Piano Racket: Music for the Unconventional Piano, a concert featuring solo music for prepared piano, string piano, retuned piano, and toy pianos. The program features a double world premiere of music especially written for this event by composers Byron Au Yong and Kraig Grady. Flirt, Au Yong's portable interludes for toy pianos and ping pong balls, finds love in the little things of life with lip smacks, whistles, pops, swoops, yelps, and woofs. Grady's first piece written for the piano in 35 years of composing, Corroded Communes, explores the retuned piano based on a specific tuning developed by musician George Secor.

In the Chapel Performance Space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd Center 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA (SW corner of 50th & Sunnyside in Wallingford); 206-789-1939

More here: http://waywardmusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/tiffany-lin-piano-racket.html

Prent Rodgers

BTW Prent, I received my Michael Harrison CDs, they are quite good.

Thank you so much for pointing out this excellent composer.

Chris

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Prent Rodgers <prentrodgers@...>wrote:

>
> http://www.avantmusicnews.com/2009/03/11/tiffany-lin-piano-racket-in-seattle/
>
> From WAYWARD MUSIC on March 13.
>
> 8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale donation at the door.
>
> Seattle pianist and toy pianist Tiffany Lin performs Piano Racket: Music
> for the Unconventional Piano, a concert featuring solo music for prepared
> piano, string piano, retuned piano, and toy pianos. The program features a
> double world premiere of music especially written for this event by
> composers Byron Au Yong and Kraig Grady. Flirt, Au Yong's portable
> interludes for toy pianos and ping pong balls, finds love in the little
> things of life with lip smacks, whistles, pops, swoops, yelps, and woofs.
> Grady's first piece written for the piano in 35 years of composing, Corroded
> Communes, explores the retuned piano based on a specific tuning developed by
> musician George Secor.
>
> In the Chapel Performance Space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd
> Center 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA (SW corner of 50th & Sunnyside in
> Wallingford); 206-789-1939
>
> More here:
> http://waywardmusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/tiffany-lin-piano-racket.html
>
> Prent Rodgers
>
>
>

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Umm, in which Secor tuning did Kyle Grady compose this new piano piece?

Always curious!
==
Manu

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers" <prentrodgers@...> wrote:
>
> http://www.avantmusicnews.com/2009/03/11/tiffany-lin-piano-racket-in-seattle/
>
> From WAYWARD MUSIC on March 13.
>
> 8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale donation at the door.
>
> Seattle pianist and toy pianist Tiffany Lin performs Piano Racket: Music for the Unconventional Piano, a concert featuring solo music for prepared piano, string piano, retuned piano, and toy pianos. The program features a double world premiere of music especially written for this event by composers Byron Au Yong and Kraig Grady. Flirt, Au Yong's portable interludes for toy pianos and ping pong balls, finds love in the little things of life with lip smacks, whistles, pops, swoops, yelps, and woofs. Grady's first piece written for the piano in 35 years of composing, Corroded Communes, explores the retuned piano based on a specific tuning developed by musician George Secor.
>
> In the Chapel Performance Space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd Center 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA (SW corner of 50th & Sunnyside in Wallingford); 206-789-1939
>
> More here: http://waywardmusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/tiffany-lin-piano-racket.html
>
> Prent Rodgers
>

See
http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/2009/03/premiere-of-corroded-communes-solo.html

