Groundbass in F for meantone organ

...as in "1/4 comma"...basically this is very diatonic sunny music. I
used the wonderful physical modelling organ for Linux, Aeolus. You'd
swear you were in an old baroque chapel listening to an 18th century
restored organ somewhere in Europe.

I wrote this piece back in 1997, for two flutes and a synth bass on my
old trusty Korg X5DR, in the key of C (low note going down to "G,,,").
Since I wanted to recast for pipe organ using Aeolus, and organ pedals
don't have "G,,,", I transposed the pedal parts up a 4th, and the two
upper parts down a 5th. So, it's now in F.

The melodic material was written, as I remember, by hand editing,
adding to (in particular, the scale passages were all me), and
discarding material from the output of an algorithmic script I had
written way back, using a chaotic sine equation mapped to pitch (I
believe it was x'= sin(x*c), where 'c' is the chaotic parameter
argument.) I think it illustrates well how humans can be made
suprising by machines, and machines can be made interesting by humans.

I am (re)dedicating this music to my amazing almost 7 months old
daughter Annika, who keeps me an optimist.

Best,
Aaron.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Krister Johnson" <aaron@...> wrote:
>
> ...as in "1/4 comma"...basically this is very diatonic sunny music. I
> used the wonderful physical modelling organ for Linux, Aeolus. You'd
> swear you were in an old baroque chapel listening to an 18th century
> restored organ somewhere in Europe.
>
> I wrote this piece back in 1997, for two flutes and a synth bass on my
> old trusty Korg X5DR, in the key of C (low note going down to "G,,,").
> Since I wanted to recast for pipe organ using Aeolus, and organ pedals
> don't have "G,,,", I transposed the pedal parts up a 4th, and the two
> upper parts down a 5th. So, it's now in F.
>
> The melodic material was written, as I remember, by hand editing,
> adding to (in particular, the scale passages were all me), and
> discarding material from the output of an algorithmic script I had
> written way back, using a chaotic sine equation mapped to pitch (I
> believe it was x'= sin(x*c), where 'c' is the chaotic parameter
> argument.) I think it illustrates well how humans can be made
> suprising by machines, and machines can be made interesting by humans.
>
> I am (re)dedicating this music to my amazing almost 7 months old
> daughter Annika, who keeps me an optimist.
>
> Best,
> Aaron.
>

I forgot to mention---

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

Ah, it sounds so baroque! Marvelous...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Krister Johnson" <aaron@dividebypi.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 01 Aral�k 2006 Cuma 8:38
Subject: [tuning] Re: Groundbass in F for meantone organ

> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Krister Johnson" <aaron@...> wrote:
> >
> > ...as in "1/4 comma"...basically this is very diatonic sunny music. I
> > used the wonderful physical modelling organ for Linux, Aeolus. You'd
> > swear you were in an old baroque chapel listening to an 18th century
> > restored organ somewhere in Europe.
> >
> > I wrote this piece back in 1997, for two flutes and a synth bass on my
> > old trusty Korg X5DR, in the key of C (low note going down to "G,,,").
> > Since I wanted to recast for pipe organ using Aeolus, and organ pedals
> > don't have "G,,,", I transposed the pedal parts up a 4th, and the two
> > upper parts down a 5th. So, it's now in F.
> >
> > The melodic material was written, as I remember, by hand editing,
> > adding to (in particular, the scale passages were all me), and
> > discarding material from the output of an algorithmic script I had
> > written way back, using a chaotic sine equation mapped to pitch (I
> > believe it was x'= sin(x*c), where 'c' is the chaotic parameter
> > argument.) I think it illustrates well how humans can be made
> > suprising by machines, and machines can be made interesting by humans.
> >
> > I am (re)dedicating this music to my amazing almost 7 months old
> > daughter Annika, who keeps me an optimist.
> >
> > Best,
> > Aaron.
> >
>
> I forgot to mention---
>
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/GroundbassInF.ogg
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/GroundbassInF.mp3
>
>