Csound challenge - Floating the Lower Hoh

I like a good challenge, and Tobiah on the Csound mailing list posted one recently. It's a very simple Csound orchestra using only a sine wave as source. The challenge is to write a piece manipulating the score, not the orchestra. I modified my Turbo Pascal based preprocessor to generate one, and posted the results on my blog. It's available to listen here: http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/floating-lower-hoh-take-5.html

or download here: http://ripnread.com/listen/tobiah5.mp3

It's in 53-EDO based on the utonality, with a bridge in the otonality, vi-I-IV-V.

Prent Rodgers

Great, Prent! Very cool how -- despite the limitations imposed by the challenge -- your style and character comes through as clearly as any of your other works. It's funny, the sine-based timbres sound kind of "old fashioned" to me (as in the earlier era of electronic music). I was even reminded a bit of Raymond Scott!

- Dave

Prent Rodgers wrote:
> I like a good challenge, and Tobiah on the Csound mailing list posted one recently. It's a very simple Csound orchestra using only a sine wave as source. The challenge is to write a piece manipulating the score, not the orchestra. I modified my Turbo Pascal based preprocessor to generate one, and posted the results on my blog. It's available to listen here: http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/floating-lower-hoh-take-5.html
> > or download here: http://ripnread.com/listen/tobiah5.mp3
> > It's in 53-EDO based on the utonality, with a bridge in the otonality, vi-I-IV-V. > > Prent Rodgers

I listened Scott's Soothing Sounds for Baby and Maxfield's Sine Music few days ago while working on my lecture on early electronic musical instruments and this piece has a similar atmosphere. Nice.
Thanks Prent.
Milan