Piece in 17tet

After a long period of inactivity, I was finally able to put together a short piece of music the past few days with some vsts I purchased the past couple of years or so. It is a microtonal piece in 17tet (unlike my previous pieces in 14tet) using the following vsts:

m. 1 Tonehammer Whale Drum (Kontakt)
m. 5 Microtonic
m. 9 Mellotron Boys 1 from Kontakt Factory Library
m. 17 Mellotron Mix Strings 1 from Kontakt Factory Library
m. 25 Mellotron Boys 1 from Kontakt Factory Library

It is by no means a finished piece, but I thought it was about time to finally put something out there so someone could give it a listen.

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/ralphjarzombek/micro7.mp3

Wow, I have your mircos 1-6 here from 2004 (except I suspect that's
when I moved them over from another hard drive and that they were
actually earlier... true?)

Can't wait to listen. We've just moved house and I'm using the
internet from a cafe at the moment...

-Carl

At 05:07 PM 7/4/2011, you wrote:
>After a long period of inactivity, I was finally able to put together
>a short piece of music the past few days with some vsts I purchased
>the past couple of years or so. It is a microtonal piece in 17tet
>(unlike my previous pieces in 14tet) using the following vsts:
>
>m. 1 Tonehammer Whale Drum (Kontakt)
>m. 5 Microtonic
>m. 9 Mellotron Boys 1 from Kontakt Factory Library
>m. 17 Mellotron Mix Strings 1 from Kontakt Factory Library
>m. 25 Mellotron Boys 1 from Kontakt Factory Library
>
>It is by no means a finished piece, but I thought it was about time to
>finally put something out there so someone could give it a listen.
>
> http://webzoom.freewebs.com/ralphjarzombek/micro7.mp3
>

I don't know why it is, but I have had a difficult time following up those pieces. They were composed back in the 1980's, when all I had was an XT (pre Pentium) computer, a Yamaha TX81Z, a Quadraverb, and a program called Personal Composer (which I believe now only exists as a notation program and is no longer a sequencer program). All of those pieces still exist in their original form on 3.5" floppy disks. You would think that with all of the equipment I have now, it would be easier to compose microtonal pieces, but unfortunately that has not been the case. I just hope someone will get some enjoyment out of this piece.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <carl@...> wrote:
>
> Wow, I have your mircos 1-6 here from 2004 (except I suspect that's
> when I moved them over from another hard drive and that they were
> actually earlier... true?)
>
> Can't wait to listen. We've just moved house and I'm using the
> internet from a cafe at the moment...
>
> -Carl
>
> At 05:07 PM 7/4/2011, you wrote:
> >After a long period of inactivity, I was finally able to put together
> >a short piece of music the past few days with some vsts I purchased
> >the past couple of years or so. It is a microtonal piece in 17tet
> >(unlike my previous pieces in 14tet) using the following vsts:
> >
> >m. 1 Tonehammer Whale Drum (Kontakt)
> >m. 5 Microtonic
> >m. 9 Mellotron Boys 1 from Kontakt Factory Library
> >m. 17 Mellotron Mix Strings 1 from Kontakt Factory Library
> >m. 25 Mellotron Boys 1 from Kontakt Factory Library
> >
> >It is by no means a finished piece, but I thought it was about time to
> >finally put something out there so someone could give it a listen.
> >
> > http://webzoom.freewebs.com/ralphjarzombek/micro7.mp3
> >
>

Truly a spooky piece! Please work on it some more - there is a great deal of
potential. I can best describe my feel of the piece as a microtonal 60's spy
thriller theme. It has a catchy melody and nice rhythmic groove.

Chris

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, ralphjarzombek <terriandralph@...>wrote:

> **
>
>
> After a long period of inactivity, I finally put together a piece during
> the past few days in 17tet with some vsts I purchased during the past couple
> of years or so. I don't know that it's really finished; I just decided it
> was time to finally put something out there so that someone could give it a
> listen. It is a departure from my other microtonal pieces in 14tet, but I am
> rather intrigued with this tuning.
> For this piece I used the following vsts:
>
>
> m.1 - Tonehammer Whale Drum (Kontakt)
> m.5 - Microtonic
> m.9 - Mellotron Boys 1 (from Kontakt Factory Library)
> m.17 - Mellotron Mix Strings 1 (from Kontakt Factory Library)
> m.25 - Mellotron Boys 1 (from Kontakt Factory Library)
>
>
> http://webzoom.freewebs.com/ralphjarzombek/micro7.mp3
>
>
>

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Thanks for the comments and words of encouragement Chris!

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
>
> Truly a spooky piece! Please work on it some more - there is a great deal of
> potential. I can best describe my feel of the piece as a microtonal 60's spy
> thriller theme. It has a catchy melody and nice rhythmic groove.
>
> Chris
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, ralphjarzombek <terriandralph@...>wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > After a long period of inactivity, I finally put together a piece during
> > the past few days in 17tet with some vsts I purchased during the past couple
> > of years or so. I don't know that it's really finished; I just decided it
> > was time to finally put something out there so that someone could give it a
> > listen. It is a departure from my other microtonal pieces in 14tet, but I am
> > rather intrigued with this tuning.
> > For this piece I used the following vsts:
> >
> >
> > m.1 - Tonehammer Whale Drum (Kontakt)
> > m.5 - Microtonic
> > m.9 - Mellotron Boys 1 (from Kontakt Factory Library)
> > m.17 - Mellotron Mix Strings 1 (from Kontakt Factory Library)
> > m.25 - Mellotron Boys 1 (from Kontakt Factory Library)
> >
> >
> > http://webzoom.freewebs.com/ralphjarzombek/micro7.mp3
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>