Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup makemicromusic Expanded "Dekany: 8 through 12" to be performed at Slippery Rock U.

Here's some follow-up regarding the UnTwelve 60x60 mix performed at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania on 7 Oct.

On Sunday, 18 Oct I received an email from Nola Nolen Holland of the Department of Dance, SRU, portions of which I quote here:

<< Dear Mr. Secor:

For SRU's 60 x 60 Concert that was produced by our dance musician Andy Hasenpflug, I was assigned your music to choreograph. ... The feedback I received about the one minute work was exceptional. My dance department colleagues encouraged me to continue to develop the work. That is why I am writing to you. I would like to triple the length of the dance for our upcoming faculty concert; and, I am wondering if there is more to this piece than the one minute. If you would be willing to share more music, please let me know. I would be willing to send you a video of the dance to your music if you'd like.

Best regards,

Nola Nolen Holland, M.F.A.
President-elect, CORPS de Ballet International, Inc.
Co-director, The Dance in India Initiative
Department of Dance
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania >>

I am happy to report that, because my composition, Dekany: 8 Through12, was basically computer-generated, it took only a few more emails and half an evening's work to produce an expanded (4'30") version of my original 60-second piece in time for the Thursday (21 Oct) rehearsal, which, according to a subsequent email I received, was reported to be a "smashing success ... absolutely perfect in timing and content. ... In these days of copyright, royalties, and legalities, your willingness to expand your work via long distance communication has been exceedingly refreshing. Thank you." Hopefully, the SLU Dance Department may be open to working with other MMM members who would like to collaborate on future projects, so, on behalf of our group, I intend to make a suggestion to that effect in my next reply.

My piece will be performed in the SRU Faculty and Guest Artist Dance Concert on Tuesday, 26 Oct at 8 p.m. Slippery Rock is located north of Pittsburgh, PA and east of Youngstown, OH. In case anyone in that area wishes to attend, further information is at:
http://www.sru.edu/academics/colleges/chfpa/dance/Pages/events.aspx
Since this is a world premiere, I will not be giving a link to (and further details regarding) the expanded version of my piece until after the performance.

Some of you will recall that Andy Hasenpflug collaborated with Aaron Krister Johnson to create the Divide by Pi albums. He is presently musician/accompanist for the Dance Department at Slippery Rock, and I understand that he is also trying to get a video of the UnTwelve 60x60 dance mix performed at Slippery Rock on 7 Oct to make available to our MMM group.

--George

🔗Carl Lumma <carl@...>

🔗gdsecor <gdsecor@...>

I posted the following message last week regarding an opportunity that developed in connection with the piece that I submitted for the UnTwelve 60x60 mix, which accompanied a performance by the Department of Dance at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania on 7 Oct:
/makemicromusic/topicId_23447.html#23447

I will now tell you, as news commentator Paul Harvey famously put it, "the rest of the story."

When Aaron Krister Johnson announced that UnTwelve was seeking contributions for a special microtonal 60x60 mix, I feared that, inasmuch as last year's UnTwelve composition competition didn't receive nearly as many entries as expected, he might come up short of the required 60 submissions. So I felt obligated to contribute something, even though I was severely strapped for time.

Therefore, my contribution was something "quick & dirty" that I put together rather quickly by modifying the "Tumbling Dekany" spreadsheet that Dave Keenan and Andy Fillebrown:
http://www.dkeenan.com/Music/StereoDekany.htm
So my contribution was essentially a collaborative work, in which I was basically both interpreter and performer, establishing a particular mood by choosing a new set of harmonic tones (8,9,10,11,12-dekany), a different timbre, and variations in tempo to produce an alternative realization of the original "Tumbling Dekany" 60 seconds long:
http://xenharmony.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Dekany_8-12.mp3

Here are the program notes:

<< _Dekany: 8 Through 12_ is one of many possible microtonal realizations derived from a scale-creation algorithm of Erv Wilson, utilized in a computer program written by Dave Keenan and Andy Fillebrown. The factors that generate this particular 10-tone just intonation scale, an 8·9·10·11·12 dekany combination product set, were chosen by George Secor in order to achieve a polyphonic texture in which the individual voices combine to produce melodic lines characterized by a descending-stepwise pattern and "otherworldly" harmonies resulting from the presence of the 11 factor. >>

