Boogie Pie in 12 of 23-tet

Hey all-

My latest piece (links below) is inspired by the discussion on MMM about
player-piano music. I have to say I've come around to seeing Jon's point
about cheap-toylike digital piano timbres for Nancarrow-ripoffs. My quote to
Jacob regarding his wonderful set of variations was:

>My one critique is that the elegant Mozart theme is not suited to the bad
>digital piano timbre, although the variations that follow are, so once the
>variations came in I got into it

...and I second Jon's notion that the Mozart theme was a bit to
MIDI-quantified and stiff to my taste.

Anyway, Jacob has inspired me to explore 'cheap timbres' further, and on my
Korg X5DR tuned to a 12 of 23-tet subset that Paul Erlich sent me and calls
'Ripple':
> Ripple [12]:
> > step sizes: 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2
> > result: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 13 15 17 19 21
....I came up with a stride/boogie Nancarrow ripoff, 'Boogie Pie', that I'm
*quite* fond of and pleased with. Ogg and MP3 versions (the Ogg version is
nicer sounding, but let's not start that thread again):

http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/boogie_pie.ogg
http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/boogie_pie.mp3

Comments, praise, criticisms welcome....enjoy!!

Cheers,
--
Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.dividebypi.com

>Hey all-
>
>My latest piece (links below) is inspired by the discussion on MMM about
>player-piano music. I have to say I've come around to seeing Jon's point
>about cheap-toylike digital piano timbres for Nancarrow-ripoffs. My quote to
>Jacob regarding his wonderful set of variations was:
>
>>My one critique is that the elegant Mozart theme is not suited to the bad
>>digital piano timbre, although the variations that follow are, so once the
>>variations came in I got into it
>
>...and I second Jon's notion that the Mozart theme was a bit to
>MIDI-quantified and stiff to my taste.
>
>Anyway, Jacob has inspired me to explore 'cheap timbres' further, and on my
>Korg X5DR tuned to a 12 of 23-tet subset that Paul Erlich sent me and calls
>'Ripple':
>> Ripple [12]:
>> > step sizes: 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2
>> > result: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 13 15 17 19 21
>....I came up with a stride/boogie Nancarrow ripoff, 'Boogie Pie', that I'm
>*quite* fond of and pleased with. Ogg and MP3 versions (the Ogg version is
>nicer sounding, but let's not start that thread again):
>
>http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/boogie_pie.ogg
>http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/boogie_pie.mp3
>
>Comments, praise, criticisms welcome....enjoy!!

Like, radical, man!

-Carl

>My latest piece (links below) is inspired by the discussion on MMM about
>player-piano music. I have to say I've come around to seeing Jon's point
>about cheap-toylike digital piano timbres for Nancarrow-ripoffs. My quote
>to Jacob regarding his wonderful set of variations was:
>
>>My one critique is that the elegant Mozart theme is not suited to the
>>bad digital piano timbre, although the variations that follow are, so
>>once the variations came in I got into it
>
>...and I second Jon's notion that the Mozart theme was a bit to
>MIDI-quantified and stiff to my taste.
>
>Anyway, Jacob has inspired me to explore 'cheap timbres' further, and
>on my Korg X5DR tuned to a 12 of 23-tet subset that Paul Erlich sent me
>and calls 'Ripple':
>> Ripple [12]:
>> > step sizes: 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2
>> > result: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 13 15 17 19 21
>....I came up with a stride/boogie Nancarrow ripoff, 'Boogie Pie', that
>I'm *quite* fond of and pleased with. Ogg and MP3 versions (the Ogg
>version is nicer sounding, but let's not start that thread again):
>
>http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/boogie_pie.ogg
>http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/boogie_pie.mp3
>
>Comments, praise, criticisms welcome....enjoy!!

Say, that's fast work, Aaron.

The honkey-tonk sound is working for you here. Unlike Jon, though, I
don't think it was working for Jacob. Hard to say what the difference
is... is this actually a honkey-tonk patch? Jacob's just sounded
like a 1990-era piano sample, which will probably never sound good to
me in any context, I admit.

-Carl