Re: Recent Tunes

Hi Jacky,

Robert Walker: "7lim_octony_lullaby.mp3"

Beautiful string sounds! Nice composition/tuning.

Thanks!

Robert Walker: "twilight_bells.mp3"

Beautiful bell sounds! Really love the quality of the tuning mood and
timbres on this one. Doing some good work with Giga there Robert.

Great, thanks!

Robert

Hi Mark,

> > Robert Walker: "7lim_octony_lullaby.mp3"
> >
> > Beautiful string sounds! Nice composition/tuning.
> >

> I really need to do some 7th limit stuff and higher. Every time I mess
> around with it I seem to make sense. I just never do anything with it.
> It's good to hear assemblage in higher limit constructs.

What are you waiting for!!

> > Beautiful bell sounds! Really love the quality of the tuning mood and
> > timbres on this one. Doing some good work with Giga there Robert.
> >

> This I'll just ditto. Something about just sitting around listening to
> bells ring... I don't know, I'm having sort of a new thought here.
> Listening to bells ring seems to be pleasant enough that when I hear bells I
> don't sit around and analyze the musical content. They're just bells.
> So... With all great effort trying to conform to so many different musical
> principles, (with something like bells,) on one end of the spectrum, and
> then just bing bong clang bells in the air on the other side of the
> spectrum... Starting to wonder what can be found in between. Recognizable
> music drifting in and out of strange sounds, eventually making the strange
> sounds recognizable.

That's nice. Yes, and I think the scale has a lot to do with making the Rhodes
piano sound like bells. Dan posted the scale to the main list and when I tried
it out, it sounded like bells; I think that was with just a harp voice or
something. Even with the ocarina timbre, it suggests bells.

With this one I did a bit of work on the timbre to try and bring
that aspect out a bit more, that's all. Why this scale should have such
an effect is anyone's guess?? I think Dan had other things in mind
- I'd be interested to hear more about the origins of the scale.

It's 1/1 8/7 9/7 7/5 32/21 12/7 27/14 2/1

- all the notes are in seven limit ratios
to the 1/1.

Robert

On 2/26/02 9:30 AM, "Robert Walker" <robertwalker@...> wrote:

>> I really need to do some 7th limit stuff and higher. Every time I mess
>> around with it I seem to make sense. I just never do anything with it.
>> It's good to hear assemblage in higher limit constructs.
>
> What are you waiting for!!

Got so much stuff going on it's hard to always be omnidirectional.

Plus it's taken me a lot of work to feel like I'm allowed to write
something. I don't necessarily quit at plateaus but I do have a tendency to
freeze.

So yeah. The logical EXPANSION of things doesn't always occur to me. For
that matter, the closest I've come to writing in 7th limit extensively is
writing mostly 5th limit things in 7th limit convergences with only subtle
traces of 7-ness. I forget what I called that...

Marc

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "jacky_ligon" <jacky_ligon@y...> wrote:

> Certainly the "Guitars on Table" music would have to qualify as
some
> of the most highly "microtonal-sounding" music I'd heard back then,
> whether in deliberate tunings or not.
>
> How 'bout:
>
> Henry Cow?
> Naked City?

neither of these ever stuck me as particularly microtonal, though i
like them a lot!