New piece online

I have put a recording of my piece that was premiered at last spring's MicroFest here in
southern California online here:

http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/metalloid.mp3

(About 7 MB I think.) It is called Metalloid and is for 2 keyboards, 2 (retuned) electric
guitars, fretless electric bass, clarinet, and saxophone. Here is the tuning (12 pitches
starting on A):

1/1
49/48
9/8
7/6
9/7
21/16
49/36
3/2
49/32
12/7
7/4
27/14

I hope you enjoy it.

Really nice piece, Bill. I love the gamelan flavor (and the other flavors as well).

- Dave

bill_alves wrote:
> I have put a recording of my piece that was premiered at last spring's MicroFest here in > southern California online here:
> > http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/metalloid.mp3
> > (About 7 MB I think.) It is called Metalloid and is for 2 keyboards, 2 (retuned) electric > guitars, fretless electric bass, clarinet, and saxophone. Here is the tuning (12 pitches > starting on A):
> > 1/1
> 49/48
> 9/8
> 7/6
> 9/7
> 21/16
> 49/36
> 3/2
> 49/32
> 12/7
> 7/4
> 27/14
> > I hope you enjoy it.

Nice!

So was this ever played with real live players, or did you do a
pre-recorded version thru speakers at the concert?

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "bill_alves" <ALVES@...> wrote:
>
> I have put a recording of my piece that was premiered at last
spring's MicroFest here in
> southern California online here:
>
> http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/metalloid.mp3
>
> (About 7 MB I think.) It is called Metalloid and is for 2 keyboards,
2 (retuned) electric
> guitars, fretless electric bass, clarinet, and saxophone. Here is
the tuning (12 pitches
> starting on A):
>
> 1/1
> 49/48
> 9/8
> 7/6
> 9/7
> 21/16
> 49/36
> 3/2
> 49/32
> 12/7
> 7/4
> 27/14
>
> I hope you enjoy it.
>

I must agree with the others, it is a very nice piece! How was it produced?

> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "bill_alves" <ALVES@...> wrote:
>>
>> I have put a recording of my piece that was premiered at last
> spring's MicroFest here in
>> southern California online here:
>>
>> http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/metalloid.mp3
>>
>> (About 7 MB I think.) It is called Metalloid and is for 2 keyboards,
> 2 (retuned) electric
>> guitars, fretless electric bass, clarinet, and saxophone. Here is
> the tuning (12 pitches
>> starting on A):
>>
>> 1/1
>> 49/48
>> 9/8
>> 7/6
>> 9/7
>> 21/16
>> 49/36
>> 3/2
>> 49/32
>> 12/7
>> 7/4
>> 27/14
>>
>> I hope you enjoy it.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Krister Johnson" <aaron@...>
wrote:
>
> Nice!
>
> So was this ever played with real live players, or did you do a
> pre-recorded version thru speakers at the concert?
>

Aaron - that is a live recording!

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <carl@...> wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Krister Johnson" <aaron@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Nice!
> >
> > So was this ever played with real live players, or did you do a
> > pre-recorded version thru speakers at the concert?
> >
>
> Aaron - that is a live recording!

Funny---sounded like samples or something to me...I'll have to hear it
again...also the stereo imaging was dramatic--I didn't get a sense of
'room'...Bill, did you run the live audio thru a mixer with hard panning?

Hi dear bill

very nice music and I loved it very much , our microtonal heart are very
near to each other.

Shaahin mohajeri , Tombak player and microtonalist

My web site <http://240edo.googlepages.com/>

My farsi page in harmonytalk <http://www.harmonytalk.com/mohajeri>

Thank you for those who responded to my piece. This was a studio recording of the piece
that was performed live at MicroFest; however, all the parts were performed live and in real
time. The keyboards were electronic, of course, but none of the other instruments were
sample based. I placed the parts where I did in stereo space in order to help listeners
distinguish the different interlocking parts. Though we did this to some degree in the live
performance, I agree that the effect is different in this recording.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "bill_alves" <ALVES@...> wrote:
>
> Thank you for those who responded to my piece. This was a
> studio recording of the piece that was performed live at
> MicroFest; however, all the parts were performed live and
> in real time. The keyboards were electronic, of course, but
> none of the other instruments were sample based. I placed
> the parts where I did in stereo space in order to help
> listeners distinguish the different interlocking parts.
> Though we did this to some degree in the live performance,
> I agree that the effect is different in this recording.

You did a good job. Neat sound. And I think I'll dig up
_Terrain_. It was always one of my favorites, and I'll bet
it still holds up.

-Carl