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> TUNING Digest 751
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> Topics covered in this issue include:
>
> 1) Post from McLaren
> by John Chalmers
> 2) Re: TUNING digest 750
> by John Starrett
> 3) Fame for Microtonal Group!!!!
> by hyperpoodle@mail.sisna.com (Doren Garcia)
>
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> Topic No. 1
>
> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 10:35:04 -0700 (PDT)
> From: John Chalmers
> To: tuning
> Subject: Post from McLaren
> Message-ID:
>
> From: mclaren
> Subject: Jacques Dudon's new JI CD
> --
> Jacques Dudon is a French composer who uses
> patterned glass disks to generate music.
> By spinning the disk and shining a light through
> it onto a photoreceptor, Dudon is able to produce
> periodic waveforms which become audible (when
> amplified through a loudspeaker) as timbres.
> Dudon's instrument has been featured in the journal
> "Experimental Musical Instruments" on many
> occasions.
> By moving a slotted scrim between the light source and
> disk, any by moving from the inner to the outer section of
> the disk & vice versa, he is able to produce series
> of pitches.
> Now Jacques Dudon has come out with a CD of his
> music.
> The CD is called "Lumieres Audibles" (Audible Light)
> and it consists entirely of just intonation music.
> You might think that music created in this way would
> be synthetic-sounding and fairly dull. Just the
> opposite.
> For many years, Dudon has been working with a computer
> to generate exotic patterns for his spinning photo-acoustic
> disks, and he now has a collection of some 500 of 'em.
> Morevoer, he uses fractal patterns to generate fractal
> waveforms along with irregular Walsh-series slotted
> disks which produce extremely evanescent and organic-
> sounding timbres.
> "Lumieres Audibles" is remarkable, both for the quality of
> the timbres and the artistry of the compositions.
> The sounds on this CD are hard to describe. They sound
> akin to some of the more sophisticated timbres that
> can be produced with an anlog synthesizer, but more
> ethereal and in some cases more "digital-sounding" than
> standard analog timbres. In other cases, particularly
> the fractal waveforms, Dudon conjures up timbres whose
> only close relatives are timbres generated by elaborate
> computer algorithms.
> Jacques favors a tuning system which makes his pieces
> sound middle eastern; he also uses drones, drum-like
> timbres, and repeated tabla-type patterns generated from
> interfering and cross-rhythmed slowly rotating glass
> disks. (Dudon apparently uses some disks as "sequencer
> disks" at a slow rate of rotation, and other disks as
> "timbral" disks rotating much faster. By using 6 or
> 7 different photodiodes and rotating disks, along
> with volume pedals to switch between the different
> timbres/sequences, Dudon can produce sonic tapestries
> of remarkable subtlety and sophistication.)
> For more about Dudon's just intonation tunings, see
> the 1/1 article "7 Limit Slendro Mutations," Vol. 8,
> No. 2, 1994.
> This CD is *highly* recommended.
> You can order one of these CDs from Jacques Dudon
> at Atelier d'Exploration Harmonique - les Camails,
> 83.340 LE THORONET - phone number 94.73.87.78
> --mclaren
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Topic No. 2
>
> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:46:34 -0600 (MDT)
> From: John Starrett
> To: tuning
> Subject: Re: TUNING digest 750
> Message-ID:
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen-
> Yes it is true that the dyes are photosensitive, and will degrade
> in direct sunlight, but with proper care they should last between 50 and
> 100 years (according to manufacturer's accelerated aging tests). My
> brother (CDR expert) estimates more conservatively at about 10 years with
> the current media and sloppy handling.
> There are a couple of good CDR drives going for $700 and the
> media price has dropped to $6 per disk. Within a couple of months
> Phillips, Sony and Yamaha drives will all be available for about $700
> (Bob says stay away from the JVC unit). CDR is not as permanent as CD
> with real pits and lands, but a disk with a 10 year lifetime is more than
> adequate for distribution to reviewers and radio stations as a promo
> tool.
> Brother Bob is going to loan me a Pinnacle CDR unit so that I may
> learn to record CDR myself, and I will keep the forum updated on my
> progress in the nerdly art.
> John Starrett
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Topic No. 3
>
> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 16:54:33 -0600
> From: hyperpoodle@mail.sisna.com (Doren Garcia)
> To: tuning
> Subject: Fame for Microtonal Group!!!!
> Message-ID:
>
> I am writing a small piece on this forum to submit to 'WIRED' magazine. I
> do not know if they will publish it. Any Objections?
>
> Doren
> hyperpoodle@sisna.com
>
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> End of TUNING Digest 751
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