Re: [MMM] new piece on-line

Hi Christopher,

your link didn't work. Oh my!

Say hi to Repetto for me.

George

Christopher Bailey wrote:

> 8 Terrains
> - --------
>
> 2 saxes, 2 e. guitars, 2 kybrds, bass, computer (MAX/MSP)
>
> http://music.columbia.edu/chris/sounds/terrains.mp3
>
> Technically the piece is in 48-tone ET (i.e. 8th tones). I worked
> with the harmonies on the OpenMusic software from IRCAM. This is
> normally used for manipulation of spectrally-derived harmonies (as in
> Tristan Murail's and many other European's music), but I derived these
> particular harmonies, intuitively / by ear.
>
> A lot of the piece is improvisation, in rhtymically constrained
> "bursts" of activity. Through all of that, you can hear a succession of 8
> rich chords. The parts are marked to the 1/8-tone of accuracy, but I
> instruct the players to play this as accurately as possible depending on
> how fast and what type of material they're playing at a given moment.
>
> There is a computer part in the background, spinning out
> long-tones that belong to the harmonies. These are, of course, in correct
> tuning. Sadly, you can't really hear them until the "computer climax"
> about 3/5 through the piece, when you'll hear a very pretty (I hope) chord
> "overtake" the texture.
>
> So it's a little messy, performance/recording wise, but I think by
> the end it proves fairly exciting and worthwhile. I plan to re-record the
> work in a cleaner more controlled fashion, to better capture the
> rapid-fire alternation between improvised and composed materials.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> CB
>
> [MMM info]------------------------------------------------------
> More MMM music files are at http://www.microtonal.org/music.html
> ------------------------------------------------------[MMM info]
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

George,

{you wrote...}
>your link didn't work. Oh my!

Try the following - looks like Chris had his tilde removed by mistake:

http://music.columbia.edu/~chris/sounds/terrains.mp3

Cheers,
Jon

Thanks Jon!

"Jonathan M. Szanto" wrote:

> George,
>
> {you wrote...}
> >your link didn't work. Oh my!
>
> Try the following - looks like Chris had his tilde removed by mistake:
>
> http://music.columbia.edu/~chris/sounds/terrains.mp3
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
> [MMM info]------------------------------------------------------
> More MMM music files are at http://www.microtonal.org/music.html
> ------------------------------------------------------[MMM info]
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/