New (old) EP release: Effluve ana moontense

All I want to say here is, I am not cut out to be a recording engineer. So much careful listening needed for making a "once and for all" recording of something, especially when microphones (real OR virtual) are involved, wow. The non-objectivity of even really nice headphones and speakers was never so apparent to me.

Bonus for MMM: Somewhere in this album there is a (tempered) arpeggio up the harmonic series, immediately followed by an arpeggio down the subharmonic series. Find it!

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http://jacobbarton.bandcamp.com/

12/13/11

EFFLUVE ANA MOONTENSE—Music for retuned pianos and voice; a gateway into a sound world of unknown unknowns.

The global organization of music is almost complete. When it is complete, music itself will offer no new potentials (except when propped up by the potentials of other, less organized systems such as children).

The pursuit of Xenharmonic Music reverses this decay, recognizing the legitimacy of possibilities which were prematurely discarded and systematically hidden from musicians for the past few centuries.

Which old patterns must be resisted for truly new systems to emerge?

New technologies are slowly breaching the classic vicious cycle—"We need good music to justify building new instruments, but we need new instruments in order to compose good music"—but the significance of xenharmonics is still invisible.

Only acts of composition—meetings of whimsy and rigor—can make the invisible visible.

Listening just now, sorry for delay.
Really a great work! ...but no fugue after the Mozart variations :-)
Going to share on Facebook.
Bests!
Claudi Meneghin

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> All I want to say here is, I am not cut out to be a recording engineer. So much careful listening needed for making a "once and for all" recording of something, especially when microphones (real OR virtual) are involved, wow. The non-objectivity of even really nice headphones and speakers was never so apparent to me.
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> Bonus for MMM: Somewhere in this album there is a (tempered) arpeggio up the harmonic series, immediately followed by an arpeggio down the subharmonic series. Find it!
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> -------
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> http://jacobbarton.bandcamp.com/
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> 12/13/11
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> EFFLUVE ANA MOONTENSE�Music for retuned pianos and voice; a gateway into a sound world of unknown unknowns.
>
> The global organization of music is almost complete. When it is complete, music itself will offer no new potentials (except when propped up by the potentials of other, less organized systems such as children).
>
> The pursuit of Xenharmonic Music reverses this decay, recognizing the legitimacy of possibilities which were prematurely discarded and systematically hidden from musicians for the past few centuries.
>
> Which old patterns must be resisted for truly new systems to emerge?
>
> New technologies are slowly breaching the classic vicious cycle�"We need good music to justify building new instruments, but we need new instruments in order to compose good music"�but the significance of xenharmonics is still invisible.
>
> Only acts of composition�meetings of whimsy and rigor�can make the invisible visible.
>