A couple of new biscuits (one unfinished)

MMMers,

A few days late, but happy new year! I'm redoing my sound files, and now have a couple of new additions to my homepage:

http://dannywier.ucoz.com/index/music/0-2

They're part of my symphony/soundtrack project tentatively titled DIES IRÆ (one of the many leitmotifs is the medieval hymn of the same name). The last two "movements" in the first section are titled "An American in Istanbul" and the incomplete "The Devil Sleeps Tonight". Both use 72edo.

"Istanbul" is for a scene that takes place in Turkey's largest city, and is also a reference to the use of both Eastern and Western musical ideas, including a few maqams and usuls. Two melodies you might recognize: Mozart's "Rondo alla turca", arguably the most famous ersatz-Middle Eastern work by a Westerner, and a traditional tune called "Al 3ein mulayatein" in Arabic and "Şaşkın" in Turkish, popular with belly dancers and associated with the Levantine line dance called the dabke. (Incidentally, "Istanbul" is my code name for the 41-tone subset of 72 with 31 note names, based on Miracle tuning; the 19-name 53-tone kleismic set is nicknamed "New Orleans".)

"Devil" is something I just started; right now, it's just a series of chords in slow and low strings. This is a foreboding theme of the main villain of the story--think Cthulhu or Lavos napping.

I'm using S. Christian Collins' GeneralUser GS soundfont more now, except when I need the rock and "ethnic" instruments from the Roland EXR-40 OR. And I'm doing all writing and recording on an Asus EeePC netbook runing Ubuntu Linux now. (The choppiness of the strings and early cutoff of the triangle seem to be a problem with Timidity++, so I need to figure out what to do about that.)

I've also decided to write a CD-length single-track album this year and maybe sell it DIY. It would be a mix of progressive rock and progressive trance/house. And of course I'd be using 72-equal, and I'd like the song to be 72 minutes long, in honor of the tuning.

~D.

Hey Danny,

After you said one of your tunes was like Lavos napping, I had to have a listen. :) Very unnerving stuff, and I love some of the progressions in the chords.

Also, your idea about an album of 72-tet progressive rock and trance? VERY RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS. I hope you go through with a project like that because it sounds so interesting! If you do, you MUST give me a nudge when it's ready. ;) I'll be wanting a copy of that.

Microtonally,

Sean

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> wrote:
>
> MMMers,
>
> A few days late, but happy new year! I'm redoing my sound files, and now have a couple of new additions to my homepage:
>
> http://dannywier.ucoz.com/index/music/0-2
>
> They're part of my symphony/soundtrack project tentatively titled DIES IRÆ (one of the many leitmotifs is the medieval hymn of the same name). The last two "movements" in the first section are titled "An American in Istanbul" and the incomplete "The Devil Sleeps Tonight". Both use 72edo.
>
> "Istanbul" is for a scene that takes place in Turkey's largest city, and is also a reference to the use of both Eastern and Western musical ideas, including a few maqams and usuls. Two melodies you might recognize: Mozart's "Rondo alla turca", arguably the most famous ersatz-Middle Eastern work by a Westerner, and a traditional tune called "Al 3ein mulayatein" in Arabic and "Şaşkın" in Turkish, popular with belly dancers and associated with the Levantine line dance called the dabke. (Incidentally, "Istanbul" is my code name for the 41-tone subset of 72 with 31 note names, based on Miracle tuning; the 19-name 53-tone kleismic set is nicknamed "New Orleans".)
>
> "Devil" is something I just started; right now, it's just a series of chords in slow and low strings. This is a foreboding theme of the main villain of the story--think Cthulhu or Lavos napping.
>
> I'm using S. Christian Collins' GeneralUser GS soundfont more now, except when I need the rock and "ethnic" instruments from the Roland EXR-40 OR. And I'm doing all writing and recording on an Asus EeePC netbook runing Ubuntu Linux now. (The choppiness of the strings and early cutoff of the triangle seem to be a problem with Timidity++, so I need to figure out what to do about that.)
>
> I've also decided to write a CD-length single-track album this year and maybe sell it DIY. It would be a mix of progressive rock and progressive trance/house. And of course I'd be using 72-equal, and I'd like the song to be 72 minutes long, in honor of the tuning.
>
> ~D.
>