Microtonal Concert in Paris

Tomorow night (September 22, 19h30 P.M) microtonal concert in Paris!!

Program:

*Harry PARTCH: DECEMBER 42, for voice and adapted guitar

*Pascale CRITON: La ritournelle et le galop, for 96tet guitar

*Patrice GRANADEL: U LAMENTU, for alto flute and 24tet guitar

*Harry PARTCH: Four Lyrics of Li Po, for voice and adapted guitar

*Salvatore SCIARRINO: Canzona di ringraziamento, for solo flute

*Bruce MATHER: Tempranillo, for 36tet guitar (world premiere)

*Harry PARTCH: Barstow, for voice and adapted guitar

Vincent Bouchot, baryton - Am=E9lie Berson, flute - Didier Aschour,=
microtonal
guitars=20

Mairie du 3eme arrondissement de Paris, 2 rue E. Spuller

FREE ENTRANCE



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>I have used MMT with two Yamaha TX81Z's, the Proteus,
>and a Kawai K5m, and I have yet to hear a "blurp" from any style of playing
>whatever.

I can't recall if what Denny played for me - which was certainly an
excellent tool for study - was in fact MMT. But I don't recall having
heard too many large, multitimbral ensembles with legato or slurred (i.e.,
little to no gap between notes) note changes in what Denny showed me. But
that was late at night, so I might be remembering wrong.

The problem is also made more difficult by the fact that at least some
synths, Kurzweils included according to a K2500-user friend of mine,
service everything but note events only on a moderate-frequency interrupt
basis. The result is that you can have an unknown or semirandom amount of
time from note-on to pitch-bend.



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The MIDI Tuning Standard allows 128 notes to be tuned at a time.
If your instrument has multiple tuning tables, there is a SysEx
for switching between them. If that isn't good enough for you,
you'll have to use pitch bends. It means you can only play 15
notes at a time. Funnily enough, I've never heard guitarists
complain about only having 6 strings.

MTS is superb, if you can afford equipment that supports it. It
is more accurate than any acoustic instrument (except maybe for
JI) but less precise if you only get 1 cent steps.

A preliminary look at the EMU/Creative Sound Font 2 standard
shows that it is possible to embed tunings in voice files, in a
memory efficient way. If this is set up before performance,
changing scales simply requires a patch change message. I
intend to write some software to add the tunings to the files.
Unfortunately, it's fundamentally limited to 1 cent steps, but
that's a hell of a lot better than nothing.



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