Blackjack tuning -- work in progress

I've been playing with the Blackjack subset of 72-TET recently, and I'm
starting to get a feel for some of the melodic and harmonic possibilities.
Here's a sneak preview of a piece that I'm working on (it's about a 350K
download). If I like the end result, I'll put it up on the Tuning Punks
page.

ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/music/jack.mp3

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--- In tuning@y..., Herman Miller <hmiller@I...> wrote:

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> I've been playing with the Blackjack subset of 72-TET recently, and
I'm starting to get a feel for some of the melodic and harmonic
possibilities.

I should say! Congrats on a great start. I've always enjoyed your
music, but this piece seems to even have a greater sophistication
than they "generally" do... Could it be the scale? It seems quite
incredibly fraught with possibilities... to *me* anyway.

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Joseph Pehrson

Joe,

Herman usually makes very Blackwood-like use of the tuning resources
he uses -- i.e., extended or warped melodic and tonal use in the
conventional tradition. Plus he's got a good ear for timbre and
orchestrational colors too (much better than Blackwood in that regard
I think), so if it ain't GM (and even his GM ain't half bad) it always
sounds good as well.

When the whole "miracle" thread started I thought Herman was one of
the guys on this list who might make (good) use of its resources in
something like the way Paul and Dave K. framed the deal.

Anyway, you might want to check out some of his other stuff again with
that in mind.

--Dan Stearns