Congratulations, Aaron!

What kind of scale do you use in the piece? 



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Hi Aaaron,

I enjoyed this piece very much, thanks!  Will you be (or have you
already) posted the source for the project?  I'd like to study the
piece further if possible.

Thanks!
steven

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 8:43 AM, d.vyd@outlook.com  wrote:
> Aaron, the timbres and composition are both beautiful. Thank you for sharing
> and raising my interest in microsound!
>
>
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This is great Aaron, many thanks for sharing this!

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Aaron Krister Johnson
 wrote:
> For Steven and others:
>
> The microcsound score:
>
>     https://untwelve.org/static/microcsound/for_juhani.mc.txt
>
> The intermediate .sco file output by microcsound:
>
>     https://untwelve.org/static/microcsound/for_juhani.sco.txt
>
> The only instrument used in the piece is # 13 in this file:
>
>     https://untwelve.org/static/microcsound/microcsound_basic.orc.txt
>
> Thanks again for your interest,
> AKJ
>
>
> Aaron Krister Johnson
> http://www.untwelve.org
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Aaron Krister Johnson 
> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for your interest and listens to the piece, everybody.
>>
>> The piece is using 7-edo (equal division of the octave), so it has the
>> property of semitones being expanded and whole-tones being squashed....so,
>> basically, a diatonic scale with equal step sizes. It gives it that vaguely
>> exotic, near-eastern sound. :D
>>
>> I employed the technique of mensuration canon; at ~1 minute in, when the
>> 'ghost-like' higher voice enters with an echo of the main line, it's at 2/3
>> the speed (or, alternatively, 3/2 the note lengths) of the main line. The
>> 7-equal scale is forgiving of clashes that might ensue from this technique;
>> otherwise, composing in such a way a-la Josquin Deprez or Ockeghem (check
>> out the Josquin Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales, or Ockeghem's
>> Missa Prolationum) is a much more demanding and time-consuming affair. I'm
>> fond of the effect; to me, it's a bit like a kaleidoscopic room where you
>> are experiencing the same narrative on multiple temporal planes. 7-equal
>> also has the effect, for me, of heightening the effect of being 'suspended
>> in time without a sense of necessary direction'. Debussy's early experiments
>> with 6-edo (whole tone scale) were clearly after the same affect.
>>
>> A little note on the compositional evolution: I wrote the main line and
>> the "ghost echo" first; I liked it, but I felt something was missing.
>> Something _grounding_. It was a complex melodic cycle, ending up being 157
>> '8th notes' long, and we needed some "digestive enzymes" for the ear. So I
>> hit on the idea of a bass voice that would mostly drone a "tonic" (which
>> sometimes moves and creates temporary tonal centers) and also serve as a
>> temporal landmark for where we are in the melodic cycle, since the lines are
>> highly syncopated. In the first iteration of composing the drone line, the
>> bass entered exactly on the downbeat in the opening. But then, I tweaked it
>> to be itself syncopated, and come in on the weaker parts of the beat. This
>> gave the drone line it's own funky life, as well as anchoring the other
>> voices. I felt that satisfied the need I was feeling....without that
>> anchoring lower voice, it didn't quite gel the way I needed it to.
>>
>> Steven, I'll respond a little later with a link to the source so you can
>> see what's going on. I'll include the microcsound source file (.mc), the
>> equivalent .sco file, and the orchestra instrument, which is basically the
>> same instrument I posted a few days ago that Victor Lazzarini was so kind to
>> share and let me hack away at.
>>
>> Best.
>> AKJ.
>>
>> Aaron Krister Johnson
>> http://www.untwelve.org
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Steven Yi  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Aaaron,
>>>
>>> I enjoyed this piece very much, thanks!  Will you be (or have you
>>> already) posted the source for the project?  I'd like to study the
>>> piece further if possible.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> steven
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 8:43 AM, d.vyd@outlook.com 
>>> wrote:
>>> > Aaron, the timbres and composition are both beautiful. Thank you for
>>> > sharing
>>> > and raising my interest in microsound!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > -d. vyd
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