Fantasia in 8ET

New (short) piece written over the past two days, uploaded here as a MIDI file:

<http://www.h-pi.com/midi/Fantasia8ET.mid>

Thanks to Igliashon Jones, Daniel Thompson and Dan Stearns for throwing down the 8ET gauntlet on the MMM list. 'Fantasia in 8ET' is my first piece in this tuning. I thought of 8ET basically as two 12ET diminished seventh chords, where the only standard voiceleading is a tritone resolving via large halfsteps, and the resolution must be minor (or diminished). So, the piece is made up of diminished and minor harmonies exclusively. Diminished arpeggios are also featured, which feel natural to play in this tuning because they map as whole tone scales on the keyboard. It took me a while to get acclimated to the 'halfsteps'. Suspensions in 8ET are super-nasty dissonances. Enjoy!

Yours,
Aaron Hunt
H-Pi Instruments

Gruesome, but nice.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Andrew Hunt" <aahunt@h-pi.com>
To: <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com>; <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 23 May�s 2007 �ar�amba 3:13
Subject: [tuning] Fantasia in 8ET

> New (short) piece written over the past two days, uploaded here as a
> MIDI file:
>
> <http://www.h-pi.com/midi/Fantasia8ET.mid>
>
> Thanks to Igliashon Jones, Daniel Thompson and Dan Stearns for throwing
> down the 8ET gauntlet on the MMM list. 'Fantasia in 8ET' is my first
> piece in this tuning. I thought of 8ET basically as two 12ET diminished
> seventh chords, where the only standard voiceleading is a tritone
> resolving via large halfsteps, and the resolution must be minor (or
> diminished). So, the piece is made up of diminished and minor harmonies
> exclusively. Diminished arpeggios are also featured, which feel natural
> to play in this tuning because they map as whole tone scales on the
> keyboard. It took me a while to get acclimated to the 'halfsteps'.
> Suspensions in 8ET are super-nasty dissonances. Enjoy!
>
> Yours,
> Aaron Hunt
> H-Pi Instruments
>
>

Hi aaron
Very nice and I love it too much.

Shaahin Mohajeri

Tombak Player & Researcher , Microtonal Composer

My web site?? ???? ????? ??????

My farsi page in Harmonytalk ???? ??????? ?? ??????? ???

Shaahin Mohajeri in Wikipedia ????? ?????? ??????? ??????? ???? ????

-----Original Message-----
From: tuning@yahoogroups.com [mailto:tuning@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ozan Yarman
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:02 PM
To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tuning] Fantasia in 8ET

Gruesome, but nice.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Andrew Hunt" <aahunt@h-pi.com>
To: <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com>; <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 23 Mayıs 2007 Çarşamba 3:13
Subject: [tuning] Fantasia in 8ET

> New (short) piece written over the past two days, uploaded here as a
> MIDI file:
>
> <http://www.h-pi.com/midi/Fantasia8ET.mid>
>
> Thanks to Igliashon Jones, Daniel Thompson and Dan Stearns for
> throwing down the 8ET gauntlet on the MMM list. 'Fantasia in 8ET' is
> my first piece in this tuning. I thought of 8ET basically as two 12ET
> diminished seventh chords, where the only standard voiceleading is a
> tritone resolving via large halfsteps, and the resolution must be
> minor (or diminished). So, the piece is made up of diminished and
> minor harmonies exclusively. Diminished arpeggios are also featured,
> which feel natural to play in this tuning because they map as whole
> tone scales on the keyboard. It took me a while to get acclimated to the 'halfsteps'.
> Suspensions in 8ET are super-nasty dissonances. Enjoy!
>
> Yours,
> Aaron Hunt
> H-Pi Instruments
>
>

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Thank you Ozan and Shaahin! The dissonance of 8ET is so brutal,
but I too find it pleasurable. I wonder what Plato would have said
about that... well, we can almost guess what he would have said!
A friend of mine called the tuning "truly deviant". I'm still playing
around a bit in 8ET and loving it.

Yours,
Aaron Hunt
H-Pi Instruments

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Mohajeri Shahin" <shahinm@...> wrote:
>
> Hi aaron
> Very nice and I love it too much.
>
>
> Shaahin Mohajeri
>
> Tombak Player & Researcher , Microtonal Composer
>
> My web site?? ???? ????? ??????
>
> My farsi page in Harmonytalk ???? ??????? ?? ??????? ???
>
> Shaahin Mohajeri in Wikipedia ????? ?????? ??????? ??????? ???? ????
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tuning@yahoogroups.com [mailto:tuning@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ozan
Yarman
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:02 PM
> To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [tuning] Fantasia in 8ET
>
> Gruesome, but nice.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Andrew Hunt" <aahunt@...>
> To: <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com>; <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: 23 Mayýs 2007 Çarþamba 3:13
> Subject: [tuning] Fantasia in 8ET
>
>
> > New (short) piece written over the past two days, uploaded here as a
> > MIDI file:
> >
> > <http://www.h-pi.com/midi/Fantasia8ET.mid>
> >
> > Thanks to Igliashon Jones, Daniel Thompson and Dan Stearns for
> > throwing down the 8ET gauntlet on the MMM list. 'Fantasia in 8ET' is
> > my first piece in this tuning. I thought of 8ET basically as two 12ET
> > diminished seventh chords, where the only standard voiceleading is a
> > tritone resolving via large halfsteps, and the resolution must be
> > minor (or diminished). So, the piece is made up of diminished and
> > minor harmonies exclusively. Diminished arpeggios are also featured,
> > which feel natural to play in this tuning because they map as whole
> > tone scales on the keyboard. It took me a while to get acclimated to the 'halfsteps'.
> > Suspensions in 8ET are super-nasty dissonances. Enjoy!
> >
> > Yours,
> > Aaron Hunt
> > H-Pi Instruments
> >
> >
>
>
>
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