[classical piano] quater picnic (mp3) GPO

uncloned · November 15, 2008, 06:36:25

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

psishock · November 15, 2008, 18:06:58

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. =)

uncloned · November 15, 2008, 18:10:55

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!

psishock · November 15, 2008, 18:35:24

Quote from: "uncloned"But thanks for the listen!

My pleasure, as always. ^^

Sam_Zen · November 16, 2008, 00:28:34

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.

uncloned · November 16, 2008, 00:35:37

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!

uncloned · November 17, 2008, 03:08:28

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!

uncloned · March 15, 2009, 20:45:27

For completeness here is the score for the piano version.

http://clones.soonlabel.com/tis/quarterpicnic.pdf