Hi all,

Here's a short piece written with two mutually-exclusive (except for the 
root) pentatonic scales from Kraig Grady's meta-slendro family of just 
intonation tunings.  Musically, it's a cycle consisting of two voices in 
hocket, first stated alone, then combined with itself at 2x and then 4x 
speed.  I think it could be performed if one had six good players with 
properly tuned hammered dulcimers or mallet instruments (and a seventh 
for the extra bass notes).

The two scales are:
1/1 37/32 21/16 49/32 7/4 2/1
1/1 9/8 151/128 3/2 25/16 2/1

Made in Csound with blue, using a nice instrument called "Sine modulo 
pluck" (see http://blue.kunstmusik.com/instruments/show_instrument/183) 
and some reverb.  No processing outside of Csound.

The link (for streaming or downloading) is here:
http://soundcloud.com/mysterybear/sumeru

Comments welcome.  Hope you enjoy it.

- Dave



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Hi Dave,

This is cool, and somewhat different for you---still ambient, but a
bit more rhythmic propulsion than I usually expect from you. The use
of Csound is nice, and I do like the pluck modulating the sine timbre.
For my taste, the reverb might be a bit too much for clarity, but it
does create an atmospheric wash. Maybe it's a question of keeping a
long reverb time, but balancing the reverb signal more into the
background....(for me)?

The scales look and sound interesting, but it's curious that you have
two high primes in there: 151 and 37, where all the other numbers
factor into 7-limit JI intervals....what's the rationale? Not that
there need be, it *sounds* cool.

Best,
AKJ

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Dave Seidel  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here's a short piece written with two mutually-exclusive (except for the
> root) pentatonic scales from Kraig Grady's meta-slendro family of just
> intonation tunings.  Musically, it's a cycle consisting of two voices in
> hocket, first stated alone, then combined with itself at 2x and then 4x
> speed.  I think it could be performed if one had six good players with
> properly tuned hammered dulcimers or mallet instruments (and a seventh for
> the extra bass notes).
>
> The two scales are:
> 1/1 37/32 21/16 49/32 7/4 2/1
> 1/1 9/8 151/128 3/2 25/16 2/1
>
> Made in Csound with blue, using a nice instrument called "Sine modulo pluck"
> (see http://blue.kunstmusik.com/instruments/show_instrument/183) and some
> reverb.  No processing outside of Csound.
>
> The link (for streaming or downloading) is here:
> http://soundcloud.com/mysterybear/sumeru
>
> Comments welcome.  Hope you enjoy it.
>
> - Dave
>
>
>
> Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker
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>



-- 
Best,

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.untwelve.org


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Thanks, Aaron.  It is different, but more like the kind of music I used 
to write before I discovered Csound and embraced just intonation and the 
drone aesthetic.

Yes, the reverb might be a bit much.

The scales are in what Kraig Grady calls meta-slendro, derived from the 
"Mt. Meru #3" sequence (there's written material for this on Kraig's 
site).  I used the series to generate the following 12-note scale:

1/1 65/64 9/8 37/32 151/128 21/16 43/32 3/2 49/32 25/16 7/4 57/32 2/1

and then used Scala's MOS (Moment of Symmetry) tool to derive two 
pentatonic scales.

But really, I wasn't really thinking theoretically at all (at least not 
about the intervals), I just love the sound of meta-slendro and wanted 
to do something with it.

- Dave

On 8/2/2010 8:13 PM, Aaron Krister Johnson wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> This is cool, and somewhat different for you---still ambient, but a
> bit more rhythmic propulsion than I usually expect from you. The use
> of Csound is nice, and I do like the pluck modulating the sine timbre.
> For my taste, the reverb might be a bit too much for clarity, but it
> does create an atmospheric wash. Maybe it's a question of keeping a
> long reverb time, but balancing the reverb signal more into the
> background....(for me)?
>
> The scales look and sound interesting, but it's curious that you have
> two high primes in there: 151 and 37, where all the other numbers
> factor into 7-limit JI intervals....what's the rationale? Not that
> there need be, it *sounds* cool.
>
> Best,
> AKJ
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Dave Seidel  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here's a short piece written with two mutually-exclusive (except for the
>> root) pentatonic scales from Kraig Grady's meta-slendro family of just
>> intonation tunings.  Musically, it's a cycle consisting of two voices in
>> hocket, first stated alone, then combined with itself at 2x and then 4x
>> speed.  I think it could be performed if one had six good players with
>> properly tuned hammered dulcimers or mallet instruments (and a seventh for
>> the extra bass notes).
>>
>> The two scales are:
>> 1/1 37/32 21/16 49/32 7/4 2/1
>> 1/1 9/8 151/128 3/2 25/16 2/1
>>
>> Made in Csound with blue, using a nice instrument called "Sine modulo pluck"
>> (see http://blue.kunstmusik.com/instruments/show_instrument/183) and some
>> reverb.  No processing outside of Csound.
>>
>> The link (for streaming or downloading) is here:
>> http://soundcloud.com/mysterybear/sumeru
>>
>> Comments welcome.  Hope you enjoy it.
>>
>> - Dave
>>
>>
>>
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>>            https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599
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>> csound"
>>
>>
>
>
>



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Hi Dave,

Nice to hear such a nice piece with the instrument that I made!

Mark

Dave Seidel wrote:
> http://soundcloud.com/mysterybear/sumeru



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Thanks, Mark!  I would have mentioned your name -- but I didn't know 
what it was -- I only knew was your "markvp" handle from the UDO 
repository.  Thanks for writing a cool instrument, which I expect I'll 
be using again.  It's quite versatile!

- Dave

On 8/3/2010 5:22 PM, Mark Van Peteghem wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Nice to hear such a nice piece with the instrument that I made!
>
> Mark
>
> Dave Seidel wrote:
>> http://soundcloud.com/mysterybear/sumeru



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