Re: [MMM] Re: 15

Jacob said...

> ... of 15-tet works...
> I fear there is no corpus...

Well, but there do exist *some* 15-tET works by some people, and that's
starting to become a "corpus". For example, I've written two large-scale
extended works in 15-tET, about 2 hours worth of music.

Why do I like 15-tET? I dunno... it has a really different melodic sound
that's nowhere near a "recognizable diatonic" system. It has some nice
smooth intervals and some pretty rough intervals, which seem to give a
great variety of weird chords in addition to pretty fair "triads". E.g.,
the "pythagorean 3rd" of 400 cents with wide 5th of 720 make a really
vibrant "major" chord; and there are a couple types of "minor" chord
(320cents + 640 cents, or 320cents + 720cents)... Etcetera and so forth.

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

(BTW, I've been long-time looking for a "piano" VSTi that is both
convincing and can load ".tun" files (or even Scala files)... I've use the
4Front piano module and mdaPiano; both are pretty OK... Does anyone know a
VSTi that can do a good microtonal piano???)

Rick

I believe that Brian McLaren did a rather extended 15 ET piano concerto in 3
movements

Rick McGowan wrote:

> Jacob said...
>
> > ... of 15-tet works...
> > I fear there is no corpus...
>
> Well, but there do exist *some* 15-tET works by some people, and that's
> starting to become a "corpus". For example, I've written two large-scale
> extended works in 15-tET, about 2 hours worth of music.
>
> Why do I like 15-tET? I dunno... it has a really different melodic sound
> that's nowhere near a "recognizable diatonic" system. It has some nice
> smooth intervals and some pretty rough intervals, which seem to give a
> great variety of weird chords in addition to pretty fair "triads". E.g.,
> the "pythagorean 3rd" of 400 cents with wide 5th of 720 make a really
> vibrant "major" chord; and there are a couple types of "minor" chord
> (320cents + 640 cents, or 320cents + 720cents)... Etcetera and so forth.
>
> Now, Jacob: Where'd you get the 15-tet piano sound in "3.3.mp3" ???
>
> (BTW, I've been long-time looking for a "piano" VSTi that is both
> convincing and can load ".tun" files (or even Scala files)... I've use the
> 4Front piano module and mdaPiano; both are pretty OK... Does anyone know a
> VSTi that can do a good microtonal piano???)
>
> Rick
>
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