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AXiS-49 improvisation in 22-tet

🔗Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...>

4/24/2011 11:07:44 PM

Since MMM seems to be dead these days, I'm going to take a cue from
Chris V. and post music here as well.

I recorded an improvisation on my AXiS-49. The whole thing was pretty
long so I edited 4 smaller parts from it. The playlist is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO2rlRhTId4&playnext=1&list=PL100AF8DBBDE723C4

Afterward, I went back and embellished on the 11-equal progression a
bit, harmonized it, worked out a melody for it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhPjsCoMy-Q&feature=BFa&list=PL100AF8DBBDE723C4&index=5

Here we can see me mangle an explanation of the porcupine comma pump on camera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSfnyr1MhXE&feature=BFa&list=PL100AF8DBBDE723C4&index=6

It is apparently true that if you're ever on camera at 5:30 in the
morning and need to discuss regular mapping, the first phrase that
will come to your mind to describe motion downward by 10/9 is "go down
by a small thing." Anyway, since I said I'd have to discuss it in the
email, the chord progression is (in meantone)

Cm7 -> Ebmaj7 -> Ebm7 -> Dbmaj/Eb -> Dbm7 -> Cb/Db -> Cbm7

except in porcupine, instead of ending up at Cbm7, you end up back at
Cm7 again in porcupine.

Hope you enjoy.

-Mike