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Hey all,

It's maybe the theme-of-the-month, but I'm finding little things on my hard
drive that are worth hearing that I never posted in all the years....

This set is 4 piece I wrote (meaning improvised, then sped up) on
2005-10-27. At the time, Halloween was approaching, so I called them
'halloween 1-4', but now, I'm re-packaging them here as '4 Diabolical
Studies for player (MIDI) piano'

It's 5-limit JI, with all its craggy different interval sizes, sweetness and
beating.

http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical1.mp3
http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical2.mp3
http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical3.mp3
http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical4.mp3

At some point, Carl said he'd take my MIDI files and realize the same pieces
with Pianoteq, so we can compare and contrast. What you hear here is my own
Yamaha-P200 soundfont.

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.untwelve.org

🔗Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...>

I still have that Yamaha P-200 piano tucked under my table as a note
typesetter. It's a specially designed workbench just for that. P-200
is a great electronic piano, but I don't like it's sampled sounds very
much. Too placid for my taste.

Will listen to your pieces now Aaron.

Oz.

✩ ✩ ✩
www.ozanyarman.com

On Sep 19, 2009, at 1:13 AM, Aaron Johnson wrote:

>
>
> Hey all,
>
> It's maybe the theme-of-the-month, but I'm finding little things on
> my hard drive that are worth hearing that I never posted in all the
> years....
>
> This set is 4 piece I wrote (meaning improvised, then sped up) on
> 2005-10-27. At the time, Halloween was approaching, so I called them
> 'halloween 1-4', but now, I'm re-packaging them here as '4
> Diabolical Studies for player (MIDI) piano'
>
> It's 5-limit JI, with all its craggy different interval sizes,
> sweetness and beating.
>
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical1.mp3
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical2.mp3
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical3.mp3
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical4.mp3
>
> At some point, Carl said he'd take my MIDI files and realize the
> same pieces with Pianoteq, so we can compare and contrast. What you
> hear here is my own Yamaha-P200 soundfont.
>
> Aaron Krister Johnson
> http://www.akjmusic.com
> http://www.untwelve.org
>
>
>

🔗Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...>

Aaron, you never cease to amaze me. These pieces are simply marvelous.
Bravo! They sound indeed very diabolical. What are the scales you used
in each piece? Are they all in the same tuning?

Oz.

✩ ✩ ✩
www.ozanyarman.com

On Sep 19, 2009, at 1:13 AM, Aaron Johnson wrote:

🔗Aaron Johnson <aaron@...>

Thanks, Ozan, for your kind words!

They are all in a C-major centered duodene tuning. I didn't improvise them
with a particular single scale in mind, they are much more free-wheeling and
full of the angular modulatory spirit of Prokofieff, I guess. I remember
doing them one after the other, back to back, and if you listen, you can
hear that many of the ideas between the pieces are related and 'cut from the
same cloth'.

As always, I thought mostly motivically and texturally, and of course, I was
driving home and bringing back certain melodic ideas. The harmonies just
shifted as the mood did....I'm getting to the point where I trust my sense
of harmonic architecture and form, and I can just 'go'. I sometimes feel
like it passes through me....hard to describe.

I suppose like anything else, the more practice you have the better...I
improvise twice a week every week during services at the Synagogue that
employs me. Yes, there are certainly bad days and bad improvisations. It's
the nature of the beast, and in many ways, it's a much riskier and vunerable
way to do music (to improvise, that is). Sometimes, it all comes together,
and feels and sounds good. When they can be documented, all the better.

Best,
AKJ.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...>wrote:

>
>
> Aaron, you never cease to amaze me. These pieces are simply marvelous.
> Bravo! They sound indeed very diabolical. What are the scales you used in
> each piece? Are they all in the same tuning?
>
> Oz.
>
> ✩ ✩ ✩
> www.ozanyarman.com
>
> On Sep 19, 2009, at 1:13 AM, Aaron Johnson wrote:
>
>
>
> Hey all,
>
> It's maybe the theme-of-the-month, but I'm finding little things on my hard
> drive that are worth hearing that I never posted in all the years....
>
> This set is 4 piece I wrote (meaning improvised, then sped up) on
> 2005-10-27. At the time, Halloween was approaching, so I called them
> 'halloween 1-4', but now, I'm re-packaging them here as '4 Diabolical
> Studies for player (MIDI) piano'
>
> It's 5-limit JI, with all its craggy different interval sizes, sweetness
> and beating.
>
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical1.mp3
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical2.mp3
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical3.mp3
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical4.mp3
>
> At some point, Carl said he'd take my MIDI files and realize the same
> pieces with Pianoteq, so we can compare and contrast. What you hear here is
> my own Yamaha-P200 soundfont.
>
> Aaron Krister Johnson
> http://www.akjmusic.com
> http://www.untwelve.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.untwelve.org

🔗Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>

Whoa, this is some of the best stuff I've heard you do--and it's all improvised?!

As you were telling Ozan just earlier, I do hear a lot of Prokofiev in this. It makes me want/need to compose another 72-edo piano solo.

~D.

