Blackjack scale makes the "big time"

Check out this week's New Yorker for the Composers Concordance
listing. The Blackjack scale makes a header...

J. Pehrson

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:

> Check out this week's New Yorker for the Composers Concordance
> listing. The Blackjack scale makes a header...
>
> J. Pehrson

so, how was the performance? i'm sure it was very musical, given dan
barrett's evident emotive prowess (as i witnessed during the
rehearsal) -- but did the "justness" of the tuning come off as
intended? not necessarily an important question, perhaps there was no
one in the audience who cared about that aspect anyway . . .

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "wallyesterpaulrus"

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<wallyesterpaulrus@y...> wrote:
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@r...>
wrote:
>
> > Check out this week's New Yorker for the Composers Concordance
> > listing. The Blackjack scale makes a header...
> >
> > J. Pehrson
>
> so, how was the performance? i'm sure it was very musical, given
dan barrett's evident emotive prowess (as i witnessed during the
> rehearsal) --

***Hi Paul,

Thanks for asking. The performance came off amazingly. I would say
that Dan had achieved about 60% at the final rehearsal you saw of the
way he performed it during the concert. He *really* came alive with
it. It was close to astonishing. I was so glad to be able to get a
performer like this who is *so* completely dedicated to contemporary
music.

but did the "justness" of the tuning come off as
> intended? not necessarily an important question, perhaps there was
no one in the audience who cared about that aspect anyway . . .

***It's true that most of the comments of the general audience that I
heard were of the nature "well I thought the piece was terrific and
pretty much *forgot* about the tuning part..."

However, in speaking with some audience members later, they *did*
notice some of the strange acoustical effects, such as the "fusion"
of different chord notes into a "one pitch" sensation and such like.

Certainly, *I* heard these effects, and I was on stage turning pages
and not even out in front where I could hear the speakers better.

I guess somebody said the piece sounded "trippy" which indicated that
he at least perceived that something "unusual" was going on...

Thanks for all the help, by the way, at the rehearsal. It made it
much more "authoritative" to have the inventor of the scale there
during the final rehearsal.

Joseph