A Piano Study in 17 ET

This is taken from today's blog post at

http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=15

I'd prefer you'd leave comments at the blog.
(still trying to integrate all of the postings I make...)

A Piano Study in 17 ET

The genesis of this piece was a piano improvisation which was recorded via midi and used a M-Audio keystation 88es, pianoteq 3.5, and sonar 8.5.

Once recorded the improvisation was heavily edited - mostly moving notes (not times) and removing hesitations I judged to be too long. Also the tempo was increased by two. One of the interesting aspects of this piece is that the voice leading is starting to work and I stumbled upon a real progression with resolution that occurs about 1:42. When playing this configuration the main challenge was remembering the relationships of 17 ET mapped to a 12 ET keyboard – for instance a minor 7th becomes a 5th. Many of the chord changes are abrupt since I was moving a pattern of notes in a parallel motion up and down the keyboard as a main generator of the piece. The piece has some decidedly xenharmonic passages. The compositional choices lean towards a balance of consonance and dissonance analogous to 12 ET common practice.

The MP3 is here : http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/daily20091203-piano-17et.mp3

The OGG is here : http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/daily20091203-piano-17et.ogg

The score (at 8th note resolution) is here : http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/daily20091203-piano-study-17et.pdf

As a request - it would be great to have a tool that could take a piece like this in standard midi notation and translate to the tuning actually used in some xenharmonic notation with the input of the scala file. Does this exist?

Thanks,

Chris

This is one of the most enjoyable 17-ET pieces I've heard in
a long time. Thanks, Chris. You're only using a few chords,
but you're using the right ones! and the soft piano timbre
takes care of the rest. It still has some improvisatory
hesitations to my ear, but hey, nothing's perfect.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "christopherv" <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
>
> This is taken from today's blog post at
>
>
> http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=15
>
> I'd prefer you'd leave comments at the blog.
> (still trying to integrate all of the postings I make...)
>
> A Piano Study in 17 ET
>
> The genesis of this piece was a piano improvisation which was
> recorded via midi and used a M-Audio keystation 88es,
> pianoteq 3.5, and sonar 8.5.
>
> Once recorded the improvisation was heavily edited - mostly
> moving notes (not times) and removing hesitations I judged to
> be too long. Also the tempo was increased by two. One of the
> interesting aspects of this piece is that the voice leading
> is starting to work and I stumbled upon a real progression with
> resolution that occurs about 1:42. When playing this
> configuration the main challenge was remembering the
> relationships of 17 ET mapped to a 12 ET keyboard – for instance
> a minor 7th becomes a 5th. Many of the chord changes are abrupt
> since I was moving a pattern of notes in a parallel motion up
> and down the keyboard as a main generator of the piece. The
> piece has some decidedly xenharmonic passages. The compositional
> choices lean towards a balance of consonance and dissonance
> analogous to 12 ET common practice.
>
> The MP3 is here : http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/
> daily20091203-piano-17et.mp3
>
> The OGG is here : http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/
> daily20091203-piano-17et.ogg
>
> The score (at 8th note resolution) is here :
> http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/daily20091203-piano-study-17et.pdf
>
> As a request - it would be great to have a tool that could take
> a piece like this in standard midi notation and translate to the
> tuning actually used in some xenharmonic notation with the input
> of the scala file. Does this exist?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris

Thanks for the listen and comment Carl.

I agree that there are some hesitations left. Corrections can only go so far honestly. A better performance is the goal eventually.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <carl@...> wrote:
>
> This is one of the most enjoyable 17-ET pieces I've heard in
> a long time. Thanks, Chris. You're only using a few chords,
> but you're using the right ones! and the soft piano timbre
> takes care of the rest. It still has some improvisatory
> hesitations to my ear, but hey, nothing's perfect.
>
> -Carl
>
>