Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup tuning New Alves work premieres Saturday

This Saturday Feb. 21 at 8:00 PM at Pomona College, the Euphoria
Quartet will premiere a new work of mine for retuned string quartet,
electronics, and video called Stellation. The concert is part of the
College's Ussachevsky festival of electronic music and will be in
Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building, corner of Fourth and College,
Claremont California. Admission is free!

You can see some stills and information about the piece here:
www.billalves.com/stellation.html. The open strings of the quartet
have been retuned as follows:

Violin 1 E: 21/16 E +0 660 hz
A: 7/4 A -2 439 hz
D: 9/8 D -67 283 hz
G: 3/2 G -69 188 hz
Violin 2 E: 81/64 E -63 636 hz
A: 27/16 A -65 424 hz
D: 33/32 D -218 259 hz
G: 11/8 G -220 173 hz
Viola: A: 891/512 A -12 437 hz
D: 297/256 D -14 291 hz
G: 99/64 G -16 194 hz
C: 63/32 C -98 124 hz
Cello: A: 7/4 A -2 220 hz
D: 7/6 D -4 146 hz
G: 3/2 G -69 94 hz
C: 1/1 C -71 63 hz

The concert will also include a wonderful microtonal piece by Tom
Flaherty for dozens of performers spaced around the audience with
metal and glass kitchen bowls and other various household items. I
hope to see you there! (Did I mention it's free?)

🔗chrisvaisvil@...

I can't possibly attend. Is a recording to share possible even if not perfect?

Sounds really good!

Chris
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-----Original Message-----
From: "bill_alves" <ALVES@ORION.AC.HMC.EDU>

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:55:31
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [tuning] New Alves work premieres Saturday

You can see some stills and information about the piece here:
www.billalves.com/stellation.html. The open strings of the quartet
have been retuned as follows:

🔗Carl Lumma <carl@...>

Wow, congrats! Is this your first piece working with a
string quartet?

Will there be a recording? If so, please post.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "bill_alves" <ALVES@...> wrote:
>
> This Saturday Feb. 21 at 8:00 PM at Pomona College, the Euphoria
> Quartet will premiere a new work of mine for retuned string quartet,
> electronics, and video called Stellation. The concert is part of the
> College's Ussachevsky festival of electronic music and will be in
> Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building, corner of Fourth and College,
> Claremont California. Admission is free!
>
> You can see some stills and information about the piece here:
> www.billalves.com/stellation.html. The open strings of the quartet
> have been retuned as follows:
>
> Violin 1 E: 21/16 E +0 660 hz
> A: 7/4 A -2 439 hz
> D: 9/8 D -67 283 hz
> G: 3/2 G -69 188 hz
> Violin 2 E: 81/64 E -63 636 hz
> A: 27/16 A -65 424 hz
> D: 33/32 D -218 259 hz
> G: 11/8 G -220 173 hz
> Viola: A: 891/512 A -12 437 hz
> D: 297/256 D -14 291 hz
> G: 99/64 G -16 194 hz
> C: 63/32 C -98 124 hz
> Cello: A: 7/4 A -2 220 hz
> D: 7/6 D -4 146 hz
> G: 3/2 G -69 94 hz
> C: 1/1 C -71 63 hz
>
> The concert will also include a wonderful microtonal piece by Tom
> Flaherty for dozens of performers spaced around the audience with
> metal and glass kitchen bowls and other various household items. I
> hope to see you there! (Did I mention it's free?)
>

🔗bill_alves <ALVES@...>

Hi Carl,

While not my first piece for string quartet, this is the first time
I've actually convinced players to radically retune! Thanks for your
interest (and Chris too). I'll be recording a studio version soon, and
I hope to have a dvd of this and other works available later this
spring. I'll let you know.

I meant to mention that the string players frequently play harmonics,
often a 3/1 above the open strings. This is the first time I've
encountered a curious comma of 896/891, meaning that a couple of these
strings are just 10 cents apart, but no one's complained, at least
about that!

Bill

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <carl@...> wrote:
>
> Wow, congrats! Is this your first piece working with a
> string quartet?
>
> Will there be a recording? If so, please post.
>
> -Carl
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "bill_alves" <ALVES@> wrote:
> >
> > This Saturday Feb. 21 at 8:00 PM at Pomona College, the Euphoria
> > Quartet will premiere a new work of mine for retuned string quartet,
> > electronics, and video called Stellation. The concert is part of the
> > College's Ussachevsky festival of electronic music and will be in
> > Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building, corner of Fourth and College,
> > Claremont California. Admission is free!
> >
> > You can see some stills and information about the piece here:
> > www.billalves.com/stellation.html. The open strings of the quartet
> > have been retuned as follows:
> >
> > Violin 1 E: 21/16 E +0 660 hz
> > A: 7/4 A -2 439 hz
> > D: 9/8 D -67 283 hz
> > G: 3/2 G -69 188 hz
> > Violin 2 E: 81/64 E -63 636 hz
> > A: 27/16 A -65 424 hz
> > D: 33/32 D -218 259 hz
> > G: 11/8 G -220 173 hz
> > Viola: A: 891/512 A -12 437 hz
> > D: 297/256 D -14 291 hz
> > G: 99/64 G -16 194 hz
> > C: 63/32 C -98 124 hz
> > Cello: A: 7/4 A -2 220 hz
> > D: 7/6 D -4 146 hz
> > G: 3/2 G -69 94 hz
> > C: 1/1 C -71 63 hz
> >
> > The concert will also include a wonderful microtonal piece by Tom
> > Flaherty for dozens of performers spaced around the audience with
> > metal and glass kitchen bowls and other various household items. I
> > hope to see you there! (Did I mention it's free?)
> >
>