A shortie (and possible 60x60 entry): "The Calliope Crashed to the Ground"

MMMers,

First of all, good show to Oz and Carlo! I'm not posting much to either MMM or Tuning lately; I'm not very active anywhere in December...

I wrote this in a few hours yesterday. I still want to come up with something better for the compilation, but <a href="http://dannywier.ucoz.com/calliope.mp3">here's what I got anyway</a>. The title is indeed taken from a certain Manfred Mann song and features an "out of tune" synth organ.

This time, I used the GeneralUser soundfont, which, despite its smaller size (about 30 MB--Fluid R3 is 140 MB), is the best symphonic SF2 I've heard yet. It uses two scales in 72-edo. The organ is tuned to {0 9 18 32 41 50 59 73}, a "pelog" scale with a 41-morion generator and a 73-morion period. The timpani is {0 18 36 44 62 70}, or a 11-morion generator and 35-morion fifth.

Otherwise, the tune is basically something I've had stuck in my head since I was a kid, a sort of "children's march", twisted into a horror theme, I guess.

~D.

A fabulously bizzare circus tune! Excellent work Danny! Who can
possibly top that?

Oz.

✩ ✩ ✩
www.ozanyarman.com

On Dec 18, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Danny Wier wrote:

> MMMers,
>
> First of all, good show to Oz and Carlo! I'm not posting much to
> either MMM or Tuning lately; I'm not very active anywhere in
> December...
>
> I wrote this in a few hours yesterday. I still want to come up with
> something better for the compilation, but <a href="http://dannywier.ucoz.com/calliope.mp3
> ">here's what I got anyway</a>. The title is indeed taken from a
> certain Manfred Mann song and features an "out of tune" synth organ.
>
> This time, I used the GeneralUser soundfont, which, despite its
> smaller size (about 30 MB--Fluid R3 is 140 MB), is the best
> symphonic SF2 I've heard yet. It uses two scales in 72-edo. The
> organ is tuned to {0 9 18 32 41 50 59 73}, a "pelog" scale with a 41-
> morion generator and a 73-morion period. The timpani is {0 18 36 44
> 62 70}, or a 11-morion generator and 35-morion fifth.
>
> Otherwise, the tune is basically something I've had stuck in my head
> since I was a kid, a sort of "children's march", twisted into a
> horror theme, I guess.
>
> ~D.
>

Thanks Danny!
I love your "Calliope".
It is almost as good as your "Waterloo rag"
:-)

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> wrote:
...
> First of all, good show to Oz and Carlo! I'm not posting much to either MMM or Tuning lately; I'm not very active anywhere in December...
>
...http://dannywier.ucoz.com/calliope.mp3">

DURR, the second scale has a 44-morion fifth and a 70-morion octave. I was going to type "11/18-octave" and "70/72-octave" and failed to correct the numbers.

Also, /morion/, plural /moria/, is the term used in Byzantine theory, and I've decided to use it for 1/72 of an octave instead of "comma" (which I'd rather use for 53-edo).

~D.

--- On Fri, 12/18/09, Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> wrote:
This time, I used the GeneralUser soundfont, which, despite its smaller size (about 30 MB--Fluid R3 is 140 MB), is the best symphonic SF2 I've heard yet. It uses two scales in 72-edo. The organ is tuned to {0 9 18 32 41 50 59 73}, a "pelog" scale with a 41-morion generator and a 73-morion period. The timpani is {0 18 36 44 62 70}, or a 11-morion generator and 35-morion fifth.

Thanks to you and Carlo both for the positive vibes.

I've always had a thing for horror-movie music; I do want to do for music what Stephen King has done for novels, and I was going to call this piece "Gacy's Thanksgiving Parade" or "March of the Zombie Children" or something. I also had coulrophobia growing up, at least concerning this painting of one hideous clown I had in my room. Of course, the "evil clown" is a stock character in so many movies, comic books and video games.

Guess I need to write a "Joker suite" (in reference to Batman's arch enemy) or something now.

~D.

--- On Fri, 12/18/09, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...> wrote:

A fabulously bizzare circus tune! Excellent work Danny! Who can
possibly top that?

Oz.

✩ ✩ ✩
www.ozanyarman. com

On Dec 18, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Danny Wier wrote:

> MMMers,
>
> First of all, good show to Oz and Carlo! I'm not posting much to
> either MMM or Tuning lately; I'm not very active anywhere in
> December...
>
> I wrote this in a few hours yesterday. I still want to come up with
> something better for the compilation, but <a href="http://dannywier. coz.com/ calliope. mp3
> ">here's what I got anyway</a>. The title is indeed taken from a
> certain Manfred Mann song and features an "out of tune" synth organ.
>
> This time, I used the GeneralUser soundfont, which, despite its
> smaller size (about 30 MB--Fluid R3 is 140 MB), is the best
> symphonic SF2 I've heard yet. It uses two scales in 72-edo. The
> organ is tuned to {0 9 18 32 41 50 59 73}, a "pelog" scale with a 41-
> morion generator and a 73-morion period. The timpani is {0 18 36 44
> 62 70}, or a 11-morion generator and 35-morion fifth.
>
> Otherwise, the tune is basically something I've had stuck in my head
> since I was a kid, a sort of "children's march", twisted into a
> horror theme, I guess.
>
> ~D.