[orchestral] Building Easter Island (mp3 OGG)

[uncloned]

The ogg

http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/micro/22-ET/daily20100121-easter-island-22edo.ogg

or the mp3 is here:

http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/micro/22-ET/daily20100121-easter-island-22edo.mp3

And PDF

http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/micro/22-ET/daily20100121-easter-island-22edo.pdf

This is an orchestral piece scored for percussion, strings and brass in 7/8 time and 22 EDO. It was realized in Sonar 8.5 with session 3 drummer and Garritan Personal Orchestra ver. 4 which uses the scala tuning file capable Aria player. The main idea here was to work a bit with the Sonar step sequencer and some rhythmic complexity. The score is in 12 EDO but is midi note number accurate to the 22 EDO realization and is accurate to the nearest eight note for compactness. The brass was performed on a Korg MS2000 real time in 22 EDO and then some editing done to the performance.

[Sam_Zen]

Very interesting work. I like the percussion.

[uncloned]

thanks for the listen and comment!

[apple-joe]

Nice stuff. Challenging your guitar tracks as one of my favourites so far I think. As much as I these days try to find possibly negative factors in order to provide constructive criticism, I struggle doing so here. So why is it among my favourites? I'm not even quite sure, but two probable key points are the playful atmosphere (not an overly restrained approach to tonality) plus the impression that there's a lot going on. Great percussion.

EDIT: Hm, I didn't notice the 7/8 beat (I guess this means it was incorporated rather naturally). I reacted to the general style, but not the time signature itself. I would have enjoyed the style if it were 6/8 or 8/8 also, but 7/8 is a little more tricky, so it makes the song even a bit more impressive.

[uncloned]

Hi apple-joe

I'm impressed that you like this considering the time signature and the fact it uses an alternate tuning.

With respect to the tuning - I don't have an easy way to express what I am doing with melody / harmony  - right now it is all by ear. To say that this is tonal is correct, and that the tonality is relaxed in comparison to common practice major / minor is also correct. Actually one of my goals is to take a bit of the score for the horns and do a manual translation / analysis via this text:

http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/sam/explanation.txt

I need to be able to organize logically what I'm doing by ear to acquire greater compositional and improvisational dexterity.

If I can do this in some easily digitized way I'll be happy to share the analysis.