On 3/15/09, manuphonic <manuphonic@...> wrote:
>
> Umm, in which Secor tuning did Kyle Grady compose this new piano piece?
>
> Always curious!
> ==
> Manu
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com <MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Prent Rodgers" <prentrodgers@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> http://www.avantmusicnews.com/2009/03/11/tiffany-lin-piano-racket-in-seattle/
> >
> > From WAYWARD MUSIC on March 13.
> >
> > 8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale donation at the door.
> >
> > Seattle pianist and toy pianist Tiffany Lin performs Piano Racket: Music
> for the Unconventional Piano, a concert featuring solo music for prepared
> piano, string piano, retuned piano, and toy pianos. The program features a
> double world premiere of music especially written for this event by
> composers Byron Au Yong and Kraig Grady. Flirt, Au Yong's portable
> interludes for toy pianos and ping pong balls, finds love in the little
> things of life with lip smacks, whistles, pops, swoops, yelps, and woofs.
> Grady's first piece written for the piano in 35 years of composing, Corroded
> Communes, explores the retuned piano based on a specific tuning developed by
> musician George Secor.
> >
> > In the Chapel Performance Space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd
> Center 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA (SW corner of 50th & Sunnyside in
> Wallingford); 206-789-1939
> >
> > More here:
> http://waywardmusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/tiffany-lin-piano-racket.html
> >
> > Prent Rodgers
> >
>
>
>

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Manuel, your question requires a better explanation than a list of numbers.

The tuning in question is defined with rational ratios, and I call it my "5/23-comma temperament extraordinaire". All 24 major & minor triads are proportional-beating. For the exact ratios see:
/tuning/topicId_75816.html#76100

It has a higher key contrast than any well-temperament, yet has no heavily tempered fifths, so it's very suitable for the performance of renaissance and most Baroque music. (No triad in the E-flat to G-sharp gamut is significantly more dissonant than 12-ET, and most are significantly more consonant.) Although the triads in the remote keys are significantly more dissonant than 12-ET, they're very effective for medieval (and neo-medieval) music, where 3rds and 6ths are treated as imperfect consonances that resolve to octaves, 5ths, and 4ths -- and they do so even more effectively than in the Pythagorean tuning. (I'll admit that they're a bit shocking at first, but it doesn't take long to get accustomed to them.) An interesting effect occurs in the keys of E minor and B minor, where a highly dissonant dominant triads convincingly resolve to a highly consonant tonic triads.

For the above reasons, it's my number-one all-time favorite 12-tone circulating temperament.

That said, I should note that Kraig used my tuning for a somewhat different purpose from what I had in mind. He sent me a sound file (electronically produced, prior to the live performance), about which I commented:

<< I noticed that the differences between my tuning and 12-equal become more apparent as the piece progresses. Beginning around 8:10 there are chords that I would normally consider dissonant. When I listen closely, I find that their individual notes seem to merge into complex sound-objects that "shimmer", as if they were reflected in water gently disturbed by the wind. >>

--George

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Terumi Narushima <terumi.narushima@...> wrote:
>
> See
> http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/2009/03/premiere-of-corroded-communes-solo.html
>
> On 3/15/09, manuphonic <manuphonic@...> wrote:
> >
> > Umm, in which Secor tuning did Kyle Grady compose this new piano piece?
> >
> > Always curious!
> > ==
> > Manu
> >
> > --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com <MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "Prent Rodgers" <prentrodgers@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.avantmusicnews.com/2009/03/11/tiffany-lin-piano-racket-in-seattle/
> > >
> > > From WAYWARD MUSIC on March 13.
> > >
> > > 8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale donation at the door.
> > >
> > > Seattle pianist and toy pianist Tiffany Lin performs Piano Racket: Music
> > for the Unconventional Piano, a concert featuring solo music for prepared
> > piano, string piano, retuned piano, and toy pianos. The program features a
> > double world premiere of music especially written for this event by
> > composers Byron Au Yong and Kraig Grady. Flirt, Au Yong's portable
> > interludes for toy pianos and ping pong balls, finds love in the little
> > things of life with lip smacks, whistles, pops, swoops, yelps, and woofs.
> > Grady's first piece written for the piano in 35 years of composing, Corroded
> > Communes, explores the retuned piano based on a specific tuning developed by
> > musician George Secor.
> > >
> > > In the Chapel Performance Space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd
> > Center 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA (SW corner of 50th & Sunnyside in
> > Wallingford); 206-789-1939
> > >
> > > More here:
> > http://waywardmusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/tiffany-lin-piano-racket.html
> > >
> > > Prent Rodgers