Two Gr-20 Improvisations

A couple of semi-improvisations in two (new to me) tunings - that is I found some chords and then improvised around them. The technique uses Fractal Tune Simthy as a relay tuner to my Roland GR-20.

The first uses Gene Ward Smith's
1/4-comma meantone with a period of 5^(1/4) and a tone generator - over a period of 5 octaves I believe - this is supposed to be a non-octave tuning. Gene is a nice guy and put it together for me - thanks Gene!! I had some issues with the Fractal Tune Smithy relay - so only the top 4 strings could be used for this piece. :-/

Title: A Quart of Genes

http://www.notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=222

The second uses Carl Lumma's 10 out of 13-tET MOS, TL 21-12-1999 => Actually done earlier and the relay + Gr-20 were acting nicer.

You will hear a bit of similarity in the motives of the two improvisations - a danger of improvising is getting in a rut and I sort of do here.

Title: 10 Lummas for the Price of 13

http://www.notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=221

10 Lummas for the price of 13?! So we're getting ripped off, then >:|

-Mike

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:57 PM, christopherv <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
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>
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> A couple of semi-improvisations in two (new to me) tunings - that is I found some chords and then improvised around them. The technique uses Fractal Tune Simthy as a relay tuner to my Roland GR-20.
>
> The first uses Gene Ward Smith's
> 1/4-comma meantone with a period of 5^(1/4) and a tone generator - over a period of 5 octaves I believe - this is supposed to be a non-octave tuning. Gene is a nice guy and put it together for me - thanks Gene!! I had some issues with the Fractal Tune Smithy relay - so only the top 4 strings could be used for this piece. :-/
>
> Title: A Quart of Genes
>
> http://www.notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=222
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> The second uses Carl Lumma's 10 out of 13-tET MOS, TL 21-12-1999 => Actually done earlier and the relay + Gr-20 were acting nicer.
>
> You will hear a bit of similarity in the motives of the two improvisations - a danger of improvising is getting in a rut and I sort of do here.
>
> Title: 10 Lummas for the Price of 13
>
> http://www.notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=221

Carl drives a hard bargain !
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 21:05:05
To: <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [MMM] Two Gr-20 Improvisations

10 Lummas for the price of 13?! So we're getting ripped off, then >:|

-Mike

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:57 PM, christopherv <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> A couple of semi-improvisations in two (new to me) tunings - that is I found some chords and then improvised around them. The technique uses Fractal Tune Simthy as a relay tuner to my Roland GR-20.
>
> The first uses Gene Ward Smith's
> 1/4-comma meantone with a period of 5^(1/4) and a tone generator - over a period of 5 octaves I believe - this is supposed to be a non-octave tuning. Gene is a nice guy and put it together for me - thanks Gene!! I had some issues with the Fractal Tune Smithy relay - so only the top 4 strings could be used for this piece. :-/
>
> Title: A Quart of Genes
>
> http://www.notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=222
>
> The second uses Carl Lumma's 10 out of 13-tET MOS, TL 21-12-1999 => Actually done earlier and the relay + Gr-20 were acting nicer.
>
> You will hear a bit of similarity in the motives of the two improvisations - a danger of improvising is getting in a rut and I sort of do here.
>
> Title: 10 Lummas for the Price of 13
>
> http://www.notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=221

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http://www.last.fm/music/Syzygys

Don't know how they manage it...but this group from Japan not only makes 43-tone based pop music, but manages to make it sound confident and catchy. It's not at all the type of unsure sounding work (often with conflicting types of dissonance combinations) you may often hear in micro-tonal pop attempts.

I highly recommend their song Dohyo...which you can hear a sample of on last.fm http://www.last.fm/music/Syzygys. It's part orchestral, part trip-hop beat...and very melodic, steady, and instantly catchy in mood yet with all sorts of the cool underlying complexities you'd expect from (particularly non-pop) micro-tonal music. Highly recommended!

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well...you'll find some answers here:
http://www.nonoctave.com/forum/messages/7902.html
:-)

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Michael <djtrancendance@...> wrote:
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> http://www.last.fm/music/Syzygys
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> Don't know how they manage it...

I know Hitomi Shimizi san and visited her studio in Kyoto, as I live two hours from there and I was introduced to her by our common friend, Ondes Martenot performer (I do concerts with). She is nice person, and she has H-Pi Tonal Plexus keyboard. As far as I know they don't continue under this name.... Maybe we will do some out od tune music together if there's some opportunity. But IMHO there's no market, no interest in microtonal music in Japan. There are enough out of tune notes from koto, shakuhachi and Theremin performers here :-)

Daniel Forro

On 16 May 2010, at 1:42 PM, Michael wrote:

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> http://www.last.fm/music/Syzygys
>
> Don't know how they manage it...but this group from Japan not only > makes 43-tone based pop music, but manages to make it sound > confident and catchy. It's not at all the type of unsure sounding > work (often with conflicting types of dissonance combinations) you > may often hear in micro-tonal pop attempts.
>
> I highly recommend their song Dohyo...which you can hear a sample > of on last.fm http://www.last.fm/music/Syzygys. It's part > orchestral, part trip-hop beat...and very melodic, steady, and > instantly catchy in mood yet with all sorts of the cool underlying > complexities you'd expect from (particularly non-pop) micro-tonal > music. Highly recommended!
>