Joyous Day

Ive just put up an old/new song at the MMM website:

/makemicromusic/files/sethares/Joyous_Day.mp3

In 1991, the Just Intonation Network put out a collection
of pieces by its members. It was titled "Rational Music for an
Irrational World", and there were a number of cool pieces
that let me know I wasnt alone in my love of alternately tuned
music... My contribution to the cassette was called
'Joyous Day', and here's what I wrote about the song at the time.

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Ann and I were in the Hari Krishna restaurant in La Paz
(about the only vegetarian food you can find anywhere in
Bolivia) and a tape was playing "new age" versions
of the traditional hari krishna chant. You can probably imagine
it... hari krishna, hari hari, hari rama, krishna krishna...
interspersed with soft electric guitar solos, synthesized
bells, and arpeggiated organs. I thought it might be fun
to imitate this style, but I worried that it might be
insulting to steal the lyrics - so I made up my own
traditional chant. Maybe someday I'll get around to
making up a religion to go along with the chant.

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The music uses a just intonation created by Lou Harrison for his
'Joyous Procession', which focuses on the ratios

1/1 9/8 5/4 3/2 15/8 2/1

Enjoy!

Bill Sethares