Boogie Pie in 12 of 23-tet

Hey all-

My latest piece (links below) is inspired by the discussion on MMM about
player-piano music. I have to say I've come around to seeing Jon's point
about cheap-toylike digital piano timbres for Nancarrow-ripoffs. My quote to
Jacob regarding his wonderful set of variations was:

>My one critique is that the elegant Mozart theme is not suited to the bad
>digital piano timbre, although the variations that follow are, so once the
>variations came in I got into it

...and I second Jon's notion that the Mozart theme was a bit to
MIDI-quantified and stiff to my taste.

Anyway, Jacob has inspired me to explore 'cheap timbres' further, and on my
Korg X5DR tuned to a 12 of 23-tet subset that Paul Erlich sent me and calls
'Ripple':
> Ripple [12]:
> > step sizes: 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2
> > result: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 13 15 17 19 21
....I came up with a stride/boogie Nancarrow ripoff, 'Boogie Pie', that I'm
*quite* fond of and pleased with. Ogg and MP3 versions (the Ogg version is
nicer sounding, but let's not start that thread again):

http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/boogie_pie.ogg
http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/boogie_pie.mp3

Comments, praise, criticisms welcome....enjoy!!

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

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

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<akjmicro@c...> wrote:
> Hey all-
>
> My latest piece (links below) is inspired by the discussion on MMM
about
> player-piano music.

***This piece seems effective. I particularly like the ascending
microtonal line. Of course, I'm a "sucker" for ascending or
descending microtonal lines, since I find microtonality most obvious
in such devices... Is this "stride" piano... or is that something
else?... And isn't there a great "stride" player named Johnson? Am I
imagining things?? Thanks!

J. Pehrson

On Sunday 28 November 2004 01:01 pm, Joseph Pehrson wrote:
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron K. Johnson"
>
> /makemicromusic/topicId_8050.html#8050
>
> <akjmicro@c...> wrote:
> > Hey all-
> >
> > My latest piece (links below) is inspired by the discussion on MMM
>
> about
>
> > player-piano music.
>
> ***This piece seems effective. I particularly like the ascending
> microtonal line. Of course, I'm a "sucker" for ascending or
> descending microtonal lines, since I find microtonality most obvious
> in such devices... Is this "stride" piano... or is that something
> else?... And isn't there a great "stride" player named Johnson? Am I
> imagining things?? Thanks!

It's a bit of stride and boogie and xentonal wackyness I guess.....thanks for
your comments, Joe.

as for a great stride player named Johnson, I think there's James P. Johnson,
I think...he might have 'put stride on the map' as I recall!

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