Primes

Hi all-

I recently dug up some of my old Csound stuff and found files for a piece I
did years ago based on prime numbers. I regenerated part and even found a
partial graphic score of the section. So, I stuck it up on my website with a
real audio file of the section. The graph seem to be only a partial
representation of what is heard but it shows how the piece is constructed:
The pitches are prime multiples of a fundamental low pitch (64hz.) and prime
divisors of a high pitch 8 octave higher, giving an otonal and utonal series
(although I hadn't heard of those things back then) The partials of the
sounds are prime numbered partials. The durations have to do with the
appearance of primes in the number series: a note on "11" lasts 2 units
(seconds or prime multiples/divisors of seconds) whereas a note on 23 lasts
6 units. I seem to have used primes up to 101 (I cheated and counted 1 as a
prime). Check it out if you have a spare moment (the RA file doesn't sound
as crisp as the original wav. file, but 4MB was too much to upload, as
opposed to 200k or so)

http://www.users.interport.net/~dante/primes.html

peace,

dante

ps- this is the first time I've put sound on my website so let me know if
you have any problems. Thanks!

"Rosati" <dante@pop.interport.net> writes:

> Hi all-
>
> I recently dug up some of my old Csound stuff and found files for a piece I
> did years ago based on prime numbers.

<snip>

> ps- this is the first time I've put sound on my website so let me know if
> you have any problems. Thanks!

I just love any tuning that reaches up or down
the harmonic series. Glenn Branca, La Monte Young, Ezra Simms,
Horatiu Radulescu come to mind. Although I haven't heard the
Tuning List CD, I have checked out the Real Audio excerpts
on John Starret's site and Kaleidophon by Carter Scholz in
harmonic series tuning (1st 128 tones) just tickles my ears,
just like your piece does.

The Real Audio is downloading as a file instead of
streaming audio, if that's any help. I'd realy like
to hear the whole thing. How long is this piece?

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Dante
I as well enjoyed your excerpt.
onward
pat

David Beardsley wrote:

> From: David Beardsley <xouoxno@virtulink.com>
>
> "Rosati" <dante@pop.interport.net> writes:
>
> > Hi all-
> >
> > I recently dug up some of my old Csound stuff and found files for a piece I
> > did years ago based on prime numbers.
>
> <snip>
>
> > ps- this is the first time I've put sound on my website so let me know if
> > you have any problems. Thanks!
>
> I just love any tuning that reaches up or down
> the harmonic series. Glenn Branca, La Monte Young, Ezra Simms,
> Horatiu Radulescu come to mind. Although I haven't heard the
> Tuning List CD, I have checked out the Real Audio excerpts
> on John Starret's site and Kaleidophon by Carter Scholz in
> harmonic series tuning (1st 128 tones) just tickles my ears,
> just like your piece does.
>
> The Real Audio is downloading as a file instead of
> streaming audio, if that's any help. I'd realy like
> to hear the whole thing. How long is this piece?
>
> --
> * D a v i d B e a r d s l e y
> * xouoxno@virtulink.com
> *
> * J u x t a p o s i t i o n E z i n e
> * M E L A v i r t u a l d r e a m house monitor
> *
> * http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm
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>From: David Beardsley <xouoxno@virtulink.com>

>I just love any tuning that reaches up or down
>the harmonic series. Glenn Branca, La Monte Young, Ezra Simms,
>Horatiu Radulescu come to mind. Although I haven't heard the
>Tuning List CD, I have checked out the Real Audio excerpts
>on John Starret's site and Kaleidophon by Carter Scholz in
>harmonic series tuning (1st 128 tones) just tickles my ears,
>just like your piece does.

I've checked out the excerpts and I liked Carter's piece alot too. I liked
Young's installation too, I guess I have a soft spot in my heart for the
harmonic series and JI and less interest in the multitude of ET temperaments
(though 12tet comes in handy sometimes :-) )
>
>The Real Audio is downloading as a file instead of
>streaming audio, if that's any help.
I noticed that. when I encoded it there was an option to make it
downloadable. but I don't think I checked it, so I'm not sure why its doing
that. If anyone knows about that stuff I'd appreciate some advice.

I'd realy like
>to hear the whole thing. How long is this piece?

There are two more sections, its probably 5 minutes all together. I might
try generating the whole thing and seeing how big the file is, I don't want
to clog up my disk space at my server cause I plan to put up a bunch of
soundfiles of my new JI guitar and my harmonic sitar, etc. If you or anyone
else uses Csound and is interested, I could send you the orc and sco files
and you can generate it yourself and hear the better sound quality.

regards,

dante