new music: Storm by X. J. Scott

Greetings to my fellow microtonalists, friends and
groupies!

I liked the Reperio tuning I used on the last piece I
posted and decided to use it again...

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Imagine sitting atop a sand dune on a beach in North
Carolina. You can see a lighthouse to the north painted
in an exotic pattern. It is overcast and a bit chilly
as a storm gathers at sea. It progresses and you watch
it, entranced. Lightning scampers across the horizon.
The air ionizes and smells sweet. From time to time you
wonder about getting back but you know you belong here
at this moment. Puffs of wind tease you as rain flirts
down occasionally, withdrawing whenever you start to
retreat.

Piano tuned according to method of Reperio.

Apologies for the low fidelity 96kbps mp3 encoding;
this web account has file size limitations.

Storm.mp3 (4'05.0", 2,937,799 bytes)
(c) 19 July 2001 by X. J. Scott

at: http://geocities.com/nonoctave/

Reactions, tirades and publicly aired seething hate
mail about the music welcome.

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I added links to details about the tuning used and the
tunings used in the other pieces for those who have an
interest.

- Jeff

XJ,

Interesting. Improv?

Do you have a list of the tuning of the notes in cents from 1/1, e.g.:
100,100,100,100,100...
would be 12-tET. I saw reperio.html but that doesn't do it for me... Or
are the successive notes actually 120,218,207,183 etc?

Question... Is that a real piano physically tuned; or an electronic
instrument? The outdoorsy sound effects are added, or was it a physical
instrument & mic?

Thanks,

Rick

Jeff wrote:

> Storm.mp3 (4'05.0", 2,937,799 bytes)
> (c) 19 July 2001 by X. J. Scott
>
> at: http://geocities.com/nonoctave/
>
> Reactions, tirades and publicly aired seething hate
> mail about the music welcome.

That's not fair -- asking for tirades about something that's good.
Why can't somebody put up something really bad and then ask for
honest opinions? This isn't as good as Sweet Kuvasz, but not much
is, so even hate mail about how your music isn't improving wouldn't
seethe in a particularly enjoyable way.

Oh, yes, holy.mp3 is a sawtooth wave. I could give them up any time
I want, honest. Any ideas about the timbre for the broken talisman?

Graham