TUNING digest 1428

Benjamin Tubb wrote:

>I need a table of Pitchbend to 12tet Cents equivalents [snip]
>If anyone knows that these values are indeed logarithmic in respect to a
>certain _applied formula_, I would prefer to know that formula _most of all_
of
>course.

Here's a warning: not all MIDI instruments respond in the same way.
SoundBlaster cards, in particular, have a very strange correlation between
pitchbend data and the ammount of bend applied.

I usually find each pitchbend that I need by comparing the pitchbent note with
the tuning table-tuned note simultaneously, and adjust by ear. It's a pain
but it insures that the pitches are as close as possible to exactly right.

Funny you should mention microtonal flutes. A friend from the Csound
list,Javier Ruiz, just sent me the foll. bit of info.

>Drew, if you are interested in microtonality you should check the work of
>Robert Dick. This man has compiled dozens of positions to get microtonal
>divisions on the flute. A friend of mine (just returned from Amsterdam)
>showed me those techniques last saturday. It was amazing! and I am back to
>write instrumental music.

I see that there is an album by R. Dick listed in the mcLaren/Op de Coul
CD list at Mills.

Later,
Drew

There are many dedicated microtonal flutists throughout the world. Robert
Dick plays unsystemitized microtones, neither just nor equal.

Andrew Bolotowsky of the AFMM Ensemble has played in a myriad of tunings
on flute (AFMM flutist). Stefani Starin plays dead on JI flute with
Newband, which she co-directs. John Fonville, Ann LeBerge, Bruce Gremo,
Pierre Yves Artaud, and others with whom I am as yet unfamiliar.

Three are numerous fingering charts for flute since the mid-eighteenth
century. Howell's early flute work featured a 31-TET fingering chart in
1974 (The Avant-Garde Flute, University of California Press).

There was a tough period when Bartolozzi's _New Sounds For Woodwinds_
printed quartertone fingerings for flute that didn't work. Toru Takemitsu
was really burned by this when he wrote _Voice_ and other flute works
utilizing Bartolozzi's fingerings.

Open hole flute or closed hole flute? No contest, Robert Dick has the
only open hole bass flute - I believe - in the world. (He had it made.)
Robert is now living in Zurich, Switzerland. He has a private press
called Mutliple Breath. I learned to circular breathe using his book for
circular breathing on the flute. Couldn't have done it without him. Very
straight forward. He says his style of microtonal composition stems from
his years as a Yale composition student working primarily with tape music,
cutting and splicing.

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@idt.net
http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/AFMM