_Blacklight_ .mp3 and score online

My new piece _Blacklight_ in the Blackjack scale for cello and
electronics is now online:

It's *finally* appeared on mp3.com:

http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2526/2526344.html

And the score is in the files folder:

/makemicromusic/files/Pehrson/

So, why did I put the score in MS Word??

Well, I couldn't make a .pdf from Sibelius since the Mook accidentals
were an unsupported PostScript font. The .pdf software "rebelled..."

But the Word version (actually created from .emf files) works quite
well, if you have it enlarged enough on the screen. Or, even better
yet, just print out the fairly short score. This works.

Since we're running out of file space in our Files area, I deleted
something else even *larger* I had there to make room for it.

It should be possible, with the sound file and the score, of course,
to do some kind of "analysis" of the piece, if anybody's
interested... with reference to moving around on the Blackjack
lattice...

I will enjoy and appreciate any comments, no matter how negative... :)

Thanks!

Joseph

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "jpehrson2" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:

> I will enjoy and appreciate any comments, no matter how
negative... :)

ok, the more i listen to this piece (6 times now?), the more i like
it.

at first i thought:

i like most of the melodic ideas, but i'm still bothered by the
unidirectionality of many of them . . . especially when you're moving
stepwise through blackjack scale (which is so uneven, and so
predictably so -- kind of gives the impression of a technical
impediment), instead of one of the 10- or 7-note subset scales.
mechanical melodic patterns can also be as bad or worse than
unidirectionality, i find . . . either way the whole affair can start
to sound a bit like "tuning" rather than "music" . . . (pssst . . .
ivor darreg . . .)

but the more i listen, the more the whole thing comes together as a
coherent, artistic whole . . . i kind of get acclimated to the
surface melodic textures and start to get the larger picture . . .
nice job!

(i must say that once the harmony started becoming consonant at about
1:27, i knew an extended common-tone progression was about to
arrive ;) -- and you did not disappoint! :) )

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "paulerlich" <paul@s...> wrote:

/makemicromusic/topicId_3494.html#3502

> --- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "jpehrson2" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:
>
> > I will enjoy and appreciate any comments, no matter how
> negative... :)
>
> ok, the more i listen to this piece (6 times now?), the more i like
> it.

***Thanks so much, Paul, for the dedicated listenings!!!

>
> at first i thought:
>
> i like most of the melodic ideas, but i'm still bothered by the
> unidirectionality of many of them . . . especially when you're
moving
> stepwise through blackjack scale (which is so uneven, and so
> predictably so -- kind of gives the impression of a technical
> impediment), instead of one of the 10- or 7-note subset scales.

***Are you thinking here of the "chromatic" [every other note]
and "Mohajira" [every three note] scales that we discussed??

> mechanical melodic patterns can also be as bad or worse than
> unidirectionality, i find . . . either way the whole affair can
start
> to sound a bit like "tuning" rather than "music" . . . (pssst . . .
> ivor darreg . . .)
>
> but the more i listen, the more the whole thing comes together as a
> coherent, artistic whole . . . i kind of get acclimated to the
> surface melodic textures and start to get the larger picture . . .
> nice job!

***It does take a bit getting into the sonic "world" of the piece...

>
> (i must say that once the harmony started becoming consonant at
about
> 1:27, i knew an extended common-tone progression was about to
> arrive ;) -- and you did not disappoint! :) )

***It's been a great experience working with Blackjack. I intend to
do some *more* work with it with solo instruments and electronics,
quite probably with timbres that I'm going to create *myself* rather
than using "presets..." for a change.

Thanks again!

Joseph

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "jpehrson2" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:

> ***Are you thinking here of the "chromatic" [every other note]
> and "Mohajira" [every three note] scales that we discussed??

right, and there's also the 5-note "slendro" scale . . .

> ***It's been a great experience working with Blackjack. I intend
to
> do some *more* work with it with solo instruments and electronics,
> quite probably with timbres that I'm going to create *myself*
rather
> than using "presets..." for a change.

great . . . also, i kind of wish you had the "generalized keyboard"
already, instead of the totally misfit 7-white-5-black . . . you'd be
able to compose a lot more spontaneously, dare i say "intuitively",
as each chord (consonant or otherwise) would have its own shape,
remaining unchanged no matter what pitch you based it on . . . and
you'd probably be broken out of those "chromatic runs" which bother
me so much :)

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "paulerlich" <paul@s...> wrote:

/makemicromusic/topicId_3494.html#3508

> --- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "jpehrson2" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:
>
> > ***Are you thinking here of the "chromatic" [every other note]
> > and "Mohajira" [every three note] scales that we discussed??
>
> right, and there's also the 5-note "slendro" scale . . .
>

%%%%I guess you're right, Paul... I didn't use these "variants" so
much in this piece as some of the previous ones...

>
> great . . . also, i kind of wish you had the "generalized keyboard"
> already, instead of the totally misfit 7-white-5-black . . . you'd
be
> able to compose a lot more spontaneously, dare i say "intuitively",
> as each chord (consonant or otherwise) would have its own shape,
> remaining unchanged no matter what pitch you based it on . . . and
> you'd probably be broken out of those "chromatic runs" which bother
> me so much :)

%%%%Well, hopefully Blackjack can sustain a "chromatic run" once one
gets used to it, but I know what you mean... Good idea about the
keyboard... the 7 + 5 is really out of place in these projects, as
I've mentioned previously....

best,

Joseph