As it turned out, there were so many entries for the 60x60 UnTwelve mix that I didn't expect that this one would make the cut, so I was even more surprised that, without any sort of meter or rhythmic pulse in the music, Nola Nolen's choreography was so successful that she asked if I could supply a longer version of the piece. As she described it, "I took a Merce Cunningham approach to putting the dance and music together. In other words, rather than choreograph to your music, I created the dance independently without setting movements to the music, without analyzing the structure of the music, and without setting or seeking landmarks within it. The dance and music simply proceded from their simultaneous and individual beginnings. ... Your music created a mystique for the piece. Since there was no set design, the music created the atmosphere for the dance as well as provided a soundscape to which the dancers moved. ... Just to let you know briefly about my choreographic process, I created the movement independently of the music so that I would not be influenced by the music's stucture, sound, or ambiance. I was going for a sculptural effect of the two dancers' bodies - no emotion, no story - just the bodies in the space. I entitled the work 'Calder' after the 20th century sculptor. That's the only reference for the movement."

Here's the expanded (4'30") version that I made for the 26 October performance (in 2 different file formats):
http://xenharmony.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Dekany_8-12A.mp3
http://xenharmony.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Dekany_8-12A.ogg

I haven't seen or heard anything yet about videos of either performance, other than that they do exist, but I'll keep you posted.

--George

🔗Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...>

That is exceptionally beautiful George!

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_'''''''_^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
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On 2/11/10 1:21 PM, gdsecor wrote:
>
>
> Here's the expanded (4'30") version that I made for the 26 > October performance (in 2 different file formats):
> http://xenharmony.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Dekany_8-12A.mp3
> http://xenharmony.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Dekany_8-12A.ogg
>
> I haven't seen or heard anything yet about videos of either > performance, other than that they do exist, but I'll keep you > posted.
>
> --George
>
>

🔗chrisvaisvil@...

I didn't get to listen until now. I like it as well. Is this tuning perhaps related BP? It has some chords that remind me of Elaine's work.

Chris
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@anaphoria.com>
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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:07:38
To: <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com>
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Subject: Re: [MMM] Re: Expanded "Dekany: 8 through 12" performed at Slippery
Rock U.

That is exceptionally beautiful George!

/^_,',',',_ //^/Kraig Grady_^_,',',',_
Mesotonal Music from:
_'''''''_ ^North/Western Hemisphere:
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>

_'''''''_^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria
<http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/>

',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',

a momentary antenna as i turn to water
this evaporates - an island once again

On 2/11/10 1:21 PM, gdsecor wrote:
>
>
> Here's the expanded (4'30") version that I made for the 26
> October performance (in 2 different file formats):
> http://xenharmony.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Dekany_8-12A.mp3
> http://xenharmony.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Dekany_8-12A.ogg
>
> I haven't seen or heard anything yet about videos of either
> performance, other than that they do exist, but I'll keep you
> posted.
>
> --George
>
>

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🔗Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...>

This dekany fits nice into a 17 tone constant structure scale
http://anaphoria.com/dekanyconstantstructures.pdf
it being the same as the 1-3-5-9-11 dekany seen on page 4.
I was not able to find a way to add less notes to make it so, but then one gets the inverted dekany to play with also.

/^_,',',',_ //^/Kraig Grady_^_,',',',_
Mesotonal Music from:
_'''''''_ ^North/Western Hemisphere:
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>

_'''''''_^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria <http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/>

