Re: [tuning] Digest 3480 -- La Sinfonia del Giorno Santo

Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:20:13 -0700
From: Carl Lumma <ekin@lumma.org>
Subject: Re: La Sinfonia del Giorno Santo

>Very interesting. Is the mp3 recording performed
with
>the tuning indicated? How did you perform it?

Yes indeed. Every note in the recording, which is
made in a large midi + sampler configuration, is tuned
by means of pitch wheel controls.

>How did you perform O My Dear Heart? With a vocoder?
No, just choral samples and pitch bend -- and that
recording, which is out of date now, first taught me
that -- surprise -- commercially available
synthesizers and sets of samples are not perfectly
tuned even to equal temperament. The 10-20 cents of
fluctuation can dwarf or exaggerate intentional tuning
changes.

> And what is "supertemperament" (1st WTC prelude)?
A name for the notion that a keyboard rendition can
use mutating intontation like a chorus or string
ensemble. Wonderful as Bach's music is, it might be
that he is to blame for the untuned path down which
music has travelled since.

Guglielmo

www.guglielmomusic.com
www.soundclick.com/guglielmo

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