Here's my first take at an answer to Tobiah's challenge. I posted the score,
preprocessor input, and MP3 of it to my weblog at
http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/sines.html

It's a work in process, so far 87 seconds in one key. It sounds kind of like
my other music, in 53 tone to the octave, based on semi-just intonation to
the 11 limit. I used the preprocessor I use for all my other work, modified
to use Tobiah's pfields. Turbo Pascal circa 1989 was used to modify the
preprocessor. Still moves the bits around just fine for me...
 
Prent Rodgers

Prent Rodgers wrote:
> Here's my first take at an answer to Tobiah's challenge. I posted the score,
> preprocessor input, and MP3 of it to my weblog at
> http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/sines.html
> 
> It's a work in process, so far 87 seconds in one key. It sounds kind of like
> my other music, in 53 tone to the octave, based on semi-just intonation to
> the 11 limit. I used the preprocessor I use for all my other work, modified
> to use Tobiah's pfields. Turbo Pascal circa 1989 was used to modify the
> preprocessor. Still moves the bits around just fine for me...
>  
> Prent Rodgers
> 
> 
> 
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Looking at your web page, it seems that your version of
csound does not support 'ftgen', and for whatever reason
you are not upgrading your version of csound.  Is there 
something preventing this?  It would be great if people
could just drop scores into their 'contest'? directory
without worrying about different orchestras.  I know that
you may provide a link to the audio output, but since
the idea has taken on some air of competition, some may
wish to find the proof in the pudding, and render entry
scores on their own machine.

There was a small amount of discussion on the csound site.
Basically, the orchestra, while leaving something to be
desired in some ways, stands as the synthesis portal to
this challenge.  May 1st is the submission deadline.

Tobiah

Prent Rodgers wrote:
> Here's my first take at an answer to Tobiah's challenge. I posted the score,
> preprocessor input, and MP3 of it to my weblog at
> http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/sines.html
> 
> It's a work in process, so far 87 seconds in one key. It sounds kind of like
> my other music, in 53 tone to the octave, based on semi-just intonation to
> the 11 limit. I used the preprocessor I use for all my other work, modified
> to use Tobiah's pfields. Turbo Pascal circa 1989 was used to modify the
> preprocessor. Still moves the bits around just fine for me...
>  

I just listened to your work in progress.  I think that you have achieved
some beautiful overall texture.  I like the rhythmic interest.  It's 
somewhat memorable, as it still dances among my keystrokes as I type this,
now that the piece has finished playing.

Thanks for playing!

Tobiah

Prent,

Thanks very much for sharing your interesting piece!  Is your 53-note scale
a "custom" one?  At first, I thought you meant 53-tone ET which gives good
aproximations of many just intervals, but I see from your score that you
define the scale with intervals.  So, I'm guessing its a custom selection of
just intervals.  Any method to your madness for constructing the scale?

It was very interesting to see the input format of your score processor.  It
looks fascinating -- hard to tell if it would be something other JI
composers would find helpful.  Could you comment on that?  Have you ever
thought about releasing your Pascal code?

Thanks!

Anthony Kozar
mailing-lists-1001 AT anthonykozar DOT net
http://anthonykozar.net/

P.S.  I really appreciated your comments about software currency!  I can
empathize since I clung until late last year to an "obsolete" operating
system from 1999 -- Mac OS 9.  I did feel it necessary to maintain Csound
for that OS though until I finally gave it up.

Prent Rodgers wrote on 4/20/09 7:00 PM:

> Here's my first take at an answer to Tobiah's challenge. I posted the score,
> preprocessor input, and MP3 of it to my weblog at
> http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/sines.html
> 
> It's a work in process, so far 87 seconds in one key. It sounds kind of like
> my other music, in 53 tone to the octave, based on semi-just intonation to
> the 11 limit. I used the preprocessor I use for all my other work, modified
> to use Tobiah's pfields. Turbo Pascal circa 1989 was used to modify the
> preprocessor. Still moves the bits around just fine for me...
> 
> Prent Rodgers
> 
> 
> 
> Send bugs reports to this list.
> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe
> csound"

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Prent Rodgers  wrote:
> Here's my first take at an answer to Tobiah's challenge. I posted the score,
> preprocessor input, and MP3 of it to my weblog at
> http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/sines.html
>
> It's a work in process, so far 87 seconds in one key. It sounds kind of like
> my other music, in 53 tone to the octave, based on semi-just intonation to
> the 11 limit. I used the preprocessor I use for all my other work, modified
> to use Tobiah's pfields. Turbo Pascal circa 1989 was used to modify the
> preprocessor. Still moves the bits around just fine for me...

Hi,
i'm a podcaster (and beginner csound user). My podcast is in italian,
and talk about gnu/linux audio,
free audio software, and free music (you can find older episode here:
http://gnufunk.org ).
I like this song, and i want to include them in my next episode, if you like it.
The podcast is released under CC not commercial.

If you agree, please tell me under what license tobiah1 is released
Thanks and congrats for your great blog and your music
Ciao

-- 
cb