Moonlight Gamma Serenade

Moonlight Gamma Serenade is the third piece I compose using the same mode of Carlos Gamma after Adagio Gamma and Gammalan.

http://www.seraph.it/dep/det/moonlightgammaserenade.mp3
http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/category-music.html

very very nice. has a touch of a folk quality too.

/^_,',',',_ //^ /Kraig Grady_ ^_,',',',_
Mesotonal Music from:
_'''''''_ ^North/Western Hemisphere: North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>

_'''''''_ ^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria <http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/>

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a momentary antenna as i turn to water
this evaporates - an island once again

Carlo Serafini wrote:
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> Moonlight Gamma Serenade is the third piece I compose using the same > mode of Carlos Gamma after Adagio Gamma and Gammalan.
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> http://www.seraph.it/dep/det/moonlightgammaserenade.mp3 > <http://www.seraph.it/dep/det/moonlightgammaserenade.mp3>
> http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/category-music.html > <http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/category-music.html>
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>

Carlo - this is wonderful - and inspiring!!

Thanks for sharing!

Chris

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Carlo Serafini <carlo@...> wrote:

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> Moonlight Gamma Serenade is the third piece I compose using the same mode
> of Carlos Gamma after Adagio Gamma and Gammalan.
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> http://www.seraph.it/dep/det/moonlightgammaserenade.mp3
> http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/category-music.html
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>
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thanks Kraig
yes, it came out well.
once I'll get my generalized keyboard I intend to delve more into Carlos Gamma.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
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> very very nice. has a touch of a folk quality too.

thanks Chris
I have come to the conclusion that, for me, symmetrical tuning systems are the way to go (I can always change mind later, can't I?)
About sharing: it's my pleasure!
:-)

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
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> Carlo - this is wonderful - and inspiring!!
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> Thanks for sharing!

Hi Carlo!
It is hard doing this stuff w/o one! i had some reed organs in a 31 just that later i had to go down to a 22 tone subset. It made a big difference with a fifth like a minor ninth. a fifth sounding a third and a third sounding a second. Knowing this made some perverse sense. Still i had to have two organs to get a decent range! Keep up the nice work! I bet the scale can be pushed into a more chromatic area once one can move around it easier!

/^_,',',',_ //^ /Kraig Grady_ ^_,',',',_
Mesotonal Music from:
_'''''''_ ^North/Western Hemisphere: North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>

_'''''''_ ^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria <http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/>

',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',

a momentary antenna as i turn to water
this evaporates - an island once again

Carlo Serafini wrote:
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> thanks Kraig
> yes, it came out well.
> once I'll get my generalized keyboard I intend to delve more into > Carlos Gamma.
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> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>, Kraig Grady > <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
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> > very very nice. has a touch of a folk quality too.
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Thanks again Kraig
(btw I really like your "gendhing canright" on the untwelve 2009 compilation!).
Carlos Gamma can be much more chromatic than that but at least, this piece demonstrates that non-octave tuning systems can be "easy on the ear"
:-)
Carlo

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
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> Keep up the nice work! I
> bet the scale can be pushed into a more chromatic area once one can
> move around it easier!

Another great track, Carlo, thanks! You are really using this underutilized tuning well, and I hope you do a lot more with it. This piece reminds me a bit of Angelo Badalamenti's theme music for Twin Peaks, though not as dark.

- Dave

Carlo Serafini wrote:
> Moonlight Gamma Serenade is the third piece I compose using the same mode of Carlos Gamma after Adagio Gamma and Gammalan.
> > http://www.seraph.it/dep/det/moonlightgammaserenade.mp3
> http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/category-music.html

Thanks Dave!
It is underutilized because on a "Halberstadt" keyboard it simply has "too many notes"!!!
If you look at my blog you'll see that I use a mode of Carlos Gamma with 12 out of 20 notes within the repeat ratio of one perfect fifth. that makes one fifth the size of a standard octave and that helps (once you get accustomed...)
:-)
oh yeah...expect more of it!

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Dave Seidel <dave@...> wrote:
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> Another great track, Carlo, thanks! You are really using this
> underutilized tuning well, and I hope you do a lot more with it.

Beautiful, captures the longing and ache of lydian mode. Nice string sound--between synthetic and sampled...what did you use?

BTW, I also liked the ribbonflute piece...keep 'em coming Carlo, you're one of 'le miei favoriti'...

-A.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Carlo Serafini" <carlo@...> wrote:
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> Moonlight Gamma Serenade is the third piece I compose using the same mode of Carlos Gamma after Adagio Gamma and Gammalan.
>
> http://www.seraph.it/dep/det/moonlightgammaserenade.mp3
> http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/category-music.html
>

Thanks Aaron!
that sound is a Spectrasonics Omnisphere patch
( http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/91c9f8975a11199a130e18bbc1c436ae-31.html )
:-)

Carlo

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Krister Johnson" <aaron@...> wrote:
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> Beautiful, captures the longing and ache of lydian mode. Nice string sound--between synthetic and sampled...what did you use?
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> BTW, I also liked the ribbonflute piece...keep 'em coming Carlo, you're one of 'le miei favoriti'...

This is nice. Carlos Gamma also sounds very smooth and relaxed to me; it's a tuning I should look more into.

~D.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlo Serafini" <carlo@...>
To: <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 30 June, 2009 17:52
Subject: [MMM] Moonlight Gamma Serenade

> Moonlight Gamma Serenade is the third piece I compose using the same > mode of Carlos Gamma after Adagio Gamma and Gammalan.
>
> http://www.seraph.it/dep/det/moonlightgammaserenade.mp3
> http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/category-music.html
>

Thanks Danny!
btw I really like your Waterloo Rag on the untwelve 2009 compilation
:-)

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Danny Wier" <dawiertx@...> wrote:
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> This is nice. Carlos Gamma also sounds very smooth and relaxed to me;
> it's a tuning I should look more into.