Re: [MMM] filling the soul with a solemn joy

Hi Marc,

It's a 1988 free-pitch piece that was played on a standard Steinberger
using microtonal scordatura and tremolo bar pitch displacement.

take care,

--Dan Stearns

----- Original Message -----
From: "Orphon Soul, Inc." <tuning@...>
To: "MakeMicroMusic" <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [MMM] filling the sole with a solemn joy

> On 3/19/02 11:03 AM, "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@...> wrote:
>
> Filet of sole at cape cod in a net with joy dishwashing liquid. :)
Lots of
> lemon either way. Definitely reminds me of being in the woods. Far
into
> the woods. Do lemons grow in the woods? No they grow on trees
silly.
>
> What kinds of tunings and surfaces are you using? (i.e. e.g. What
> temperaments, how fretted, fretless, etc.)
>
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Robert,

The bird calls were more the result of it being a nature piece than
any premeditated transcription of actual birds on my part. But in
another sense it's hard to tell for sure, because I steal from
everything I hear whether I want to or not, it just happens... thanks
for listening!

take care,

--Dan Stearns

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Walker" <robertwalker@...>
To: <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:48 PM
Subject: [MMM] filling the soul with a solemn joy

> Hi Dan,
>
> Just to say I'm enjoying your microtonal guitar piece; played it
> several times today and keep wanting to go back to it.
>
> I like all those slow pitch glides too, and very slow pitch
vibratos.
>
> I think some of it is inspired by bird song is it not, those
repeating
> clear notes, and there is a very clear cuckoo in there too (at 52
seconds,
> with an echo moved down a little in pitch at 58 secs).
> Well, whether intentional or not it I heard it like that.
>
> Thanks :-)
>
> Robert
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Thanks George,

The ending is definitely one of those 'unresolved, cut to cosmic
ambiguity' Ivesian endings that he'd end most his slow pieces with.
Can you imagine Ives writing for the guitar... or a rock band? Oh
man... Satan aside, he would've loved speed metal!

take care,

--Dan Stearns

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Zelenz" <ploo@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:35 AM
Subject: Re: [MMM] filling the sole with a solemn joy

> Dano!
>
> Interesting. Ive's has become more of a light, than a subject in
your work
> lately.
>
> Helping one see, the forest for the trees.
>
> Thanks for the walk in the woods.
> gz
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--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@C...> wrote:

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> Thanks George,
>
> The ending is definitely one of those 'unresolved, cut to cosmic
> ambiguity' Ivesian endings that he'd end most his slow pieces with.
> Can you imagine Ives writing for the guitar... or a rock band? Oh
> man... Satan aside, he would've loved speed metal!
>
>
> take care,
>
> --Dan Stearns
>
>

***Hi Dan.

He didn't have to do that. That's what *you're* doing... !

jp