Re: [MMM] Digest Number 1091

Hello Margo, thanks for Librar29a (or 29c ?, it says "a" on the icon, and
"c" on the rolling Winamp title). This new piece feels sweeter and more
supple than Librar22, which I also enjoy. The file for 29 came in with less
volume than 22.

A happy 2005 to you, and for those with whom you work !

Dominique Larr�

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Subject: [MMM] Digest Number 1091

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> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:47:44 -0800 (PST)
> From: Margo Schulter <mschulter@...>
> Subject: Composition -- version in 29-EDO (ogg link)
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> Hello, everyone, and for my first post of 2005 I'd like to share a
> piece:
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> <http://www.calweb.com/~mschulter/librar29a.ogg>
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> This piece for three voices, which I composed in 1985, is here
> realized in 29-EDO (aka 29-tET), using Scala 1.86 for Linux
> (text-based version) to generate a MIDI file, and then Timidity++ to
> convert the MIDI to ogg format.
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> Please let me apologize for not also having already made available a
> version in mp3 format, which I'd like to do as soon as I figure out
> how, and possibly download some more software to have the right
> tool(s) for this -- with the Slackware Linux 10.0 distribution, there
> are a number of applications for _playing_ mp3's. Also, I'd like to
> find a good site for a general archive of my music (composed or
> improvised) in ogg and mp3 formats, and would prefer a policy of
> making pieces available in both formats. There have been some helpful
> posts on this topic of sites for making audio files generally
> available, and I'd welcome more discussion and advice on this (I've
> also had some helpful discussions offline).
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> One question raised by my General MIDI instrumentation is the nature
> of default MIDI-based string timbres, which I find add diversity to
> the consort of sounds (with contrasting timbres helping to
> differentate the melodic layers), but without closely emulating the
> variations characteristic of acoustical string playing.
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> Here 29-EDO is a kind of modern variation on medieval Pythagorean
> tuning, the "historically correct" intonation for this kind of style.
> The genre might be described as conductus, with the voices often
> moving together in more or less note-against-note style; three-voice
> textures in this genre are common around 1200, with a range of modern
> performance interpretations. During my youth, ensembles mixing voices
> with contrasting instrumental timbres for different lines were often
> favored; over the last three decades, performances by voices alone
> have come more into vogue.
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> Please let me express many thanks to those of you here and elsewhere
> who have helped to get me to this point.
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> In view of Aaron Johnson's special role in facilitating my adventures
> with Linux, I would like warmly to dedicate this modest version of my
> piece to Aaron, his wife Lorna, and his grandfather Clarence -- with
> many thanks.
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> Most appreciatively,
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> Margo
> mschulter@...