a few days late... and just over a minute long
a quarter tone piano piece realized by using two Garritan Personal Orchestra Steinway pianos in Sonar - one is tuned a quarter tone sharp.
there is not microtonal usage all the way through
I was intentionally trying to fit in the quarter tones into the harmony
http://clones.soonlabel.com/mp3/quarterpicnic.mp3
0:00-0:28 sounds like pretty fine and decent slower piano piece.
0:28+ imo, with all respect, your piano seriously needs to be tuned up. =)
well, the out of tune-ness is on purpose
but... the challenge to writing any music that uses a different tuning from today's standard 12 notes is to make it acceptable to everyone.
it is a hard thing to do.
But thanks for the listen!
Quote from: "uncloned"But thanks for the listen!
My pleasure, as always. ^^
Well, mixed feelings about this.
Normally I don't care much about things being out of tune, or in another scale. Just a way to express things.
But these freq. combinations don't follow any mathematical cohesion, and just rattle my brain.
I can't say I know anything about quarter tone harmony. I did it by ear and 24 note per octave is a fairly jarring tuning.
It was more a proof of concept for me.
Thanks for the listen!
To be honest this is hard to listen to. This is an update and taken from email to the making micro music list.
Ok,
z3ta+ had a whole bunch of scala files - and this I believe uses normal 22 edo (z3ta+ is a vsti synth packaged with Sonar 7)
http://clones.soonlabel.com/mp3/barrycompo2.mp3
The link is to the same piano piece run through z3ta+ with 22 edo loaded.
(19 edo was incredibly hard to listen to but without a doubt proved it was working)
One thing that happened was this apparent register widening - not what I expected.
I would have guessed compression would have occurred.
To me this sounds like noise... but hey - its a proof concept.
And - give me a way to start composing with other tunings in a fashion I'm used to.
it was 5-22.scl I think.
I'll try your scale and see it's different - this is going to be really cool!
For completeness here is the score for the piano version.
http://clones.soonlabel.com/tis/quarterpicnic.pdf