New Music

I've uploaded a new piece of music to : -

http://www.microtonal.org/mp3/ThrowStones.mp3

The full title is "Hannah Throwing Stones"

My intention is that the listener experience these massive chordal
structures moving slowly through time and space.

There's a short description on the music page but I'll put up an analysis on
my own site and eventually a score for anyone who might wish to read it
through with a view to performance.

Apologies for not mentioning Scala in my set-up.

P.S. Disclaimer - I started composing in JI before John Adams.

Sincerely
a.m.

Wow!

Alison-

Very nice piece! I like the moody atmosphere, and the way you revel in the
beauty of the JI beating...I also listened to to "Lament for Lou" for the
first time, and thought it was very moving...good stuff...your music is
moody, very visual, suitable for some Scandanavian independent film or
something-and I mean that in the best way!(some might react negatively to
being told that their music is suitable for film)

Good stuff! More!

Best,
AKJ

On Thursday 06 November 2003 04:32 am, Alison Monteith wrote:
> I've uploaded a new piece of music to : -
>
> http://www.microtonal.org/mp3/ThrowStones.mp3
>
> The full title is "Hannah Throwing Stones"
>
> My intention is that the listener experience these massive chordal
> structures moving slowly through time and space.
>
> There's a short description on the music page but I'll put up an analysis
> on my own site and eventually a score for anyone who might wish to read it
> through with a view to performance.
>
> Apologies for not mentioning Scala in my set-up.
>
>
>
> P.S. Disclaimer - I started composing in JI before John Adams.
>
>
> Sincerely
> a.m.
>
>
>
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>

Hello Alison!
This is really really wonderful Alison. I am on my fourth repeat as i type this and wish that
it would go on for an hour. If it did, it would be one of those pieces i would listen to every day
for months. I have yet to look at see what is going on completely. One of the best musical
excerpts,i have hearsd in these parts.

>
> From: Alison Monteith <alison.monteith3@which.net>
>
> I've uploaded a new piece of music to : -
>
> http://www.microtonal.org/mp3/ThrowStones.mp3
>
> The full title is "Hannah Throwing Stones"
>
> My intention is that the listener experience these massive chordal
> structures moving slowly through time and space.
>
> There's a short description on the music page but I'll put up an analysis on
> my own site and eventually a score for anyone who might wish to read it
> through with a view to performance.
>
> Apologies for not mentioning Scala in my set-up.
>
> P.S. Disclaimer - I started composing in JI before John Adams.
>
> Sincerely
> a.m.
>

-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
http://www.anaphoria.com
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU 88.9 FM WED 8-9PM PST

Yeah, Alison, the piece is really gorgeous. I envy your technical ability in getting that smooth yet changing harmonic continuum. If you don't mind, I'll burn it to CD and play it for my tuning class next semester.

Brava!

Kyle

Thanks for the encouraging words. The raw score and some background can be
found at http://homepages.which.net/~alison.monteith3/HTS.htm.

Sincerely
a.m.

on 7/11/03 04:03, Kyle Gann at kgann@earthlink.net wrote:

> Yeah, Alison, the piece is really gorgeous. I envy your technical
> ability in getting that smooth yet changing harmonic continuum. If
> you don't mind, I'll burn it to CD and play it for my tuning class
> next semester.
>
> Brava!
>
> Kyle

Thanks Kyle. Feel free to use the music. If you like I can send an audio CD
by snail mail with the original wave files of this and another finished
piece which are of much better sound quality.

Sincerely
a.m.

>

It seems the only way out of this would be an orchestra dedicated to playing nothing but JI. Which would be something as revolutionary as the Scratch orchestra :).
To Have tuned percussion instruments helps quite a bit in getting others to play in a different tuning. One has the pitch right there, and you just ask them to match it.
Lou decided to just use a different orchestra, the gamelan,but doesn't one of his symphonies have a JI section with strings matching one of his zithers ?
The history of Western instruments though is that their timbre evolved out of the the tuning that was used. If we had stuck to meantone, i believe the instruments we have today would sound very different. No one expects or proposed to change the direction of a Gagaku Orchestra which like the case would be just a futile. As Alison and yourself show, a third direction would be toward electronics.

>
> From: Kyle Gann <kgann@earthlink.net>
>
> True or not true, it reinforces my long-held opinion that nothing in
> my profession could be more Quixotic, more masochistic, than writing
> an alternative-tuning orchestra piece. I once heard a very
> well-intentioned, nobly rehearsed performance of Ben Johnston's JI
> Symphony, and the out-of-tuneness was pitiful.
>

-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
http://www.anaphoria.com
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU 88.9 FM WED 8-9PM PST

I remember something about a Lou Harrison orchestra piece that he originally
wrote in JI later being done in ET because otherwise it wouldn't get
performed?

Dante

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kraig grady [mailto:kraiggrady@anaphoria.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:55 PM
> To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [tuning] Re: New Music
>
>
> >
>
> It seems the only way out of this would be an orchestra
> dedicated to playing nothing but JI. Which would be something as
> revolutionary as the Scratch orchestra :).
> To Have tuned percussion instruments helps quite a bit in
> getting others to play in a different tuning. One has the pitch
> right there, and you just ask them to match it.
> Lou decided to just use a different orchestra, the gamelan,but
> doesn't one of his symphonies have a JI section with strings
> matching one of his zithers ?
> The history of Western instruments though is that their timbre
> evolved out of the the tuning that was used. If we had stuck to
> meantone, i believe the instruments we have today would sound
> very different. No one expects or proposed to change the
> direction of a Gagaku Orchestra which like the case would be just
> a futile. As Alison and yourself show, a third direction would be
> toward electronics.
>
> >
> > From: Kyle Gann <kgann@earthlink.net>
> >
> > True or not true, it reinforces my long-held opinion that nothing in
> > my profession could be more Quixotic, more masochistic, than writing
> > an alternative-tuning orchestra piece. I once heard a very
> > well-intentioned, nobly rehearsed performance of Ben Johnston's JI
> > Symphony, and the out-of-tuneness was pitiful.
> >
>
> -- -Kraig Grady
> North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
> http://www.anaphoria.com
> The Wandering Medicine Show
> KXLU 88.9 FM WED 8-9PM PST
>
>
>
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On Friday 07 November 2003 12:55 pm, kraig grady wrote:
> It seems the only way out of this would be an orchestra dedicated to
> playing nothing but JI. Which would be something as revolutionary as the
> Scratch orchestra :). To Have tuned percussion instruments helps quite a
> bit in getting others to play in a different tuning. One has the pitch
> right there, and you just ask them to match it. Lou decided to just use a
> different orchestra, the gamelan,but doesn't one of his symphonies have a
> JI section with strings matching one of his zithers ? The history of
> Western instruments though is that their timbre evolved out of the the
> tuning that was used. If we had stuck to meantone, i believe the
> instruments we have today would sound very different. No one expects or
> proposed to change the direction of a Gagaku Orchestra which like the case
> would be just a futile. As Alison and yourself show, a third direction
> would be toward electronics.

Yes, and I've mentioned this before, IMO, this is the quickest and cheapest
way to start the revolution NOW!

-AKJ.