New Music on SoundClick by Prent Rodgers

Fellow Microtonalists:

Cross posted to Tuning also.

I've put a new piece up on my SoundClick web site. It's based on a set
of major and minor chords in the Partch tonality diamond.

To hear the music, go to http://www.soundclick.com/PrentRodgers and
listen or download *Wasatch Front*.

The piece is scored for a woodwind quintet, and has a sound in the
style of Darius Milhaud or Hindemith. It also takes advantage of some
fancy doppler effects to highlight very small pitch change glissandi,
like 35:36, 120:121, and 80:81. This is from some work by John
Chowning circa 1971. He imitated moving sounds with doppler shift
driven pitch changes. I start with the pitch changes and add glissandi
and volume envelopes to suggest woodwind players flying around the
room. I suggest headphones to hear the effects. The pitch changes are
required by the chord progression, but they become more rational by
virtue of the doppler effects. Or they might...

There are complete details up on my web site at
http://prodgers13.home.comcast.net . Click on Liner Notes and look at
Wasatch Front, or go to it directly at
http://prodgers13.home.comcast.net/liner/WasatchFront.htm .

Prent Rodgers
Mercer Island, WA

Prent,

{you wrote...}
>Fellow Microtonalists:

I'm not a microtonalist, but I'll chime in: another cool one! I loved the glisses, and I especially liked the section around 5:00, with the syncopes, and then a pause, and then a slide; also, the section of pyramid chords just a bit later is nice, esp. the different lengths of the chord staggering.

You are really fun to watch - every piece seems a step along a progression that you somehow already know about.

One little thing: maybe before you burn to mp3 you might want to insert a second or so of silence at the end. I think I've noticed it before, but the piece kind of 'clips' right on the last chord.

Must be the damp that makes you such a Csound stud! :)

Cheers,
Jon

Another amzing work, Prent !!!! Keep 'em coming.

Its amazing how interestingly human you make algorithmically conceived music
sound.

Best,
Aaron.

On Tuesday 01 June 2004 10:36 pm, Prent Rodgers wrote:
> Fellow Microtonalists:
>
> Cross posted to Tuning also.
>
> I've put a new piece up on my SoundClick web site. It's based on a set
> of major and minor chords in the Partch tonality diamond.
>
> To hear the music, go to http://www.soundclick.com/PrentRodgers and
> listen or download *Wasatch Front*.
>
> The piece is scored for a woodwind quintet, and has a sound in the
> style of Darius Milhaud or Hindemith. It also takes advantage of some
> fancy doppler effects to highlight very small pitch change glissandi,
> like 35:36, 120:121, and 80:81. This is from some work by John
> Chowning circa 1971. He imitated moving sounds with doppler shift
> driven pitch changes. I start with the pitch changes and add glissandi
> and volume envelopes to suggest woodwind players flying around the
> room. I suggest headphones to hear the effects. The pitch changes are
> required by the chord progression, but they become more rational by
> virtue of the doppler effects. Or they might...
>
> There are complete details up on my web site at
> http://prodgers13.home.comcast.net . Click on Liner Notes and look at
> Wasatch Front, or go to it directly at
> http://prodgers13.home.comcast.net/liner/WasatchFront.htm .
>
> Prent Rodgers
> Mercer Island, WA
>
>
>
>
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>

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

Jon,
Right you are. The convolution step truncated the end. I extended it
and now it plays better. Thanks.
Prent

> One little thing: maybe before you burn to mp3 you might want to
insert a
> second or so of silence at the end.
> Jon

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers"
<prentrodgers@c...> wrote:
> Fellow Microtonalists:
>
> Cross posted to Tuning also.
>
> I've put a new piece up on my SoundClick web site. It's based on a
set
> of major and minor chords in the Partch tonality diamond.
>
> To hear the music, go to http://www.soundclick.com/PrentRodgers and
> listen or download *Wasatch Front*.
>
> The piece is scored for a woodwind quintet, and has a sound in the
> style of Darius Milhaud or Hindemith.

Could be Milhaud except for the doppler glissandi. This is a new
sound for you, and I wonder if you used any algorithmic methods aside
from the doppler.

Keep up the good work, of course. :)