New Music on SoundClick by Prent Rodgers

Tuners,
I've put a new piece up on my SoundClick web site. It's based on a set
of major and minor chords in the Partch tonality diamond.

To hear the music, go to http://www.soundclick.com/PrentRodgers and
listen or download *Wasatch Front*.

The piece is scored for a woodwind quintet, and has a sound in the
style of Darius Milhaud or Hindemith. It also takes advantage of some
fancy doppler effects to highlight very small pitch change glissandi,
like 35:36, 120:121, and 80:81. This is from some work by John
Chowning circa 1971. He imitated moving sounds with doppler shift
driven pitch changes. I start with the pitch changes and add glissandi
and volume envelopes to suggest woodwind players flying around the
room. I suggest headphones to hear the effects. The pitch changes are
required by the chord progression, but they become more rational by
virtue of the doppler effects. Or they might...

There are complete details up on my web site at
http://prodgers13.home.comcast.net . Click on Liner Notes and look at
Wasatch Front, or go to it directly at
http://prodgers13.home.comcast.net/liner/WasatchFront.htm .

Prent Rodgers
Mercer Island, WA

Extraordinary! Thanks for sharing that, Prent, and keep up the
fantastic work! (I'm sure there'll be more to say on
MakeMicroMusic . . .)

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers" <prentrodgers@c...>
wrote:
> Tuners,
> I've put a new piece up on my SoundClick web site. It's based on a
set
> of major and minor chords in the Partch tonality diamond.
>
> To hear the music, go to http://www.soundclick.com/PrentRodgers and
> listen or download *Wasatch Front*.
>
> The piece is scored for a woodwind quintet, and has a sound in the
> style of Darius Milhaud or Hindemith. It also takes advantage of
some
> fancy doppler effects to highlight very small pitch change
glissandi,
> like 35:36, 120:121, and 80:81. This is from some work by John
> Chowning circa 1971. He imitated moving sounds with doppler shift
> driven pitch changes. I start with the pitch changes and add
glissandi
> and volume envelopes to suggest woodwind players flying around the
> room. I suggest headphones to hear the effects. The pitch changes
are
> required by the chord progression, but they become more rational by
> virtue of the doppler effects. Or they might...
>
> There are complete details up on my web site at
> http://prodgers13.home.comcast.net . Click on Liner Notes and look
at
> Wasatch Front, or go to it directly at
> http://prodgers13.home.comcast.net/liner/WasatchFront.htm .
>
> Prent Rodgers
> Mercer Island, WA