Gertrude Stein meets Picasso in 7-tet

Hi All,

A while ago I had put Gertrude Stein's poem
"A Completed Portrait of Picasso" to music -- it
is in 7-TET, and is sung/read by the author.
Last year when I was in Paris, I took lots of
photos at the Picasso museum.
It occurred to me that it would be fun to illustrate
the song with the photos -- the result is called
"An Incomplete Portrait of Gertrude Stein," and
you can hear/see it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL9ccnZOfOk

Comments/questions/critiques are welcome...

Bill Sethares

Bill,

This really works well for me. I left a comment.

Thanks for sharing!

Chris

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Bill Sethares <sethares@...> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A while ago I had put Gertrude Stein's poem
> "A Completed Portrait of Picasso" to music -- it
> is in 7-TET, and is sung/read by the author.
> Last year when I was in Paris, I took lots of
> photos at the Picasso museum.
> It occurred to me that it would be fun to illustrate
> the song with the photos -- the result is called
> "An Incomplete Portrait of Gertrude Stein," and
> you can hear/see it:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL9ccnZOfOk
>
> Comments/questions/critiques are welcome...
>
> Bill Sethares
>
>
>

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Bill,
I love it!!!!!
7EDO is groovy!!!!

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Sethares" <sethares@...> wrote:
>
> Comments/questions/critiques are welcome...
>

Hi,
thanks for sharing. The repetitive voice (now, not now...) with el. drums reminds me something... Is it possible I heard this piece before?
I have explored 7edo deeply in the end of 80's and I like it still. I think that inharmonic timbres here hide the tuning properties. It sounds to me as a music in no tuning at all, more sonoric than harmonic/melodic. But it works, anyway. Although I don't like this kind of drums, but it is my very personal feeling.
Regards
Milan