TUNINGS AND NEW INSTRUMENTS: a Symposium, London Metropolitan University, Monday 5 March 2007

TUNINGS AND NEW INSTRUMENTS: a Symposium for Composers, Performers,
Instrument Designers and Acousticians; Monday 5 March 2007

The Music and Technology Research Group of London Metropolitan University is pleased to invite all who are interested in new directions in music to an informal symposium.

Time: 10.00 to 5.00 on Monday 5 March 2007.

Place: London Metropolitan University: Rooms 101 and 102, 41 Commercial
Road, London E1 1LA (5 minutes walk from Aldgate East Underground
Station).

The Symposium is open to the public and is free of charge, but
registration in advance is strongly preferred: please notify Lewis Jones
<l.jones@londonmet.ac.uk>, to whom any enquiries may also be sent.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

10.00 Registration, Coffee and Welcome

10.30 Wim Hoogewerf (guitar): The Guitar in Sixteenth-tone Tuning

11.30 Jose Antonio Martin Salinas (London Metropolitan University) and Lee Ferguson (percussion): The 96-tone Equal Temperament Conic Bellophone and Piccolo Bellophone

12.30 LUNCH HOUR

1.30 Aaron Andrew Hunt (Eastern Illinois University, Charleston): H-Pi
Instruments:
The Tuning Box microtonal MIDI keyboard converter
The Tonal Plexus microtonal keyboard synthesizer
MegaScore microtonal notation and sequencing software

2.30 Jacob Barton (Houston): The Udderbot: a New Slide Woodwind

3.30 Donald Bousted and Steve Altoft (trumpet): The Microtonal Trumpet

4.30 Concluding discussion.

This event follows and complements the UK MICROFEST 2, 2-4 March, at
Riverhouse, Manor Road, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey KT12 2PF. For details
please see the website (www.microtonalprojects.co.uk), where a the full
pdf programme is available.

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Lewis Jones
London Metropolitan University
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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Lewis Jones <l.jones@...> wrote:

> 11.30 Jose Antonio Martin Salinas (London Metropolitan University)
and
> Lee Ferguson (percussion): The 96-tone Equal Temperament Conic
> Bellophone and Piccolo Bellophone

Maybe Aaron or Jacob can explain the great unanswered question when
they get back--why 96?

> 2.30 Jacob Barton (Houston): The Udderbot: a New Slide Woodwind

Too cool. Maybe we need a chamber work for udderbot and strings in 19-
et?

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Lewis Jones <l.jones@> wrote:
>
> > 11.30 Jose Antonio Martin Salinas (London Metropolitan University)
> and
> > Lee Ferguson (percussion): The 96-tone Equal Temperament Conic
> > Bellophone and Piccolo Bellophone
>
> Maybe Aaron or Jacob can explain the great unanswered question when
> they get back--why 96?
>
> > 2.30 Jacob Barton (Houston): The Udderbot: a New Slide Woodwind
>
> Too cool. Maybe we need a chamber work for udderbot and strings in 19-
> et?

You write it by mid-April, we'll play it!

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jacob" <jbarton@...> wrote:

> You write it by mid-April, we'll play it!

Really? What tuning systems would people be willing to tackle, I wonder?