Mizarian Ritual Cricket Dance (incomplete)

Here's a thing I wrote back in 1997. Or started writing, at least. I got so far and never finished it.

http://teamouse.googlepages.com/cricket-dance.mp3

Since I'm running out of space on my Comcast account, I opened up a page on the Google Pages site (http://teamouse.googlepages.com/home).

I thought of this piece since it's so blatantly inspired by gamelan music, and would make a good test for improving the gamelan instruments that I've been trying to work out. It's not easy getting something to sound like a piece of metal struck by hammers. You can get inharmonic timbres easily with FM or ring modulation, but imitating a specific inharmonic timbre is a real trick.

Speaking of gamelan, here's an interesting find I ran across:

http://www.gsj.org/gsj/docs/PNM-final.pdf

"Balinese Kebyar Music Breaks the Five-Tone Barrier: New Composition for Seven-Tone Gamelan". Exciting stuff! In particular, look at the chart on page 11, and the step sizes for the mode "baro": 159, 258, 292, 185, 306. Note that father[5] has 3 large steps of 291.10 cents and 2 small steps of 156.29 cents, and the same pattern of S-L-L-S-L. Baro isn't a very common mode, but at least there's more than a little similarity to the main scale used in "Yulegu Island".

But the Mizarian Cricket Dance doesn't use anything like father temperament (which was unknown in 1997) or even a traditional pelog scale. In fact, it's in 17-ET.

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Delicious. Do continue.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Herman Miller" <hmiller@IO.COM>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 20 Mart 2007 Sal� 4:18
Subject: [tuning] Mizarian Ritual Cricket Dance (incomplete)

> Here's a thing I wrote back in 1997. Or started writing, at least. I got
> so far and never finished it.
>
> http://teamouse.googlepages.com/cricket-dance.mp3
>

SNIP