Re: 15

> I'm very inexperienced and unknowledgeable about any corpus of 15-tet works. I
> know Blackwood has some guitar music, etc.

I fear there is no corpus...

> I confess I was unimpressed with it at the time.....I tend to like JI or JI
> like temperaments best, but have heard stunning stuff in tunings that had
> nothing to do with approximating JI. 15-tet, to me, strikes me as
> uninteresting *precisely* because it's in the middle of those worlds (maybe
> that's why it's interesting--like the math professor asking 'what's the first
> uninteresting number', which makes it interesting--thus there are no
> uninteresting numbers (or tunings))

If you're more of the JI type, try the just tuning I mentioned below. Oooooh, and I just
tried a mode of 31 equal (every other note plus one little skip) and it is quite nifty!

> Maybe *you* could lead this particular 15-tet discussion? Tell us what turns
> *you* on and why....pump some passion into these discussion!

Hmmm. My experience was with banging on a keyboard with a bright-sounding
piano patch. My setup prefers systems with average step size close to 12 because it
stretches samples horribly at the extremes. To my delight I could get a lovely
harmonic 11th chord (my fascination with which I owe to Prent).

> Jacob, let me hold up a mirror (I like this discussion). Since you are seduced
> by 15-tet, start out by telling us why you are....do you have any mp3/MIDI
> examples, if not compositions, you would share with us to relate particular
> instances that illustrated your seduction?

http://brown-1173.brown.rice.edu/~jb/3.3.mp3

Here lies a "hyperimprovisation" (i.e. sped up) that is far from perfect, although I hope
to flesh it out into a formal piece some time. Most of the fun harmony comes from
playing parallel intervals; these are the most sensible progressions I can make with a
normal keyboard so far.

On Friday 30 April 2004 02:35 pm, Jacob wrote:

> http://brown-1173.brown.rice.edu/~jb/3.3.mp3
>
> Here lies a "hyperimprovisation" (i.e. sped up) that is far from perfect,
> although I hope to flesh it out into a formal piece some time. Most of the
> fun harmony comes from playing parallel intervals; these are the most
> sensible progressions I can make with a normal keyboard so far.

Hey, there's a lovely sonority at 1:15-1:17 in the mp3. Maybe I ought have
another look at 15-tet !!!

It has a frenetic restlessness as well as a psychedelic 'Alice in Wonderland'
feel that I kind of like, too.

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

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron K. Johnson"
<akjmicro@c...> wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2004 02:35 pm, Jacob wrote:
>
> > http://brown-1173.brown.rice.edu/~jb/3.3.mp3
> >
> > Here lies a "hyperimprovisation" (i.e. sped up) that is far from
perfect,
> > although I hope to flesh it out into a formal piece some time.
Most of the
> > fun harmony comes from playing parallel intervals; these are the
most
> > sensible progressions I can make with a normal keyboard so far.
>
> Hey, there's a lovely sonority at 1:15-1:17 in the mp3. Maybe I
ought have
> another look at 15-tet !!!

Ara (my partner in microtonal crime) was playing some rich, thick
chord progressions in 15-equal (far from mere triads) and it sounded
just fabulous. I'll see if I can get him to record some of that stuff
next time . . .

"Now, Jacob: Where'd you get the 15-tet piano sound in "3.3.mp3" ???"

Emu Proteus/1 XR. 'Tain't software, sorry to say.

"15 keeps you moving fast, since most of the intervals are pretty far
from JI, and sitting on them can be "painful".

And I do have a tendency to keep on movin', I'll admit it. That would explain my
delight in 15...

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron K. Johnson"

/makemicromusic/topicId_6416.html#6422

<akjmicro@c...> wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2004 02:35 pm, Jacob wrote:
>
> > http://brown-1173.brown.rice.edu/~jb/3.3.mp3
> >
> > Here lies a "hyperimprovisation" (i.e. sped up) that is far from
perfect,
> > although I hope to flesh it out into a formal piece some time.
Most of the
> > fun harmony comes from playing parallel intervals; these are the
most
> > sensible progressions I can make with a normal keyboard so far.
>
> Hey, there's a lovely sonority at 1:15-1:17 in the mp3. Maybe I
ought have
> another look at 15-tet !!!
>
> It has a frenetic restlessness as well as a psychedelic 'Alice in
Wonderland'
> feel that I kind of like, too.
>
> Aaron Krister Johnson
> http://www.dividebypi.com
> http://www.akjmusic.com

***I'm finding this quite interesting, myself... particularly
the "restlessness" of it...

J. Pehrson

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson"
<jpehrson@r...> wrote:

> ***I'm finding this quite interesting, myself... particularly
> the "restlessness" of it...

If 12-et is red meat, what is 15? Pork liver?