acoustic instrument scores

Graham Breed wrote,

<<Because I'm not likely to get performances on acoustic instruments,
so I make do with what I've got. Okay, I do have a few of them around
the house, but I don't pay them much attention.>>

Johnny Reinhard replied,

<<What do you have already composed for acoustic instruments,
Graham?>>

I know this isn't addressed to me, but I took this as a veiled call
for microtonal acoustic instrument scores... is that the case?

--Dan Stearns

Dan Stearns wrote:

> Graham Breed wrote,
>
> <<Because I'm not likely to get performances on acoustic instruments,
> so I make do with what I've got. Okay, I do have a few of them around
> the house, but I don't pay them much attention.>>
>
>
> Johnny Reinhard replied,

Did he really? I don't seem to have that message.

> <<What do you have already composed for acoustic instruments,
> Graham?>>

A movement for string quartet's the main thing, written at the same time
as fuckfeedback. About 3 minutes. I'm sure I could improve on it given
the time and inclination, but I think it is worth listening to as it
stands. I've never got it to work right in MIDI. It also changed its
character through my upgrading the synthesizer as I was writing it.

A few other things that aren't that good and/or never got finished. I
tend not to finish most of what I start, partly because I lose attention,
partly because I learn so much by the time I'm half-way through that I can
do better by starting over.

Ah, it's all coming back now ...

The first serious thing I wrote was a setting of a Walcott poem for voice
and microtonal piano. It's intended for 7-prime limit tuning, but as I
didn't have any microtonal synths back then, I had no idea what it would
sound like. And I never have gone back to it, perhaps I could dig it out
tomorrow. I wrote the music for one verse. It's not supposed to repeat
exactly, but I never got round to writing the whole thing out.

I currently have a piece in a similar state. It's a re-scoring of a Stina
Nordenstam song. I heard it once on the radio, but the EP it's on got
deleted before I caught up with it. So the only way I can hear it is
write it myself using the words I got from the web. I decided it should
really be in a neutral third scale. There's a piano accompaniment I half
have worked out. Every time I try and get it MIDI-ed in, I end up
changing the harmony in line with my greater experience, and then
adjusting the melody to match and ... you know ...

> I know this isn't addressed to me, but I took this as a veiled call
> for microtonal acoustic instrument scores... is that the case?

I don't know, looks more like an invitation to open the door to my dingy
compositional past.

Graham