In Cold Hell, in Thicket

In Cold Hell, in Thicket is a microtonal musical setting of Charles Olsen reading his poem in 1950 as provided by PennSound. The orchestration is choir in 14 edo, hang drums in 7, 14, and 21 edo, and percussion. A microtonalist may point out the 7 and 14 edo are subsets of 21 edo – however, since each iteration of hang drum used the same score the result is a polytuned interpretation of the hang drum score.

Oz, this is in some boring typical genre. I just can't figure out which one. Perhaps Wiccan dances for epileptics? Not sure.

online viewing / listening is here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=850

full quality video (256MB) is here http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/video/in_cold_hell_in_thicket.wmv

Audio only is here http://micro.soonlabel.com/14-et/IF20110205-acoustic-in-cold-hell-film.mp3

The band-limited vocal track occupies one niche, and the snare occupies another,
this is a good sound for some time;

Also, the poem has its rhythm, and the music has its insistent 5/4; this is a
kind of vaguely cyclical sound for some time;

They are both moderately tense;

After about five minutes I found my hand gradually turning down the faders --
this is because my ear fatigues quickly -- it tends to get tired during "noisy"
pieces, and it wants relief.

Young peeps like noisier pieces. I'm the wanker who's always scowling out of
his window at his noisy neighbors, & calling the cops about the noise, when the
cops will listen.

-c

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From: christopherv <chrisvaisvil@...>
To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 10:06:24 PM
Subject: [MMM] In Cold Hell, in Thicket

In Cold Hell, in Thicket is a microtonal musical setting of Charles Olsen
reading his poem in 1950 as provided by PennSound. The orchestration is choir in
14 edo, hang drums in 7, 14, and 21 edo, and percussion. A microtonalist may
point out the 7 and 14 edo are subsets of 21 edo – however, since each iteration
of hang drum used the same score the result is a polytuned interpretation of the
hang drum score.

Oz, this is in some boring typical genre. I just can't figure out which one.
Perhaps Wiccan dances for epileptics? Not sure.

online viewing / listening is here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=850

full quality video (256MB) is here
http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/video/in_cold_hell_in_thicket.wmv

Audio only is here
http://micro.soonlabel.com/14-et/IF20110205-acoustic-in-cold-hell-film.mp3

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Thanks for listening and commenting.

What you describe I agree with completely - this is needs the video that
goes with it.

My response to your comment - you challenge me to finding another way to
develop a compositional problem like this.
The poem was probably twice as long as the music could support well (as you
noted).

Chris

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Caleb Morgan <calebmrgn@...> wrote:

>
>
> The band-limited vocal track occupies one niche, and the snare occupies
> another,
> this is a good sound for some time;
>
> Also, the poem has its rhythm, and the music has its insistent 5/4; this is
> a
> kind of vaguely cyclical sound for some time;
>
> They are both moderately tense;
>
> After about five minutes I found my hand gradually turning down the faders
> --
> this is because my ear fatigues quickly -- it tends to get tired during
> "noisy"
> pieces, and it wants relief.
>
> Young peeps like noisier pieces. I'm the wanker who's always scowling out
> of
> his window at his noisy neighbors, & calling the cops about the noise, when
> the
> cops will listen.
>
> -c
>
> ________________________________
> From: christopherv <chrisvaisvil@...>
> To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 10:06:24 PM
> Subject: [MMM] In Cold Hell, in Thicket
>
>
> In Cold Hell, in Thicket is a microtonal musical setting of Charles Olsen
> reading his poem in 1950 as provided by PennSound. The orchestration is
> choir in
> 14 edo, hang drums in 7, 14, and 21 edo, and percussion. A microtonalist
> may
> point out the 7 and 14 edo are subsets of 21 edo � however, since each
> iteration
> of hang drum used the same score the result is a polytuned interpretation
> of the
> hang drum score.
>
> Oz, this is in some boring typical genre. I just can't figure out which
> one.
> Perhaps Wiccan dances for epileptics? Not sure.
>
> online viewing / listening is here:
> http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=850
>
> full quality video (256MB) is here
> http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/video/in_cold_hell_in_thicket.wmv
>
> Audio only is here
> http://micro.soonlabel.com/14-et/IF20110205-acoustic-in-cold-hell-film.mp3
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>

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