new piece-'the beauty of poisonous peaches'

hey all,

i put a new piece up at www.akjmusic.com/audio/beauty.mp3

paste that into your location bars, i haven't updated the 'works' page yet to
include it.

i call it 'the beauty of poisonous peaches'. i don't know where that name
comes from, but it fits the sound of it, for me at least. i am thrown into a
very dreamy De Chirico or Dali painting or something hallucinogenic...
anyhow, i saw a javanese gamelan concert yesterday, and was thinking along the
line of organic processes.

technical data:
gentoo linux running my own python sequencer program 'pystepseq-2.0' and that
amazing 'RTSynth'

scales used:
*pentatonic based on fourth root of 36/7, i.e. a 9/7 supermajor third
*gene ward smith's 'aaron' scale, designed for me--thanks a million, gene !!!!
* two harmonics scales: first one harmonics 5-10, 2nd one same, but a 64/63
higher for septimal comma beating effects....

i hope you enjoy it. i consider this perhaps a starting point to do a series,
just as Monet did his haystack series. yes, this feels like a series of
'poisonous peach pieces' coming on....

best,
--
Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.dividebypi.com
http://www.akjmusic.com

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron K. Johnson"
<akjmicro@c...> wrote:

> i hope you enjoy it. i consider this perhaps a starting point to do
a series,
> just as Monet did his haystack series. yes, this feels like a
series of
> 'poisonous peach pieces' coming on....

I liked it, but it didn't remind me of poisonous peaches. That's OK
since I'm not much of a fan of poisonous peaches.

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 03:00 am, Gene Ward Smith wrote:
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron K. Johnson"
>
> <akjmicro@c...> wrote:
> > i hope you enjoy it. i consider this perhaps a starting point to do
>
> a series,
>
> > just as Monet did his haystack series. yes, this feels like a
>
> series of
>
> > 'poisonous peach pieces' coming on....
>
> I liked it, but it didn't remind me of poisonous peaches. That's OK
> since I'm not much of a fan of poisonous peaches.

LOL!!! very clever !

you know, maybe I'll give it one of those pretentious long names-a combination
of everyone in the group's instant free-association of what they visualize
while listening...

if not poisonous peaches, what did you see, gene?

would it be an asian grandmother handing out LSD? an ancient sumerian tickling
contest in slow-motion? a guard at the mcdonalds vault playing a zither made
of hardened, coiled, beetle intestines?

go nuts (i did).

cheers,
Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.dividebypi.com
http://www.akjmusic.com

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron K. Johnson"
<akjmicro@c...> wrote:
>
> hey all,
>
> i put a new piece up at www.akjmusic.com/audio/beauty.mp3
>
> paste that into your location bars, i haven't updated the 'works'
page yet to
> include it.
>

***Hi Aaron,

Nice meditative mood.

I thought the near-simultaneous pluckings really featured the
microtonal aspects of the piece. In fact, I can't think offhand of a
*better* piece for demonstrating microtonality...

Sometimes I think that featuring small intervals like this really
shows the distinctiveness of a microtonal style...

.
>
> technical data:
> gentoo linux running my own python sequencer program 'pystepseq-
2.0' and that
> amazing 'RTSynth'
>

***Probably I was sleeping again when that was discussed on this
list, but I presume it's a softsynth??

> scales used:
> *pentatonic based on fourth root of 36/7, i.e. a 9/7 supermajor
third

***That third is slightly *larger* than the 5/4, yes? Or is that
wrong. My math is so deficient at this moment that I can't figure
out how to figure this out... (somebody *please* illuminate the
innumerate...)

> *gene ward smith's 'aaron' scale, designed for me--thanks a
million, gene !!!!
> * two harmonics scales: first one harmonics 5-10, 2nd one same, but
a 64/63
> higher for septimal comma beating effects....
>

***The use of that septimal comma in the context of the 9/7 is really
what brought out the microtonal aspect, I believe... yes??

> i hope you enjoy it. i consider this perhaps a starting point to do
a series,
> just as Monet did his haystack series. yes, this feels like a
series of
> 'poisonous peach pieces' coming on....
>

***That sounds like a good idea. Certainly this is much different
from anything I have heard of yours so far...

best,

J. Pehrson

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith"
<gwsmith@s...> wrote:
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron K. Johnson"
> <akjmicro@c...> wrote:
>
> > i hope you enjoy it. i consider this perhaps a starting point to
do
> a series,
> > just as Monet did his haystack series. yes, this feels like a
> series of
> > 'poisonous peach pieces' coming on....
>
> I liked it, but it didn't remind me of poisonous peaches. That's OK
> since I'm not much of a fan of poisonous peaches.

The piece gave me a queasy feeling in my stomach, and although I
didn't think of it at the time, I suppose this is what would happen
if I ate some poisonous peaches!

Actually, I liked the piece a lot, I think this 'language' is very
promising . . . I just think my diet has been a bit too mundane for
my innards to be quite ready for such delicious, exotic fruit . . .
I'll have to try again some other time . . .

On Friday 23 April 2004 10:46 pm, Paul Erlich wrote:
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith"
>
> <gwsmith@s...> wrote:
> > --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron K. Johnson"
> >
> > <akjmicro@c...> wrote:
> > > i hope you enjoy it. i consider this perhaps a starting point to
>
> do
>
> > a series,
> >
> > > just as Monet did his haystack series. yes, this feels like a
> >
> > series of
> >
> > > 'poisonous peach pieces' coming on....
> >
> > I liked it, but it didn't remind me of poisonous peaches. That's OK
> > since I'm not much of a fan of poisonous peaches.
>
> The piece gave me a queasy feeling in my stomach, and although I
> didn't think of it at the time, I suppose this is what would happen
> if I ate some poisonous peaches!
>
> Actually, I liked the piece a lot, I think this 'language' is very
> promising . . . I just think my diet has been a bit too mundane for
> my innards to be quite ready for such delicious, exotic fruit . . .
> I'll have to try again some other time . . .

Hard on *Paul Erlich's* stomach = deadly for the general 12-tet public.

The piece will be put into a time capsule, and only 200 years from now should
any random grandmother listen to it. It's successful tone-painting at it's
most dangerous.

...perhaps I should stick to 19-tet, as a matter of public health!

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.dividebypi.com
http://www.akjmusic.com