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Sent: Friday, 18 September, 2009 17:13
Subject: [tuning] more new (old) music

Hey all,

It's maybe the theme-of-the-month, but I'm finding little things on my hard drive that are worth hearing that I never posted in all the years....

This set is 4 piece I wrote (meaning improvised, then sped up) on 2005-10-27. At the time, Halloween was approaching, so I called them 'halloween 1-4', but now, I'm re-packaging them here as '4 Diabolical Studies for player (MIDI) piano'

It's 5-limit JI, with all its craggy different interval sizes, sweetness and beating.

http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical1.mp3
http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical2.mp3
http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical3.mp3
http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical4.mp3

At some point, Carl said he'd take my MIDI files and realize the same pieces with Pianoteq, so we can compare and contrast. What you hear here is my own Yamaha-P200 soundfont.

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.untwelve.org

🔗Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...>

Man - these are great!!!

The first one sounds like Bartok for some reason - I think I like it the
best. All of them are quite good though.
What a diabolical inspiration you had!

Chris

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Aaron Johnson <aaron@...> wrote:

>
>
> Hey all,
>
> It's maybe the theme-of-the-month, but I'm finding little things on my hard
> drive that are worth hearing that I never posted in all the years....
>
> This set is 4 piece I wrote (meaning improvised, then sped up) on
> 2005-10-27. At the time, Halloween was approaching, so I called them
> 'halloween 1-4', but now, I'm re-packaging them here as '4 Diabolical
> Studies for player (MIDI) piano'
>
> It's 5-limit JI, with all its craggy different interval sizes, sweetness
> and beating.
>
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical1.mp3
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical2.mp3
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical3.mp3
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical4.mp3
>
> At some point, Carl said he'd take my MIDI files and realize the same
> pieces with Pianoteq, so we can compare and contrast. What you hear here is
> my own Yamaha-P200 soundfont.
>
> Aaron Krister Johnson
> http://www.akjmusic.com
> http://www.untwelve.org
>
>

🔗Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...>

✩ ✩ ✩
www.ozanyarman.com

On Sep 19, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Aaron Johnson wrote:

>
>
> Thanks, Ozan, for your kind words!
>

You deserve the praises.

> They are all in a C-major centered duodene tuning. I didn't
> improvise them with a particular single scale in mind, they are much
> more free-wheeling and full of the angular modulatory spirit of
> Prokofieff, I guess.

Even Darius Milhaud perhaps. Your diabolical piano etudes remind me of
a darker blend of Scaramousche.

> I remember doing them one after the other, back to back, and if you
> listen, you can hear that many of the ideas between the pieces are
> related and 'cut from the same cloth'.
>

The same musical fabric, yes...

> As always, I thought mostly motivically and texturally, and of
> course, I was driving home and bringing back certain melodic ideas.
> The harmonies just shifted as the mood did....I'm getting to the
> point where I trust my sense of harmonic architecture and form, and
> I can just 'go'. I sometimes feel like it passes through me....hard
> to describe.
>

I recognize the experience. It's almost as if the composer is the
medium through which music channels down from up above somewhere. Of
course, the better equipped the composer in technique and theory, the
better he "receives" the signal.

I'm trying to catch that signal once again after a long period of
"stand-by"...

> I suppose like anything else, the more practice you have the
> better...I improvise twice a week every week during services at the
> Synagogue that employs me.

That's a "spiritual" side of you I didn't know. Interesting.

> Yes, there are certainly bad days and bad improvisations. It's the
> nature of the beast, and in many ways, it's a much riskier and
> vunerable way to do music (to improvise, that is). Sometimes, it all > comes together, and feels and sounds good. When they can be
> documented, all the better.
>

I think you are a prolific and talented composer, a source of pride
for all microtonalists.

> Best,
> AKJ.

Oz.

>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...
> > wrote:
>
>
> Aaron, you never cease to amaze me. These pieces are simply
> marvelous. Bravo! They sound indeed very diabolical. What are the
> scales you used in each piece? Are they all in the same tuning?
>
> Oz.
>
> ✩ ✩ ✩
> www.ozanyarman.com
>
> On Sep 19, 2009, at 1:13 AM, Aaron Johnson wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> It's maybe the theme-of-the-month, but I'm finding little things on
>> my hard drive that are worth hearing that I never posted in all the
>> years....
>>
>> This set is 4 piece I wrote (meaning improvised, then sped up) on
>> 2005-10-27. At the time, Halloween was approaching, so I called
>> them 'halloween 1-4', but now, I'm re-packaging them here as '4
>> Diabolical Studies for player (MIDI) piano'
>>
>> It's 5-limit JI, with all its craggy different interval sizes,
>> sweetness and beating.
>>
>> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical1.mp3
>> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical2.mp3
>> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical3.mp3
>> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/diabolical4.mp3
>>
>> At some point, Carl said he'd take my MIDI files and realize the
>> same pieces with Pianoteq, so we can compare and contrast. What you
>> hear here is my own Yamaha-P200 soundfont.
>>
>> Aaron Krister Johnson
>> http://www.akjmusic.com
>> http://www.untwelve.org
>>
>>
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>
> Aaron Krister Johnson
> http://www.akjmusic.com
> http://www.untwelve.org
>
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