Wing Donevier

Hi All,

A while ago Jacky and others were talking about microtonal
music in odd time signatures, and this made me remember "Wing Donevier",
which is relentlessly in 7. You can find this at the group
web site:

/makemicromusic/files/sethares/Wing_Donevier.mp3

The original was all percussion, but since it was recorded as
a MIDI file, its easy to assign different voices. Since the percussion
was not-tonal (in no particular tonality, that is), I applied
the adaptive tuning algorithm - moving all the pitches slightly
so as to maximize instantaneous (sensory) consonance.
Thus each vertical slice of time is fairly consonant, even though
melodically (horizontally) there are many small adjustments.

Your thoughts and comments welcome.

--Bill Sethares

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., sethares@e... wrote:

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>
> Hi All,
>
> A while ago Jacky and others were talking about microtonal
> music in odd time signatures, and this made me remember "Wing
Donevier",
> which is relentlessly in 7. You can find this at the group
> web site:
>
>
/makemicromusic/files/sethares/Wing_Donev
ier.mp3
>
> The original was all percussion, but since it was recorded as
> a MIDI file, its easy to assign different voices. Since the
percussion
> was not-tonal (in no particular tonality, that is), I applied
> the adaptive tuning algorithm - moving all the pitches slightly
> so as to maximize instantaneous (sensory) consonance.
> Thus each vertical slice of time is fairly consonant, even though
> melodically (horizontally) there are many small adjustments.
>
> Your thoughts and comments welcome.
>
> --Bill Sethares

***Well, I guess I was asked to comment...

I like the opening premise of this piece. *Very* interesting! The
timbres are, of course, amazing.

Although I enjoy the piece as it stands, I would like to also hear
an "alternate" version, where the opening premise becomes *more*
abstract rather than *less* (I guess I mean *pop*). That being the
case, I believe the piece could be every bit as good is some of our
present electronic "masters" such as Paul Lansky, etc., etc.

That's just *me.* Maybe Bill doesn't want to do that, which is fine,
too.

Joseph Pehrson