Phiter 32 Blues

Using Michael Sheiman's version 3.2 Phi based scale I tried to do a blues microtonal improvisation with some drums.

http://micro.soonlabel.com/phiter32/phiter-32blues.mp3

Hmm....
   90% of the lead actually sounds great to me.
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   But there's something about the saw-like gritty bassline sound that really really trips up the scale, even when just the bassline is playing alone it "feels" like it's in a completely different (and much more dissonant) key.
   Maybe one of the overtones of the bass reveals a flaw in the scale...
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     Dare I suggest, how about swapping between a few different bass instruments until you find one that works more cleanly (and sharing/comparing the results)?
 
   If you can record which bass instruments do/don't work and send one-shot samples of them it would be interesting (from my side) to look at them and try to deduce which overtone cause the scale problems.
 
-michael

--- On Wed, 3/18/09, vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@gmail.com> wrote:

From: vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...>
Subject: [MMM] Phiter 32 Blues
To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 7:38 PM

Using Michael Sheiman's version 3.2 Phi based scale I tried to do a blues microtonal improvisation with some drums.

http://micro. soonlabel. com/phiter32/ phiter-32blues. mp3

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ok, I can easily to that - on the agenda for tonight.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Michael Sheiman
<djtrancendance@...>wrote:

> Hmm....
> 90% of the lead actually sounds great to me.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> But there's something about the saw-like gritty bassline sound that
> really really trips up the scale, even when just the bassline is playing
> alone it "feels" like it's in a completely different (and much more
> dissonant) key.
> Maybe one of the overtones of the bass reveals a flaw in the scale...
>
> *****************************************************************************
> Dare I suggest, how about swapping between a few different bass
> instruments until you find one that works more cleanly (and
> sharing/comparing the results)?
>
> If you can record which bass instruments do/don't work and send one-shot
> samples of them it would be interesting (from my side) to look at them and
> try to deduce which overtone cause the scale problems.
>
> -michael
>
> --- On Wed, 3/18/09, vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...<chrisvaisvil%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> From: vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@... <chrisvaisvil%40gmail.com>>
> Subject: [MMM] Phiter 32 Blues
> To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com <MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 7:38 PM
>
>
> Using Michael Sheiman's version 3.2 Phi based scale I tried to do a blues
> microtonal improvisation with some drums.
>
> http://micro. soonlabel. com/phiter32/ phiter-32blues. mp3
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>

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This works really well, sounds good. I'm not as negative on the bass line timbre, but if it were a little mellower & mushier might be nicer...?

Rick

> http://micro.soonlabel.com/phiter32/phiter-32blues.mp3
>

oh how odd - this just showed up in my inbox.....

Thanks for the listen and comment.

This project got thrown into stasis because Mike has been working on new
scale variant I I got busy with other commitments. - i will make it a point
to revised the bass line eventually and post it.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Rick McGowan <rick@...> wrote:

> This works really well, sounds good. I'm not as negative on the bass
> line timbre, but if it were a little mellower & mushier might be nicer...?
>
> Rick
>
>
> > http://micro.soonlabel.com/phiter32/phiter-32blues.mp3
> >
>
>
>

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Yeah, weird... I think there was mail trouble on my end... ;-) In any case, I'll be curious to see the update eventually. Cheers,
Rick

Chris Vaisvil wrote:
> oh how odd - this just showed up in my inbox.....
>
> Thanks for the listen and comment.
>
> This project got thrown into stasis because Mike has been working on new
> scale variant I I got busy with other commitments. - i will make it a point
> to revised the bass line eventually and post it.
>