monz: swing/bebop tune in 13-edo

Hi all,

I was going to wait until this was more like a finished
piece before posting it, but since Aaron posted his 13-edo
piece (which i haven't gotten around to listening to yet)
and there's been discussion about it, i figured i'd go ahead
and post what i have of it so far:

/tuning/files/monz/2006.02.16_bebop_13-edo.mid

My idea was that since this jazz style generally makes no
reference whatsoever to anything resembling 5-limit JI,
and neither does 13-edo, then perhaps this was a marriage
waiting to happen.

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

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I was going to wait until this was more like a finished
> piece before posting it, but since Aaron posted his 13-edo
> piece (which i haven't gotten around to listening to yet)
> and there's been discussion about it, i figured i'd go ahead
> and post what i have of it so far:

Is the attraction of 13 that you can simply ignore harmony?

Ouch, my ears hurt. Its kinda funky though.

----- Original Message -----
From: "monz" <monz@tonalsoft.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 18 Nisan 2007 �ar�amba 0:26
Subject: [tuning] monz: swing/bebop tune in 13-edo

> Hi all,
>
>
> I was going to wait until this was more like a finished
> piece before posting it, but since Aaron posted his 13-edo
> piece (which i haven't gotten around to listening to yet)
> and there's been discussion about it, i figured i'd go ahead
> and post what i have of it so far:
>
>
/tuning/files/monz/2006.02.16_beb
op_13-edo.mid
>
> My idea was that since this jazz style generally makes no
> reference whatsoever to anything resembling 5-limit JI,
> and neither does 13-edo, then perhaps this was a marriage
> waiting to happen.
>
>
> -monz
> http://tonalsoft.com
> Tonescape microtonal music software
>
>

Gene wrote:

"Is the attraction of 13 that you can simply ignore harmony?"
rofwl! I don't know if you intended that comment to be funny Gene, but
it was anyway. 11-et and 13-et have highly individual tonalities, and
don't do well in harmony/counterpoint derived from a 5-limit tuning.
Any 11 or 13 harmony/counterpoint needs to develop out of those
individualities, I think....

Man, does that MIDI swing! I dig it, monz. Let's hear some more.

Aaron Hunt
H-Pi Instruments

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I was going to wait until this was more like a finished
> piece before posting it, but since Aaron posted his 13-edo
> piece (which i haven't gotten around to listening to yet)
> and there's been discussion about it, i figured i'd go ahead
> and post what i have of it so far:
>
> /tuning/files/monz/
2006.02.16_bebop_13-edo.mid
>
> My idea was that since this jazz style generally makes no
> reference whatsoever to anything resembling 5-limit JI,
> and neither does 13-edo, then perhaps this was a marriage
> waiting to happen.
>
>
> -monz
> http://tonalsoft.com
> Tonescape microtonal music software
>

Great tune, Monz! -C.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I was going to wait until this was more like a finished
> piece before posting it, but since Aaron posted his 13-edo
> piece (which i haven't gotten around to listening to yet)
> and there's been discussion about it, i figured i'd go ahead
> and post what i have of it so far:
//
> My idea was that since this jazz style generally makes no
> reference whatsoever to anything resembling 5-limit JI,
> and neither does 13-edo, then perhaps this was a marriage
> waiting to happen.
>
> -monz
> http://tonalsoft.com
> Tonescape microtonal music software

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "J.Smith" <jsmith9624@...> wrote:
>
> Gene wrote:
>
> > "Is the attraction of 13 that you can simply ignore harmony?"
>
>
> rofwl!
>
> I don't know if you intended that comment to be
> funny Gene, but it was anyway. 11-et and 13-et have highly
> individual tonalities, and don't do well in harmony/counterpoint
> derived from a 5-limit tuning.
>
> Any 11 or 13 harmony/counterpoint needs to develop out of those
> individualities, I think....

Aside from the weird meters, the thing i had the most fun
with in composing this fragment was those bluesy piano riffs.
Sure, the chords in 13-edo sound strange, but those blues riffs
sound just fine to me (no pun intended).

I wish i had gotten around to really finishing this one ...

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