New piece: "Come Out and Play!"

First of all, I've been really busy, but I've gotten to hear all your works over the past week, so I'll miss a lot of e-mails. I'll have to be brief and say I liked all of them.

Now on to the rest of the good news: I'm finally done with something I've been working on for months, though I might change a few minor things. Consider this a beta release.

http://tinyurl.com/n55bah (preview to be safe: http://preview.tinyurl.com/n55bah)

It's part of the "soundtrack" project again. It's what microtonalism might sound like when applied to the background music of a game or movie; this would be for an adventure/random battle sequence. I really use microtonalism as a technique and not a genre; I do the same with everything else, from everything to serialism to minimalism to Baroque styles--in other words, fugato rather than fugue.

The tuning is 72-equal again, but strings and trombone are really the only instruments fully using the tuning; most instruments play in 12-tone except clarinet, saxes and French horn which can bend notes (most of the time, using vague quarter tones). You'd probably recognize the influence of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Ives; I even use two competing meters in a couple places like the last did for "Putnam's Camp" from Three Pieces in New England. Music from several video games and Ravel's most (in)famous work are other insprations.

Also, the flute-like sound at the beginning is supposed to be a didgeridoo tuned to D, which I don't have a sound for on my keyboard.

I'm still not sure what's going to become of the "soundtrack"; it might just end up being one long suite with a bunch of interacting leitmotifs.

~D.

Hello Danny,
I just tried to load it but I'm getting an error. The last fm player
seems to be screwing up.

-Mike

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> First of all, I've been really busy, but I've gotten to hear all your
> works over the past week, so I'll miss a lot of e-mails. I'll have to be
> brief and say I liked all of them.
>
> Now on to the rest of the good news: I'm finally done with something
> I've been working on for months, though I might change a few minor
> things. Consider this a beta release.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/n55bah (preview to be safe:
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/n55bah)
>
> It's part of the "soundtrack" project again. It's what microtonalism
> might sound like when applied to the background music of a game or
> movie; this would be for an adventure/random battle sequence. I really
> use microtonalism as a technique and not a genre; I do the same with
> everything else, from everything to serialism to minimalism to Baroque
> styles--in other words, fugato rather than fugue.
>
> The tuning is 72-equal again, but strings and trombone are really the
> only instruments fully using the tuning; most instruments play in
> 12-tone except clarinet, saxes and French horn which can bend notes
> (most of the time, using vague quarter tones). You'd probably recognize
> the influence of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Ives; I even use two
> competing meters in a couple places like the last did for "Putnam's
> Camp" from Three Pieces in New England. Music from several video games
> and Ravel's most (in)famous work are other insprations.
>
> Also, the flute-like sound at the beginning is supposed to be a
> didgeridoo tuned to D, which I don't have a sound for on my keyboard.
>
> I'm still not sure what's going to become of the "soundtrack"; it might
> just end up being one long suite with a bunch of interacting leitmotifs.
>
> ~D.
>
>

My fault. I thought the list blocked my original message since I sent it as a TinyURL link, so I reorganized my symphonic work into a single album here. (Not everything is microtonal; the first two tracks are pure 12-equal.)

http://www.last.fm/music/Danny+Wier/Symphonic

I also just notified MMM, so sorry for the semi-crosspost.

~D.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Battaglia" <battaglia01@...>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 10 September, 2009 12:39
Subject: Re: [tuning] New piece: "Come Out and Play!"

> Hello Danny,
> I just tried to load it but I'm getting an error. The last fm player
> seems to be screwing up.
>
> -Mike

Danny- Sorry for the delayed response. I really like what
I'm hearing here. The conception is much larger than much
of what we hear on these lists, which tend to be concise
works (not that there's anything wrong with that).
I completely agree about microtonalism as a technique rather
than a genre. I don't think anyone would seriously argue
it's a genre, yet it seems to me people often speak as if it
were. I suppose it would be a bit like saying odd time
signatures are a genre!

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Danny Wier" <dawiertx@...> wrote:
>
> First of all, I've been really busy, but I've gotten to hear
> all your works over the past week, so I'll miss a lot of
> e-mails. I'll have to be brief and say I liked all of them.
>
> Now on to the rest of the good news: I'm finally done with
> something I've been working on for months, though I might
> change a few minor things. Consider this a beta release.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/n55bah (preview to be safe:
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/n55bah)
>
> It's part of the "soundtrack" project again. It's what
> microtonalism might sound like when applied to the background
> music of a game or movie; this would be for an adventure/random
> battle sequence. I really use microtonalism as a technique
> and not a genre; I do the same with everything else, from
> everything to serialism to minimalism to Baroque styles--in
> other words, fugato rather than fugue.
>
> The tuning is 72-equal again, but strings and trombone are
> really the only instruments fully using the tuning; most
> instruments play in 12-tone except clarinet, saxes and
> French horn which can bend notes (most of the time, using
> vague quarter tones). You'd probably recognize the influence
> of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Ives; I even use two competing
> meters in a couple places like the last did for "Putnam's
> Camp" from Three Pieces in New England. Music from several
> video games and Ravel's most (in)famous work are other
> insprations.
>
> Also, the flute-like sound at the beginning is supposed to be
> a didgeridoo tuned to D, which I don't have a sound for on my
> keyboard.
>
> I'm still not sure what's going to become of the "soundtrack";
> it might just end up being one long suite with a bunch of
> interacting leitmotifs.
>
> ~D.
>

It took a bit but I made it through all of the pieces.

Sonya and the last piece le nef... are very impressive and I enjoyed them a
lot.

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> wrote:

>
>
> First of all, I've been really busy, but I've gotten to hear all your
> works over the past week, so I'll miss a lot of e-mails. I'll have to be
> brief and say I liked all of them.
>
> Now on to the rest of the good news: I'm finally done with something
> I've been working on for months, though I might change a few minor
> things. Consider this a beta release.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/n55bah (preview to be safe:
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/n55bah)
>
> It's part of the "soundtrack" project again. It's what microtonalism
> might sound like when applied to the background music of a game or
> movie; this would be for an adventure/random battle sequence. I really
> use microtonalism as a technique and not a genre; I do the same with
> everything else, from everything to serialism to minimalism to Baroque
> styles--in other words, fugato rather than fugue.
>
> The tuning is 72-equal again, but strings and trombone are really the
> only instruments fully using the tuning; most instruments play in
> 12-tone except clarinet, saxes and French horn which can bend notes
> (most of the time, using vague quarter tones). You'd probably recognize
> the influence of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Ives; I even use two
> competing meters in a couple places like the last did for "Putnam's
> Camp" from Three Pieces in New England. Music from several video games
> and Ravel's most (in)famous work are other insprations.
>
> Also, the flute-like sound at the beginning is supposed to be a
> didgeridoo tuned to D, which I don't have a sound for on my keyboard.
>
> I'm still not sure what's going to become of the "soundtrack"; it might
> just end up being one long suite with a bunch of interacting leitmotifs.
>
> ~D.
>
>
>