Re: guide pitches in live performance

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed & Alita Morrison

>Each wore a single earphone, which was tied into a console
operated by Stockhausen, which played the sounds each player
was supposed to reproduce;

I seem to remember Joe Maneri once talking about a concert
of Ezra Simms' music were the performers were being fed the
(precise) pitches through headphones as well...

Dan

> I seem to remember Joe Maneri once talking about a
> concert of Ezra Simms' music were the performers
> were being fed the (precise) pitches through
> headphones as well...

That wouldn't surprise me at all - Ezra's harmony
can be fiendishly complex.

His basic scale is 37-(prime-)limit, and he writes
upper harmonies that stem from summation tones of
the lower notes in the chord, so sometimes these
involve even higher identities.

Then when he modulates, he expects performers to
play in *keys* that are related by 11/8 and 13/8
to the "tonic".

Some of his pieces are for live instruments with
pre-recorded tape, the tape having a JI realization
of its part of the score, the performers reading
72-Eq and expected to adjust by ear.

-monz
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