Re: new piece

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns
<daniel_anthony_stearns@y...>" <daniel_anthony_stearns@y...> wrote:

> Should anyone be interested, I have a big experimental rock-fusion
> type piece uploaded for the first time called Not Even Love:

By the way, I got my Christmas present for both you and Dante
returned to sender. If either of you wants your Christmas 2002
CD, let me know. Also, if I left someone off who wants one, they
should chime in.

That piece is skrawnky, a total winner. Thanks for putting it there.
Jay
At 03:34 AM 2/16/03 -0000, you wrote:
>Should anyone be interested, I have a big experimental rock-fusion
>type piece uploaded for the first time called Not Even Love:
>
>http://www.zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/
>
>NEL combines a bunch of different tunings and has quite a few solos--
>including extended fretless (with a whammy pedal) and 20-tone equal
>temperament solos.
>
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Here's a new piece I've written for alto sax and recorded computer music.

It's in what I'd call "CJI" -- Crystallizing Just Intonation -- the sax
plays in 12-tet, but the chords in the recorded part "crystallize" around
the sax notes in Just sonorities. It's 13-limit for the most part.
though I don't really think about limits in this context. . .for a given
swath of the recorded part, I'd write, for example, "Around G# as 5/4
of E" . . so then I'd use 12-tet G#, and B would be 6/5, D, 7/5, etc. etc.
In the music, the sax would typically be holding or emphasizing a G# at
this point. then a measure or two later, the sax would move on, and
the recorded part would crystallize around a different 12-tet pitch. A
few sections are "atonal" more or less, so are just in straight-ahead
12-tet.

Anyways. . . .

This is a MIDI demo with a "piano" sound doing the sax, as I can't deal
with MIDI sax timbres:

http://music.columbia.edu/~chris/sounds/w.sax.mp3

The thing will hopefully be performed live in NYC in September.

C B