monz - Tonescape presentation on Ben Johnston music, at Microfest on 4/15

Hello all,

I haven't been keeping up with any of the tuning lists lately,
but since the date is coming up soon, i just wanted to post
another announcement about this:

I'll be using Tonescape to give a presentation on the music
and music-theory of Ben Johnston, as part of the Microfest 2006
symposium dedicated to Ben's work as tribute for his 80th birthday.

http://www.microfest.org/microfest20063.html

date: this Saturday, April 15, 2006
time: starts at 12:00 noon
place: Boone Hall, Music Department, Scripps College,
Dartmouth and 10th, Claremont, CA

Below is the abstract of my presentation:

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Ben Johnston's multi-dimensional extended-JI,
modeled in Tonescape software

by Joe Monzo

ABSTRACT

Ben Johnston devised a form of extended-JI (just-intonation)
which represents pitches as perfectly-tuned small-integer
frequency ratios. His earliest JI compositions used an
extended 1-dimensional pythagorean 3-limit system (i.e.,
ratios using prime-factors of only 2 and 3), then he progressed
to an expanded version of "classic" 5-limit JI, then in subsequent
works to higher and higher prime-limits. His most recent
compositions use all prime-factors up to 31. In Johnston's
music, as in most music, prime-factor 2 is considered to be
the "equivalence-interval". Tonescape software models
tuning systems as iterations of generators, with each generator
in its own dimension. Tonescape can model tuning systems
of up to 7 dimensions, thus, leaving prime-factor 2 out of the
Lattice diagram, in 7 dimensions it can model 19-limit JI.
Tonescape shows a Pitch-Height score in real time, and
also highlights the notes being playing on the Lattice in real time.
Some movements from Johnston's string quartets are presented
as example Tonescape files.

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software

Great work monz! But why does tonescape has a limit of 7 generators?

Cordially,
Oz.

----- Original Message -----
From: "monz" <monz@tonalsoft.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 11 Nisan 2006 Sal� 21:24
Subject: [tuning] monz - Tonescape presentation on Ben Johnston music, at
Microfest on 4/15

> Hello all,
>
>
> I haven't been keeping up with any of the tuning lists lately,
> but since the date is coming up soon, i just wanted to post
> another announcement about this:
>
> I'll be using Tonescape to give a presentation on the music
> and music-theory of Ben Johnston, as part of the Microfest 2006
> symposium dedicated to Ben's work as tribute for his 80th birthday.
>
> http://www.microfest.org/microfest20063.html
>
> date: this Saturday, April 15, 2006
> time: starts at 12:00 noon
> place: Boone Hall, Music Department, Scripps College,
> Dartmouth and 10th, Claremont, CA
>
> Below is the abstract of my presentation:
>
> -----------
>
> Ben Johnston's multi-dimensional extended-JI,
> modeled in Tonescape software
>
> by Joe Monzo
>
> ABSTRACT
>
> Ben Johnston devised a form of extended-JI (just-intonation)
> which represents pitches as perfectly-tuned small-integer
> frequency ratios. His earliest JI compositions used an
> extended 1-dimensional pythagorean 3-limit system (i.e.,
> ratios using prime-factors of only 2 and 3), then he progressed
> to an expanded version of "classic" 5-limit JI, then in subsequent
> works to higher and higher prime-limits. His most recent
> compositions use all prime-factors up to 31. In Johnston's
> music, as in most music, prime-factor 2 is considered to be
> the "equivalence-interval". Tonescape software models
> tuning systems as iterations of generators, with each generator
> in its own dimension. Tonescape can model tuning systems
> of up to 7 dimensions, thus, leaving prime-factor 2 out of the
> Lattice diagram, in 7 dimensions it can model 19-limit JI.
> Tonescape shows a Pitch-Height score in real time, and
> also highlights the notes being playing on the Lattice in real time.
> Some movements from Johnston's string quartets are presented
> as example Tonescape files.
>
>
>
> -monz
> http://tonalsoft.com
> Tonescape microtonal music software
>
>

Jonathan Glasier's account in Microbeat 7:

http://tonalsoft.com/pub/microbeat/beat.2006-04-23.00-00.aspx

On April 15th Joe Monzo, Francisco Oryzan, and I went to the Claremont
Colleges campuses for the MicroFest 2006 festivities, commemorating
the 80th birthday of microtonal composer Ben Johnston. He was not
able to attend the symposium in his honor, but was available through a
video conferencing hookup and gave a talk about his life and
"revisionist" compositional style expanding the tonal resources
through his extended just intonation notation. His notation has become
for many, the standard of the recent just intonation composition work
by contemporary just composers. Joe Monzo is working on the inclusion
of this notation in the Beta release of Tonescape coming out later
this year.