',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',

a momentary antenna as i turn to water
this evaporates - an island once again

On 3/11/10 8:09 AM, chrisvaisvil@... wrote:
>
> I didn't get to listen until now. I like it as well. Is this > tuning perhaps related BP? It has some chords that remind me > of Elaine's work.
>
> Chris
> *
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@... > <mailto:kraiggrady%40anaphoria.com>>
> Sender: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:07:38
> To: <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>>
> Reply-To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [MMM] Re: Expanded "Dekany: 8 through 12" > performed at Slippery
> Rock U.
>
> That is exceptionally beautiful George!
>
>
> /^_,',',',_ //^/Kraig Grady_^_,',',',_
> Mesotonal Music from:
> _'''''''_ ^North/Western Hemisphere:
> North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island > <http://anaphoria.com/>
>
> _'''''''_^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
> Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria
> <http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/>
>
> ',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',
>
> a momentary antenna as i turn to water
> this evaporates - an island once again
>
> On 2/11/10 1:21 PM, gdsecor wrote:
> >
> >
> > Here's the expanded (4'30") version that I made for the 26
> > October performance (in 2 different file formats):
> > > http://xenharmony.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Dekany_8-12A.mp3
> > > http://xenharmony.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Dekany_8-12A.ogg
> >
> > I haven't seen or heard anything yet about videos of either
> > performance, other than that they do exist, but I'll keep you
> > posted.
> >
> > --George
> >
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

🔗gdsecor <gdsecor@...>

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
> On 2/11/10 1:21 PM, gdsecor wrote:
> >
> > Here's the expanded (4'30") version that I made for the 26
> > October performance (in 2 different file formats):
> > http://xenharmony.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Dekany_8-12A.mp3
> > http://xenharmony.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Dekany_8-12A.ogg
> > ...
> >
> > --George
>
> That is exceptionally beautiful George!

Thanks for listening, Kraig.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, chrisvaisvil@... wrote:
>
> I didn't get to listen until now. I like it as well. Is this tuning perhaps related BP? It has some chords that remind me of Elaine's work.

The tuning is 11-limit JI (without 7), so it's related to BP only inasmuch as BP was intended to approximate rational intervals. I'll explain how I arrived at this particular set of tones below.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
>
> This dekany fits nice into a 17 tone constant structure scale
> http://anaphoria.com/dekanyconstantstructures.pdf
> it being the same as the 1-3-5-9-11 dekany seen on page 4.
> I was not able to find a way to add less notes to make it so,
> but then one gets the inverted dekany to play with also.

Thanks for investigating this, since I didn't take the time to figure out the actual ratios in the combination product set. I spent the better part of an hour experimenting with various combinations of numbers for harmonic factors in order to arrive at something that: 1) was not atonal; and 2) produced a sequence of pitches that could be perceived as a melodic line. With the 8,9,10,11,12-dekany I was pleasantly surprised to get something that I would describe as "neo-renaissance."

Given the original 60-second time constraint, I was not able to end the piece on a tonic chord, as I would have liked, so it left the impression that there might be more to the piece. This was true insofar as the tones will continue to play until a "stop" command is executed in the software, but, since 60x60 submissions are not allowed to be excerpts of larger works, in the absence of an existing larger work I was "officially" able to submit the resulting file as the entire piece. The 4'30" version was generated 10 months later and does not exactly quote anything in the original version.

--George

🔗Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...>

The Composer Doug Leedy used this sequence to play and sing Landini which I heard him perform. This might fit in with a neo-renaissance even if he was a bit before that.

/^_,',',',_ //^/Kraig Grady_^_,',',',_
Mesotonal Music from:
_'''''''_ ^North/Western Hemisphere:
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>

_'''''''_^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria <http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/>

',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',

a momentary antenna as i turn to water
this evaporates - an island once again

On 5/11/10 4:37 AM, gdsecor wrote:
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>, Kraig Grady > <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
> > On 2/11/10 1:21 PM, gdsecor wrote:
> > >
>
>
> Thanks for investigating this, since I didn't take the time to > figure out the actual ratios in the combination product set. I > spent the better part of an hour experimenting with various > combinations of numbers for harmonic factors in order to > arrive at something that: 1) was not atonal; and 2) produced a > sequence of pitches that could be perceived as a melodic line. > With the 8,9,10,11,12-dekany I was pleasantly surprised to get > something that I would describe as "neo-renaissance."
>
> Given the original 60-second time constraint, I was not able > to end the piece on a tonic chord, as I would have liked, so > it left the impression that there might be more to the piece. > This was true insofar as the tones will continue to play until > a "stop" command is executed in the software, but, since 60x60 > submissions are not allowed to be excerpts of larger works, in > the absence of an existing larger work I was "officially" able > to submit the resulting file as the entire piece. The 4'30" > version was generated 10 months later and does not exactly > quote anything in the original version.
>
> --George
>
>