Saturday, October 8, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Jim French
featuring Diamanda Galas and Henry Kaiser
1979
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Jim French - If Looks Could Kill
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Cipher
"The band Cipher (Los Angeles-late 70s to mid 80s) played in a 7-limit 22-tone scale of Erv Wilson. The intonation was done under the guidance of Jose Garcia who refretted all the guitars and bass. Co-composer, Marsha Mann, who was the lead singer and lyricist for the band, also sang in the same tuning. They appeared on New Wave Theater. Cipher is listed and pictured (above The Clash) in the 1985 illustrated encyclopedia, 'Who's New Wave in Music', by David Blanco, who refers to them as a 'microtonal dance band'."
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Cipher - Self Titled EP
Monday, March 21, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The Miracle of Bali
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Tuning@eartha.mills.edu - A Microtonal Music Experience
A collection of various microtonal works compiled by Neil Haverstick.Artists and song list:
01 - Stephen James Taylor - Mood of Neptune-Ashes Before the Sky
02 - Warren Burt - 12x12-Evening in Landcox Park
03 - John Starrett - Citified Nations
04 - Bill Sethares - Glass Lake
05 - Neil Haverstick - Snake Dance
06 - John Loffink -Resuscitation
07 - Richard Sanford - Pient Molles
08 - Denny Genovese - Matrix
09 - John Starrett - Limp Off to School
10 - Ernie Crews - Vilano
11 - Bill Alves - Just On Time
12 - Carter Scholz - Kaleidophon
13 - Bill Sethares - Duet for Morphine and Cymbal
14 - Garry Morrison - New Awakening
Complete notes included with download.
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Tuning@eartha.mills.edu - A Microtonal Music Experience
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Easley Blackwood: Twelve Microtonal Etudes For Electronic Music Media
Pictured is the original artwork for the private release of Easley Blackwood's album Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media. Using a polyfusion synth, Blackwood composes and performs an etude for each equal temperament; 13 through 24 divisions of the octave.On this CD remaster there are an additional 4 tracks; Suite for Guitar in 15-note Equal Tuning performed by Jeffrey Kust.
The first track on the album is not part of the 12 etudes; it is titled Fanfare in 19-note Equal Tuning. This album is a must have for anyone exploring microtonality and alternate divisions of the octave.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Monday, October 19, 2009
Ivan Wyschnegradsky
"Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979) was a microtonal composer known primarily for his quarter-tone compositions, although he wrote a dozen works for conventional tuning, and several works for third-, sixth-, eighth-, and twelfth-tone, as well as one work using Fokker’s thirty-one equal divisions of the octave. Over the course of his career, Wyschnegradsky invented many systems to organize pitch in his compositions, and he eventually settled upon a system that he called “ultrachromatic” in which microtonal interval cycles generate sets that do not repeat their pitch content at octave transpositions.
Wyschnegradsky’s 24 Préludes dans l’échelle chromatique diatonisée à 13 sons, Op.22 (1934, rev. 1960 and 1970) does not use the ultrachromatic system, but is based on a quarter-tone scale generated by a cycle of ic 5.5. There are 24 unique transpositions of Wyschnegradsky’s scale, and the set of 24 Preludes is a cycle in which each of the 24 transpositions forms the basis of the pitch material for a single prelude, recalling such earlier works as Chopin’s Preludes or Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier that cycle through all available keys."
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- Préludes dans tous les tons de l'échelle chromatique diatonisée à 13 sons (24), for 2 pianos in quarter tones. Op. 22 (1934, rev. 1960)
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