Just to introduce myself

Hello all,

I am completely new to this list, as I am to the world of tuning, just
intonation, and divisions of an octave other than 12. I won't make this post
a long and boring description of myself, just a quick overview... I am 15
years old, and have started composing around the age of 12. My main
instrument is the classical guitar, which I have been studying for about 6
years now. I have also been involved in (and am still involved in one)
non-classical musical projects. I also play keyboards, electric and acoustic
guitar, and write songs from time to time...

I have been introduced to the world of microtonality and just intonation
only recently, when I started taking composition lessons. And, quite
frankly, the more I learn, the more fascinated I am by this music. The
biggest surprise for me is that this music can be very pleasant to the ear
and sometimes just downright beautiful, whereas I've always tended to
associate microtonality with repulsive noises and unpleasant sounds. My
current (and first one of the kind) project is a 24-TET piece for sextet in
three short movements.

I am looking forward to being an active member of this list. ;o)

/ Nikita

WELCOME NIKITA!

Dive in. Lot's of good people here.

Ask (questions), and you shall receive.

Best of luck with your compositions!

George Zelenz

Nikita Urazbaev wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am completely new to this list, as I am to the world of tuning, just
> intonation, and divisions of an octave other than 12. I won't make this post
> a long and boring description of myself, just a quick overview... I am 15
> years old, and have started composing around the age of 12. My main
> instrument is the classical guitar, which I have been studying for about 6
> years now. I have also been involved in (and am still involved in one)
> non-classical musical projects. I also play keyboards, electric and acoustic
> guitar, and write songs from time to time...
>
> I have been introduced to the world of microtonality and just intonation
> only recently, when I started taking composition lessons. And, quite
> frankly, the more I learn, the more fascinated I am by this music. The
> biggest surprise for me is that this music can be very pleasant to the ear
> and sometimes just downright beautiful, whereas I've always tended to
> associate microtonality with repulsive noises and unpleasant sounds. My
> current (and first one of the kind) project is a 24-TET piece for sextet in
> three short movements.
>
> I am looking forward to being an active member of this list. ;o)
>
> / Nikita
>
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Nikita Urazbaev wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am completely new to this list, as I am to the world of tuning, just
> intonation, and divisions of an octave other than 12. I won't make this post
> a long and boring description of myself, just a quick overview... I am 15
> years old, and have started composing around the age of 12. My main
> instrument is the classical guitar, which I have been studying for about 6
> years now. I have also been involved in (and am still involved in one)
> non-classical musical projects. I also play keyboards, electric and acoustic
> guitar, and write songs from time to time...
>
> I have been introduced to the world of microtonality and just intonation
> only recently, when I started taking composition lessons. And, quite
> frankly, the more I learn, the more fascinated I am by this music. The
> biggest surprise for me is that this music can be very pleasant to the ear
> and sometimes just downright beautiful, whereas I've always tended to
> associate microtonality with repulsive noises and unpleasant sounds. My
> current (and first one of the kind) project is a 24-TET piece for sextet in
> three short movements.
>
> I am looking forward to being an active member of this list. ;o)
>

Welcome Nikita

an excellent introduction to playing microtonal music is to have a classical guitar refretted to
22 instead of 12 divisions of the octave. It might even become a lifelong friend. I've found the
possibilities for composition to be very exciting. I started in the world of music on guitar about
the same age as you and I wish I had known about microtonality and just intonation then.

Best Wishes.

Just wanted to say hello to you, Nikita, and make you feel welcome on
this list. Since you're 15, you're already an 'elder', as we've had
13-year-olds making important contributions here! I'm very glad to
hear that you've been introduced to microtonality through your
composition lessons.

>The
> biggest surprise for me is that this music can be very pleasant to
the ear
> and sometimes just downright beautiful

Which pieces are you referring to?

>My
> current (and first one of the kind) project is a 24-TET piece for
sextet in
> three short movements.

Good luck writing in 24-tET -- it's a hard tuning to find pleasant
sounds in. It represents a few harmonic-series chords well, such as
C, G, c, d, f-quarter-tone-high (which approximates 4:6:8:9:11). If
you're not 'allergic to dissonance', though . . . have you heard
Ives' or Wychnegrasky's music for two pianos a quarter-tone apart?

on 6/6/01 4:44 PM, Paul Erlich at paul@stretch-music.com wrote:

> Which pieces are you referring to?

Well, like I said, I've just discovered this world, but the three most
beautiful pieces microtonal pieces I've heard till now are:

1. Claude Vivier's "Lonely Child"

2. Claude Vivier's "Zipangu"

3. Vincent-Olivier Gagnon's microtonal studies for 3 saxophones. (They're
really very very beautiful)

> If you're not 'allergic to dissonance', though . . .

I'm not; and 24-tET seems like a good starting point.

/ Nikita Urazbaev

on 6/6/01 4:44 PM, Paul Erlich at paul@stretch-music.com wrote:

> Which pieces are you referring to?

I wrote:

>>Well, like I said, I've just discovered this world, but the three most
>>beautiful pieces microtonal pieces I've heard till now are:

Correction: started to discover this world.

/ Nikita Urazbaev

--- In tuning@y..., Nikita Urazbaev <urz@m...> wrote:
> on 6/6/01 4:44 PM, Paul Erlich at paul@s... wrote:
>
> > Which pieces are you referring to?
>
> Well, like I said, I've just discovered this world, but the three
most
> beautiful pieces microtonal pieces I've heard till now are:
>
> 1. Claude Vivier's "Lonely Child"
>
> 2. Claude Vivier's "Zipangu"
>
> 3. Vincent-Olivier Gagnon's microtonal studies for 3 saxophones.
(They're
> really very very beautiful)

Where can I hear these pieces?

>> beautiful pieces microtonal pieces I've heard till now are:
>>
>> 1. Claude Vivier's "Lonely Child"
>>
>> 2. Claude Vivier's "Zipangu"
>>
>> 3. Vincent-Olivier Gagnon's microtonal studies for 3 saxophones.
>(They're
>> really very very beautiful)
>
>Where can I hear these pieces?
>

I can make you hear those pieces ! Claude Vivier is a composer who was from
Montreal. He has written great vocal music using DEO-24 (eheh, Monz, this
is my personnal french translation of EDO ;o) it means division egale de
l'octave and sounds greater ;o)) ehehe

For those interested in hearing french-influenced spectral music I make free
publicity for a wonderful CD named Claude Vivier by the Sch�nberg Ensemble,
"edited" by Philips...

The other is a DEO-48 saxophone study of mine... it sounds quiet well, but
need furthur explorations. As you may seem to observe, I try to make out
temperaments quiet livable ! :o) I also have my piano piece in DEO-96...
some of you already have heard it.

Making my mail no more longer !!! :o)

Vincent-Olivier.

On 6/8/01 9:14 AM, "Vog" <dunael@arobas.net> wrote:

> He has written great vocal music using DEO-24

DE - - - - - O !

DE - E - E - E - E - O... in 24. hmm.

Vincent-Olivier wrote,

<<I also have my piano piece in DEO-96... some of you already have
heard it.>>

Where?

--Dan Stearns