New Music on SoundClick

I've posted a new piece on SoundClick at
http://www.soundclick.com/pro/?BandID=104802

This piece, for Microtonal Slide Piano (in Csound) explored many
different ideas. In no particular order:

1. Applying a frequency function table to a piano note, so that it
slides up or down and has a vibrato at the end of the slide, much
like a slide guitar.

2. Change the piano sound by applying an amplitude function table to
notes. Some have a normal piano sound, some have a gradual crescendo,
some are very truncated and dry, some have no attack, also like a
country slide guitar.

3. There is more indeterminacy as the piece moves on. At first,
almost everything is scripted, but over time, less and less is
specified, until at the end, almost anything is possible.

4. I just finished reading Kent Wheeler Keenan's book, "Counterpoint,
based on eighteenth century practice", and attempted to use some of
the ideas in the context of the Partch hexany.

5. The title of the song, by the way, is from the lead up to the Iraq
war. in March 2003, the British Foreign Minister, Sir Jeremy
Greenstock, was trying to rally the Security Council to create
another resolution to endorse the impending attack. The French
suddenly announced that they would veto any resolution put forward by
Britain or the US, regardless of language. Sir Jeremy was quoted in
the lobby of the U.N. building as saying, "Given this situation the
co-sponsors have agreed that we will not pursue a vote on the draft
UK-US-Spanish resolution in blue."

Resolution in Blue is the diplomatic language for a permanent
resolution. The security council decided to remain siezed of the
matter, and the rest is history.

This is the final version of a piece I've been working on for far too
long. It started out as a string quartet, then morphed into a piano
piece. The last few weeks of work is discussed on my weblog at
http://www.xanga.com/Music1024 .

Prent Rodgers
Mercer Island, WA

This is really cool; I'm listening right now . . .

> the ideas in the context of the Partch hexany.

Is this like a Partch hexad? Or a Wilson hexany?

Paul,
I use the Partch 11 limit diamond, and for each utonality, there are
six notes in the scale. For example, in G minor, I have G, A--, Ab,
C, D+, and E++. G Bb D+ make a very nice g minor chord. A--, C, E++
make something more unusual. I generally take each triad together,
and alternate between the triads in the six note set, the hexany.

Prent Rodgers

"Paul Erlich" <perlich@a...> wrote:

> > the ideas in the context of the Partch hexany.
>
> Is this like a Partch hexad? Or a Wilson hexany?

Make that Bb, not Ab. Sorry,
> Paul,
> I use the Partch 11 limit diamond, and for each utonality, there
are
> six notes in the scale. For example, in G minor, I have G, A--, Bb,
> C, D+, and E++.
See a nice picture at http://prodgers13.home.comcast.net for a shot
of my diamond marimba, with note names as I see them.

Prent

Prent,

{you wrote...}
>I've posted a new piece on SoundClick at
>http://www.soundclick.com/pro/?BandID=104802

Just a quick comment, in case anyone else experiences this: when I downloaded the file, it wants to give it an odd name, "delite5", instead of any name you might have given it (and it doesn't show it as an .mp3 extension). I downloaded successfully, and renamed the file. When accessing the download link the status bar shows:

http://64.68.1.184/delite5\HiD/prentrodgers+resolutioninblue.mp3

Is that backslash correct? Is this a server weirdness? Or is this just me using the Opera browser?

Cheers,
Jon

Jon,
I think it is you. Mine doesn't do that.
Prent

>
> http://64.68.1.184/delite5\HiD/prentrodgers+resolutioninblue.mp3
>
> Is that backslash correct? Is this a server weirdness? Or is this
just me
> using the Opera browser?
>

Backslashes are formally disallowed in URLs. You must use forward slashes.
Some browsers barf on backslashes. The URL should be:

http://64.68.1.184/delite5/HiD/prentrodgers+resolutioninblue.mp3

Rick

> Is that backslash correct?

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers"
<prentrodgers@c...> wrote:
> Paul,
> I use the Partch 11 limit diamond, and for each utonality, there
are
> six notes in the scale. For example, in G minor, I have G, A--, Ab,

you mean Bb?

> C, D+, and E++. G Bb D+ make a very nice g minor chord. A--, C, E++
> make something more unusual. I generally take each triad together,
> and alternate between the triads in the six note set, the hexany.

Just to avoid possible confusion, Partch calls this a "hexad". The
term "hexany" refers to something different, a 6-note scale that is,
in a sense, an "atonal" analogue to the diamond.

MicroMusicians:
Paul is right. I meant Hexad: A six note utonality or otonality
scale. That's all I've ever used. I need to study the terminolgy
more. Thanks for the correction.

Prent Rodgers

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Erlich" <perlich@a...>
wrote:
>> Just to avoid possible confusion, Partch calls this a "hexad". The
> term "hexany" refers to something different, a 6-note scale that
is,
> in a sense, an "atonal" analogue to the diamond.