My piece in 5-tet now finished

Some time ago, I presented a pre-version of "Asîmchômsaia", a piece of
mine in 5-tet and 5/8-rhythm. Now, after a lot of polishing (phew!), I
think the piece is sort of finished.

Music is available here:

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hsstraub/musik/asimchomsaia.mp3

The main idea is that the 5-tet tuning and the 5/8-rhythm gives me a
far-going symmetry between pitch and time, making it possible (and,
due to the limitedness of the basic set, not too expensive) to use
general 2-dimensional transformations in the motif-variation process.

Details on the "making of" can be found here:

http://home.datacomm.ch/straub/mamuth/5tet_d.html#asimchomsaia

Hans Straub

Very cool, Hans. I had trouble following the math symbols a bit, but I
understand affine tranformations and basic plane geometry, so it all became
clear. The formal 'Z5' notation on your web page kind of threw me at first,
though.

Mood-wise, the piece sounded like it would be great for a documentary film
about Chinese urban life! (the 5-tet effect, obviously)

Best,
Aaron.

On Saturday 09 July 2005 8:05 am, hstraub64 wrote:
> Some time ago, I presented a pre-version of "Asîmchômsaia", a piece of
> mine in 5-tet and 5/8-rhythm. Now, after a lot of polishing (phew!), I
> think the piece is sort of finished.
>
> Music is available here:
>
> http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hsstraub/musik/asimchomsaia.mp3
>
> The main idea is that the 5-tet tuning and the 5/8-rhythm gives me a
> far-going symmetry between pitch and time, making it possible (and,
> due to the limitedness of the basic set, not too expensive) to use
> general 2-dimensional transformations in the motif-variation process.
>
> Details on the "making of" can be found here:
>
> http://home.datacomm.ch/straub/mamuth/5tet_d.html#asimchomsaia
>
> Hans Straub
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

Quite nice Hans. I really like how it really keeps one attention.
it seems that at time you lose the counter melody that starts to come in about half way, which i think might come out more if you shifted it to a different part of the beat where the attack might come out more.
just a thought. you could change the timbre , but i like it
hstraub64 wrote:

>Some time ago, I presented a pre-version of "As�mch�msaia", a piece of
>mine in 5-tet and 5/8-rhythm. Now, after a lot of polishing (phew!), I
>think the piece is sort of finished.
>
>Music is available here:
>
>http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hsstraub/musik/asimchomsaia.mp3
>
>The main idea is that the 5-tet tuning and the 5/8-rhythm gives me a
>far-going symmetry between pitch and time, making it possible (and,
>due to the limitedness of the basic set, not too expensive) to use
>general 2-dimensional transformations in the motif-variation process.
>
>Details on the "making of" can be found here:
>
>http://home.datacomm.ch/straub/mamuth/5tet_d.html#asimchomsaia
>
>Hans Straub
>
>
>
>
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
> >
>
>
> >

--
Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main.html> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Krister Johnson
<aaron@a...> wrote:
>
>
> Very cool, Hans. I had trouble following the math symbols a bit, but
> I understand affine tranformations and basic plane geometry, so it
> all became clear. The formal 'Z5' notation on your web page kind of
> threw me at first, though.
>

Hmm, yes, that came from the notation I had used in my thesis.
Thanks for your comment!

> Mood-wise, the piece sounded like it would be great for a
> documentary film about Chinese urban life! (the 5-tet effect,
> obviously)
>

Yes - and the koto sound, IMHO at least as important.
Hehe, my wife commented already that it sounded like in a chinese
restaurant... But then, it is not really chinese, after all, and I
guess somebody familiar with chinese music would hear that at once...

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...>
wrote:
> Quite nice Hans. I really like how it really keeps one attention.

Thank you!

> it seems that at time you lose the counter melody that starts to
> come in about half way, which i think might come out more if you
> shifted it to a different part of the beat where the attack might
> come out more.
> just a thought. you could change the timbre , but i like it
>

Hmm, not quite sure what you mean here. Which counter melody - that of
the horn, or before?

yes i think you would call it a horn

hstraub64 wrote:

>--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...>
>wrote:
> >
>>Quite nice Hans. I really like how it really keeps one attention.
>> >>
>
>Thank you! >
> >
>> it seems that at time you lose the counter melody that starts to >>come in about half way, which i think might come out more if you >>shifted it to a different part of the beat where the attack might >>come out more.
>> just a thought. you could change the timbre , but i like it
>> >> >>
>
>Hmm, not quite sure what you mean here. Which counter melody - that of
>the horn, or before?
>
>
>
>
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
> >
>
>
> >

--
Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main.html> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "hstraub64" <hstraub64@t...>
wrote:

Hans

It's in the "Worth listening to." category.

Stephen Szpak

> Some time ago, I presented a pre-version of "Asîmchômsaia", a
piece of
> mine in 5-tet and 5/8-rhythm. Now, after a lot of polishing
(phew!), I
> think the piece is sort of finished.
>
> Music is available here:
>
> http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hsstraub/musik/asimchomsaia.mp3
>
> The main idea is that the 5-tet tuning and the 5/8-rhythm gives me
a
> far-going symmetry between pitch and time, making it possible (and,
> due to the limitedness of the basic set, not too expensive) to use
> general 2-dimensional transformations in the motif-variation
process.
>
> Details on the "making of" can be found here:
>
> http://home.datacomm.ch/straub/mamuth/5tet_d.html#asimchomsaia
>
> Hans Straub

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "stephenszpak"
<stephen_szpak@h...> wrote:
>
> Hans
>
> It's in the "Worth listening to." category.
>

Thank you!

Hmm, OK. I'll think about that. Thanks again!

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...>
wrote:
> yes i think you would call it a horn
>
> >
> >> it seems that at time you lose the counter melody that starts to
> >>come in about half way, which i think might come out more if you
> >>shifted it to a different part of the beat where the attack might
> >>come out more.
> >>
> >
> >Hmm, not quite sure what you mean here. Which counter melody - that of
> >the horn, or before?
> >