How to Program (fwd)

I took this off the double reed list as pertinent to the issue of
programming. For AFMM concerts, programming is as important for me as
composing an individual piece. As other concert forums open up to
microtonal music there will be less need to have exclusive concerts for
alternative tuning. For those that have never heard an AFMM concert, I
understand it is difficult to imagine how it all fits together, but it
does. Listeners modulate dimensionally by both tuning and style. AFMM
concerts are experiential and not merely the some of their parts. :)

Johnny Reinhard
Director
American Festival of Microtonal Music
318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW
New York, New York 10021 USA
(212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495
reinhard@ios.com

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:06:04 -0600
From: SHARON TRENT
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: How to Program

How to Select a Program is an interesting topic, and one I've never seen
addressed. I asked the question on another list and got not one single
response. I'll ask a few questions with the goal of continuing the thread.

When selecting a program:

1. Do you avoid or try to find pieces of similar style, nationality,
or school of composition?

2. Do you usually include an ensemble piece?

3. How frequently do you include an unaccompanied work?

4. Is it important to you to have works representative of each period?

5. How much consideration do you give to endurance when you select music?

6. How often do you present works that are new to you compared to works
that you have played before?

7. How often do you perform music by live composers?


The above is only the beginning...

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I use pitch bend. A tempered halftone is 4096 units. The following
table is one I use to tune my midi file. One piece I did was the
Paganini Caprice #1, you can find it via ftp kahless.isca.uiowa.edu
in /pub/algo-comp/LinusLiu.

I don't know if the midi equipment I have can resolve in what I
command it, though. I still have tons of problems with my midi setup.
But I do not have the problem about slides because of delayed
pitchWheel messages. They either skip altogether.

KEY A-maj C-maj D-maj E-maj F-maj G-maj Bb-maj Eb-maj Ab-maj

SO 80e 720 0a 160 1520 800 1440 1360 1280
ME -560 80e -640 -480 880 160e 800 720 640
DO 0a 640 -80d 80e 1440 720 1360 1280 1200
LA -640 0a -720 -560 800 80e 720 640 560
FA -80d 560 -160g 0a 1360 640 1280 1200 1120
RE -720 -80d -800 -640 720 0a 640 560 480
TE -1360 -720 -1440 -1280 80e -640 0a -80d -160g
SO -800 -160G -880 -720 640 -80d 560 480 400
ME -1440 -800 -1520 -1360 0a -720 -80d -160g -240
DO -880 -240 -960 -800 560 -160g 480 400 320


Regards,
Linus Liu.

>Friends,
>
> I find it hard to believe that not one of you knows anything about
>the specifics of using MIDI pitch bend for tuning purposes. Can't someone
>post some information on this subject?
>
>
> -andrew


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Andrew Souter sez:
> I find it hard to believe that not one of you knows anything about
> the specifics of using MIDI pitch bend for tuning purposes. Can't someone
> post some information on this subject?

Interesting... There's been quite a bit of messages about that recently.
I'd have to guess we have different ideas about what constitiutes "specifics".
Perhaps you could clarify further what sort of information you're looking for.


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Andrew's question made me doubt about the relation between pitch bend
numbers and frequency. I think though that the MIDI spec does not prescribe
a logarithmic relation. But it might well be that it's logarithmic by
convention for most synths and samplers. Maybe you can ask the organisation
that maintains the MIDI standard, the MMA. The e-mail address is
mma@earthlink.net. You can always do an experiment of course, send some
different pitch bend numbers from a computer and measure the frequency,
using a frequency counter, tuning forks, a software sound package or
whatever other means.

Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl

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