Microtonal opera by Manfred Stahnke

I'd like to announce the premiere of the microtonal opera "Orpheus Kristall
- an Opera in Two Media", a cooperative project initiated by the Munich
Biennale for Contemporary Opera and Siemens Art Program. Orpheus Kristall
was written in JI, and notated in 36 TET.

The opera with music by Hamburg composer Manfred Stahnke also features
quintet.net, a real-time Internet performance environment invented by Georg
Hajdu which allows remote players to participate in the performance via MIDI
streaming (it uses MIDI cents instead of key numbers, though). Quintet.net
has a built-in resolution of 53 TET and uses harmonic filters to tune to the
live orchestra in real time.

The performances will be on May 3rd at 8 PM CET, on May 4th at 10 PM CET,
and on May 6th at 8 PM CET.

The remote players are:
Anne La Berge, Erhard Hirt at the Waag in Amsterdam
Marko Ciciliani, Barbara Lüneburg at STEIM in Amsterdam
Mari Kimura, Hans Tammen at Harverstworks in New York
Chris Brown, Roberto Morales and Matt Wright at CNMAT in Berkeley.

The Internet audience can follow the Internet performance using a Listener
application which also has a chat feature (Macintosh only).

In addition, there'll be a RealVideo stream which will give a picture of the
entire production (not only the Internet part).

For further information on quintet.net including the download of the
quintet.net Listener application:

http://www.quintet-net.org

To visit the fascinating web site designed by Bettina Westerheide:

http://www.orpheuskristall.com

For further information on Orpheus Kristall and the other opera productions
featured by the Munich Biennale:

http://www.spielmotor.de/

For more information on the Siemens Art Program and it's current projects:

http://w4.siemens.de/artsprogram/de/html/programm/index.htm

To connect to the RealVideo Stream (with kind support by Salmacis, Munich):

http://www.salmacis.com/real.html

Enjoy!!

Georg Hajdu

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--- In tuning@y..., Georg Hajdu <HAJDU@U...> wrote:

> I'd like to announce the premiere of the microtonal opera "Orpheus Kristall
> - an Opera in Two Media", a cooperative project initiated by the Munich
> Biennale for Contemporary Opera and Siemens Art Program. Orpheus Kristall
> was written in JI, and notated in 36 TET.

Sounds like a possibility if you are not using much 5 (e.g slendric), but not simply notate it as JI?

Georg Hajdu wrote:

> I'd like to announce the premiere of the microtonal opera "Orpheus Kristall
> - an Opera in Two Media", a cooperative project initiated by the Munich
> Biennale for Contemporary Opera and Siemens Art Program. Orpheus Kristall
> was written in JI, and notated in 36 TET.
>
> The opera with music by Hamburg composer Manfred Stahnke also features
> quintet.net, a real-time Internet performance environment invented by Georg
> Hajdu which allows remote players to participate in the performance via MIDI
> streaming (it uses MIDI cents instead of key numbers, though). Quintet.net
> has a built-in resolution of 53 TET and uses harmonic filters to tune to the
> live orchestra in real time.
>
> The performances will be on May 3rd at 8 PM CET, on May 4th at 10 PM CET,
> and on May 6th at 8 PM CET.

Trivial question. Where's the UK relative to CET? Same or an hour difference? Thanks.

Kind Regards

In-Reply-To: <3CCD7FE8.C52C9149@which.net>
Alison Monteith wrote:

> Trivial question. Where's the UK relative to CET? Same or an hour
> difference? Thanks.

An hour difference. Which, it being summertime (really!) means 2 hours
ahead of GMT.

Graham

graham@microtonal.co.uk wrote:

> In-Reply-To: <3CCD7FE8.C52C9149@which.net>
> Alison Monteith wrote:
>
> > Trivial question. Where's the UK relative to CET? Same or an hour
> > difference? Thanks.
>
> An hour difference. Which, it being summertime (really!) means 2 hours
> ahead of GMT.
>
> Graham

Many thanks Graham - yeah - summertime indeed.

Kind Regards

I missed the broadcast - didn't realise you had to have a fully loaded Mac to participate - time
to upgrade. The sites and concept looked very interesting. Maybe we (collective we) will do
something like this some day; a polymicrotonal wall of sound tweaked in real time by dozens of
list members.

Best wishes