Porcupine Pow-wow

It's not just porcupines: you're ALL invited.

http://tinyurl.com/PeterBrewis [http://tinyurl.com/PeterBrewis]

The piece uses four tunings. I'd love to know what you think. Details of the
tunings are there on the web page.

Peter

Peter wrote:

>It's not just porcupines: you're ALL invited.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/PeterBrewis
>
>The piece uses four tunings. I'd love to know what you think.
>Details of the tunings are there on the web page.

Color me impressed. It'll be the first microtonal mp3 I'm
adding to my archive in a while.

-Carl

Splendid tunes in there. It got wows from me.

Oz.

✩ ✩ ✩
www.ozanyarman.com

On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Peter Brewis wrote:

>
>
> It's not just porcupines: you're ALL invited.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/PeterBrewis
>
> The piece uses four tunings. I'd love to know what you think.
> Details of the tunings are there on the web page.
>
>
> Peter
>
>

Blown away!

Excellent work!

There seems to be a "microtonal" sound - a selection of xenharmonic and
melodic conventions that this piece has in places. I don't think I
recognized these devices until I listened to this piece. I'll take a stab
at enumerating my observations:

1. melodic - 0:45 a partial quote of harmonic series (I think,,,)
2. 1:00 higher limit harmony? (not sure on this one)
3. 1:13 is one of the hallmarks - sounds to me like parallel 2nds or smaller
- or perhaps a very non-12 parallel harmony (my ears are not the best)
4. 1:35 - minor 2nd-ish harmonic intervals in the piano
5. Gotta love the Jazz! Excellent.

(those devices just repeat here and there)

Does anyone have something to add or disagrees with my observations?

Chris

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Peter Brewis <pbrewis@...> wrote:

>
>
> It's not just porcupines: you're ALL invited.
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/PeterBrewis
>
> *The piece uses four tunings. I'd love to know what you think. Details of
> the tunings are there on the web page.
>
>
> Peter
>
>

Thank you, Carl! I'm delighted you like it.

Peter

Carl Lumma wrote:> Â Peter wrote:

>It's not just porcupines: you're ALL invited.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/PeterBrewis [http://tinyurl.com/PeterBrewis]
>
>The piece uses four tunings. I'd love to know what you think.
>Details of the tunings are there on the web page.

Color me impressed. It'll be the first microtonal mp3 I'm
adding to my archive in a while.

_,_._,___

Thank you, Ozan! Thanks for the wows :-)

Peter (London, BTW)

Ozan Yarman wrote:> Â Splendid tunes in there. It got wows from me.
Oz.
✩ ✩ ✩ www.ozanyarman.com [http://www.ozanyarman.com]
On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Peter Brewis wrote:
>

It's not just porcupines: you're ALL invited.

http://tinyurl.com/PeterBrewis [http://tinyurl.com/PeterBrewis]

The piece uses four tunings.ÂI'd love to know what you think.ÂDetails of the
tunings are there on the web page.

PeterÂ

Kind of you, Chris. Glad you like it.

Thank you for your comments. They may well be accurate, but I don't really
understand them :-) I'm afraid I'm not too good at tuning theory. Not sure what
you mean by 'devices'. I don't think there are any parallel 2nds, or quoting of
the harmonic series. I wasn't thinking about those things so much as the fact
that when I've written pieces using xen tunings they have often come out
sounding a bit restrained: rather careful. I wanted to see if I could do
something wilder, or at any rate, looser.

The opening woodwind tune reminded me of 'When I'm calling you' from Rose Marie.
Which is why you hear those lines sung near the end of the piece. 'Pow-wow'
seemed appropriate as it's an American Indian who first sings the song in the
musical ('What is that? I heard it before.' 'Just an Indian') and also because
the ceremonial theme is heard before and after lots of arguing!

>(those devices just repeat here and there)

Yeah. Development's a bugger!

Peter

Chris Vaisvil wrote:> Â Blown away!

Excellent work!

There seems to be a "microtonal" sound - a selection of xenharmonic and melodic
conventions that this piece has in places. I don't think I recognized these
devices until I listened to this piece. I'll take a stab at enumerating my
observations:

>
1. melodic - 0:45 a partial quote of harmonic series (I think,,,)
2. 1:00 higher limit harmony? (not sure on this one)
3. 1:13 is one of the hallmarks - sounds to me like parallel 2nds or smaller -
or perhaps a very non-12 parallel harmony (my ears are not the best)
4. 1:35 - minor 2nd-ish harmonic intervals in the piano
5. Gotta love the Jazz! Excellent.

(those devices just repeat here and there)

Does anyone have something to add or disagrees with my observations?

Chris

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Peter Brewis <pbrewis@cix.co.uk [pbrewis@...]>
wrote:
> Â It's not just porcupines: you're ALL invited.

http://tinyurl.com/PeterBrewis [http://tinyurl.com/PeterBrewis]

The piece uses four tunings. I'd love to know what you think. Details of the
tunings are there on the web page.

Peter

Hi Peter,

Sounds like I'm being really inaccurate (as usual) in what I think I'm
hearing. Regardless your piece is great!

(I'll have to find what corresponds to those "microtonal convention"
sounds by more trial and error)

Chris

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Peter Brewis <pbrewis@...> wrote:
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>
>
> Kind of you, Chris. Glad you like it.
>
> Thank you for your comments. They may well be accurate, but I don't really understand them :-) I'm afraid I'm not too good at tuning theory. Not sure what you mean by 'devices'. I don't think there are any parallel 2nds, or quoting of the harmonic series. I wasn't thinking about those things so much as