The Bohlen-Pierce Symposium in Boston March 7-9

This may be news to some tuning friends:

http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org

Concerts Sunday, Monday, Tuesday evening, and lectures during the day. Looks very interesting.

Prent Rodgers

I like this song, fwiw.

http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/BP/BPmusic/LoveSong_BPscale_EW.mp3

On Feb 27, 2010, at 2:35 PM, prentrodgers wrote:

> This may be news to some tuning friends:
>
> http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org
>
> Concerts Sunday, Monday, Tuesday evening, and lectures during the
> day. Looks very interesting.
>
> Prent Rodgers
>
>
>

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "prentrodgers" <prentrodgers@...> wrote:
>
> This may be news to some tuning friends:
>
> http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org
>
> Concerts Sunday, Monday, Tuesday evening, and lectures during the >day. Looks very interesting.
>
> Prent Rodgers
>

Just curious- does anyone here work in BP? I wonder what people's opinions of it are.

Cameron wrote :

> Just curious- does anyone here work in BP ? I wonder what people's > opinions of it are.

It's not one of my main ressources but I have done some JI versions, which I found difficult but quite interesting.
(and I heard some people doing better than me with it ;-)
I like it ! it feels like having no special centre, no attachment, it has poetry, it's spacy, something in between jazz, and birds songs. It speaks.
If jazz musicians where interested in it, that would be something.
I am glad to know that a BP clarinet will be presented at that conference. Perfect instrument for BP !

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Jacques

Daniel Anthony Stearns wrote :

> hello here Jacques,if you're interested in B-P as JI----or more > accurately, meantone-----then you might find this interesting (or not)

http://www.huygens-fokker.org/bpsite/modes.html#anchor550926

Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the link - very interesting, I am not surprised of the variety of approaches around this tuning.
Mine was just very basic, I wanted to hear how a Lambda scale would sound on a photosonic disk, using an "omission" (graphic technique) that harmonizes each frequency with one or more of its subharmonics, that would belong to the Lambda scale's lower tritaves of course. That way, I was certain to explore specific "BP" harmonies.
here is the scale :
315 : 375 : 405 : 441 : 525 : 567 : 675 : 735 : 875 : 945
and the corresponding subharmonics :
45 : 75 : 15 : 49+63 : 35+ 25 : 81+27 : 135+45 : 147+105 : 125+35 : 63+45+135

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Jacques

BP to me has an extremely broad sound, like it is stretched way out. The xentonality of it doesn't bother me at all of course, but I find it strange to work with on a purely practical level- very few tones taking up a lot of real estate! Very macro-tonal rather than microtonal.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Jacques Dudon <fotosonix@...> wrote:
>
> Cameron wrote :
>
> > Just curious- does anyone here work in BP ? I wonder what people's
> > opinions of it are.
>
>
> It's not one of my main ressources but I have done some JI versions,
> which I found difficult but quite interesting.
> (and I heard some people doing better than me with it ;-)
> I like it ! it feels like having no special centre, no attachment, it
> has poetry, it's spacy, something in between jazz, and birds songs.
> It speaks.
> If jazz musicians where interested in it, that would be something.
> I am glad to know that a BP clarinet will be presented at that
> conference. Perfect instrument for BP !
>
> - - - - - - -
> Jacques
>

Yes Cameron, I absolutely love it. Very "wide" sound, yet natural. It sings, and you can do some awesome chords and progressions in it. Agreed also that it can be jazzy.

But I might be in a minority because I reckon BP clarinets sound horrible. BP apparently is meant to be odd-only in theory, but strongly harmonic timbres like strings sound very FIERY and bold in my opinion, and I gravitate more to those sounds. At the moment I'm working on a BP track with rhodes(ish), a synth lead, two synth basses, bells(ish), 808(ish) drum machine and chopped breaks. Ish!

But as there's a lot of clarinet tooting scheduled at the BP Symposium I'm sure a lot of people enjoy listening to it! :)

Anybody with pianoteq should try tuning to BP, and using the harmonic spectrum thingy to cut out the even numbered harmonics. That sounds great, really mellow and clear, but be prepared to lose the rest of the day playing it.

All the best,

Sean

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "cameron" <misterbobro@...> wrote:
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "prentrodgers" <prentrodgers@> wrote:
> > This may be news to some tuning friends:
> >
> > http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org
> >
> > Concerts Sunday, Monday, Tuesday evening, and lectures during the >day. Looks very interesting.
> >
> > Prent Rodgers
> >
>
> Just curious- does anyone here work in BP? I wonder what people's opinions of it are.

On 27 February 2010 23:35, prentrodgers <prentrodgers@...> wrote:
> This may be news to some tuning friends:
>
> http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org
>
> Concerts Sunday, Monday, Tuesday evening, and lectures during the day. Looks very interesting.

It's made the Grauniad:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/14/bohlen-pierce-boston-symposium-octave

Graham