New piece: Passacaglia and Fugue State

I have just published a new piece called "Passacaglia and Fugue State" to http://mysterybear.net/articles/10.

This is third of three pieces inspired by La Monte Young's work with sine-tone installations based on prime-numbered harmonics. I used Scala to make a 31-tone "scale" base on LMY's "The Base 9:7:4 Symmetry...", and then used this within Steven Yi's blue with Csound on the back end.

MP3 and Ogg versions are available on the page. Comments are welcome, as always! Hope you enjoy it.

- Dave

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Dave Seidel
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[music] http://mysterybear.net

Dave,

{you wrote...}
>MP3 and Ogg versions are available on the page. Comments are welcome, as >always! Hope you enjoy it.

Check your source code on the page: both links point to the .ogg file (I got the mp3 as well by pasting and correcting the link).

Cheers,
Jon

Whoops! Thanks, Jon, fixed.

- Dave

Jonathan M. Szanto wrote:
> Dave,
> > {you wrote...}
> >>MP3 and Ogg versions are available on the page. Comments are welcome, as >>always! Hope you enjoy it.
> > > Check your source code on the page: both links point to the .ogg file (I > got the mp3 as well by pasting and correcting the link).
> > Cheers,
> Jon > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > > > > > > >

I have an entirely fanciful question to players of any of the following instruments:

flute, clarinet, bassoon, trombone, violin, contrabass

I've recently had the (adjective omitted) idea of arranging an 11-tet piece of mine (_Ortolans encore une fois?_ (translation omitted)) for solo keyboard and ensemble, as a kind of concertino. Naturally, getting wind and string instruments to play in 11-tet is a tall order, but the piece has lots of ostinati, repeated, and sustained notes, so it shouldn't be entirely out of the question. I'm wondering if any list members play any of the instruments above, and if so, can you play a reasonable (accuracy + reliability) 11tet scale based on either c=523.3 or a=440? [ i.e. c, db+9, d+18, eb+27, e+36, f+45, g-45, ab-36, a-27, bb-18, b-9 or a, bb+9, b+18, c+27, c#+36, d+45, e-45, f-36, f#-27, g-18, g#-9]

Are any pitches or melodic intervals particularly difficult?

For clarinet, would it be better with an A or Bb instrument? (I can manage it on my Eb clarinet, but it's a simple system instrument, and the piece needs the lower range).

For the strings, does it help to tune the open strings to 11-tet pitches?

Thanks in advance,

DJW