Hi Dave,

I didn't see anyone reply: I thoroughly enjoyed this work and loved
the scanned synthesis instrument used.  Beautiful work!

steven

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Dave Seidel  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today I released Hexany Permutations on Bandcamp on pay-as-you-wish basis:
>
>     https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/album/hexany-permutations
>
> From the liner notes:
>
>> Hexany Permutations is inspired by Tom Johnson's piece "The Chord
>> Catalogue," where all of the possible chords that occur within one octave
>> for a given scale are presented: all two-note chords, all three-noted
>> chords, and so on, with each chord played exactly once. This piece takes the
>> idea a step further to explore several different permutations (orderings) of
>> a catalog. It also differs from Johnson's work (or at least from his own
>> interpretation of his work) in several other respects; in particular, the
>> use of a microtonal scale, the emphasis on long tones (notes that appear in
>> adjacent chords are tied), and the use of synthesis (though I will note that
>> this piece could be performed by seven strings). One of my goals was to
>> really explore the intervallic resources of this scale and tuning by
>> presenting all of the possible chords in multiple sequences.
>
>
>>
>> The just intonation scale used here is a 1-3-5-7 hexany with seven notes
>> (including the octave), giving 120 unique chords. The scale uses the
>> following ratios: 1/1, 7/6, 5/4, 35/24, 5/3, 7/4, 2/1, and is tuned to 1/1 =
>> 180 Hz. The sounds are produced using a scanned synthesis technique that
>> yields harmonically-rich tones that slowly evolve in timbre over the course
>> of their duration.
>
>
>>
>> Hexany Permutations was made with Csound and Python on a Linux laptop. All
>> sounds are generated by Csound, driven by score events generated from Python
>> code.
>
>
> I should add that I adapted Tarmo's scanned synthesis instrument (from the
> CsoundQT examples) for this piece. Thanks Tarmo!
>
> I hope you enjoy it.
>
> - Dave
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