There were presentations of several lectures during the day including
Johnston's publisher Sylvia Smith, Craig Grady, Joe Monzo, Bill Alves,
Kyle Gann, John Schneider, and T.J. Troy. All of the presentations
focused on different aspects of Johnston's work, and several were
about pieces that were later performed at that evening's performance.
The conference was also attended by 1/1 editor and Just Intonation
Network workhorse David Doty, and long time microtonal supporter and
Xenharmonikon editor John Chalmers. The concert included solo pieces
on contra-bass, piano, clarinet and guitar/voice, and duets on violin
and piano (mallets on the piano structure).

Sonic Arts Gallery has recently compiled four new "Studio Logs" which
were available for conference-goers. These two to three hour MP3's
represent a selection of the Electronic Microtonal Improvisation work
of Jonathan Glasier and Brink McGoogy during the first three months of
2006. They are a soft mix down from ADAT to CD and transferred to the
MP3 format. They are available through Sonic Arts (P.O. Box 620027,
San Diego 92162) for ten dollars ($10) each plus two dollars shipping.

Microfest continues through the end of May with performances of the
music of Lou Harrison, Craig Grady and Harry Partch. For more
information on the entire MicroFest series, please visit the Web site
at www.microfest.org and listen to KPFK 90.7 every Thursday in May for
special previews of MicroFest 2006.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> I haven't been keeping up with any of the tuning lists lately,
> but since the date is coming up soon, i just wanted to post
> another announcement about this:
>
> I'll be using Tonescape to give a presentation on the music
> and music-theory of Ben Johnston, as part of the Microfest 2006
> symposium dedicated to Ben's work as tribute for his 80th birthday.
>
> http://www.microfest.org/microfest20063.html
>
> date: this Saturday, April 15, 2006
> time: starts at 12:00 noon
> place: Boone Hall, Music Department, Scripps College,
> Dartmouth and 10th, Claremont, CA
>
> Below is the abstract of my presentation:
>
> -----------
>
> Ben Johnston's multi-dimensional extended-JI,
> modeled in Tonescape software
>
> by Joe Monzo
>
> ABSTRACT
>
> Ben Johnston devised a form of extended-JI (just-intonation)
> which represents pitches as perfectly-tuned small-integer
> frequency ratios. His earliest JI compositions used an
> extended 1-dimensional pythagorean 3-limit system (i.e.,
> ratios using prime-factors of only 2 and 3), then he progressed
> to an expanded version of "classic" 5-limit JI, then in subsequent
> works to higher and higher prime-limits. His most recent
> compositions use all prime-factors up to 31. In Johnston's
> music, as in most music, prime-factor 2 is considered to be
> the "equivalence-interval". Tonescape software models
> tuning systems as iterations of generators, with each generator
> in its own dimension. Tonescape can model tuning systems
> of up to 7 dimensions, thus, leaving prime-factor 2 out of the
> Lattice diagram, in 7 dimensions it can model 19-limit JI.
> Tonescape shows a Pitch-Height score in real time, and
> also highlights the notes being playing on the Lattice in real time.
> Some movements from Johnston's string quartets are presented
> as example Tonescape files.
>
>

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...> wrote:
>
> Jonathan Glasier's account in Microbeat 7:

[snip]

> There were presentations of several lectures during the day including
> Johnston's publisher Sylvia Smith, Craig Grady...

Let's at least get the participants correct: *Kraig* Grady.

Cheers,
Jon

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "kylegann1955" <kgann@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Monz,
>
> I am very sorry I missed the whole thing, and especially
> your presentation. (Damn! I've never heard that 8th Quartet!)

Gene Ward Smith made some ogg files of my Tonescape realization
of the 8th Quartet excerpt -- i posted my favorite one here:

/tuning/files/monz/johnston_fluid.ogg

This is the entire first section from the 2nd movement.
It's otonal ... the middle section is utonal, then there's
a varied recap of this one.

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software

> Gene Ward Smith made some ogg files of my Tonescape realization
> of the 8th Quartet excerpt -- i posted my favorite one here:
>
>
/tuning/files/monz/johnston_
fluid.ogg
>
> This is the entire first section from the 2nd movement.
> It's otonal ... the middle section is utonal, then there's
> a varied recap of this one.

Wow, that's AMAZING!

-Carl