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Microtonal Music|Podcast1024: Music by Joe Pehrson, Aaron Krister Johnson, Christopher Bailey Episode
Today's podcast will be a bit longer than usual, since I'm going to play the works of several composers - music by Joe Pehrson, Aaron Krister Johnson, and Christopher Bailey.But first, some words of advice from Eve Beglarian, who was profiled on a podcast put together by the talented composer Corey Dargel. His podcast, called Composers and the People Who Love Them, is a terrific collection of viewpoints on one composer by a variety of personalities. And they are quite the personalities. I'm going to play a clip of Eve being interviewed by Professor Heebie McJeebie:Play clip.I agree with Eve.On to the musical numbers. First up is Joe Pehrson. He writes about Inner Voices:Inner Voices is my first electronic piece which uses software, rather than hardware, synthesizers. I'm using the z3ta+ softsynth which reads "Scala" tuning files. Therefore, virtually any intonation can be realized. In this piece, I use the Blackjack scale, a 21 note scale which very closely emulates just intonation (non-beating intervals) within a margin of 2 or 3 cents. The z3ta+ is a very flexible softsynth and I use no presets: all the sounds are especially created. Sonar is my sequencer host and a second software synth, the TTS-1 creates percussion effects. I use quite a few of these, since they are handled so nicely by this second synth. I'm currently completing a version for electronic playback and 2 live percussionists.Listen to Inner Voices by Joe Pehrson.Next piece is by Aaron Krister Johnson, and is a suite of Four Pieces for Harpsichord: Praeludium distretto Contrapunctus null Eat My Two-Against-Three ADD Crisis Center Here's how he described them:3rd of August, 2005- four new works for 2/5-comma meantone tuned harpsichord.A note about the improvisations: I often do them in real-time at about half tempo, then, for a Nancarrow-like effect, they are sped up in tempo. But,yes; they are improvised real-time. And occasionally I'll fix a sloppy flamor something like a note not being held long enough which sounded choppy,etc.Listen now to Four Pieces for Harpsichord by Aaron Krister Johnson.The final piece of the podcast is a fun romp by Christopher Bailey called "Post-industrial Nuclear Thrash Mutated Smurfette JumpFest" by Christopher Bailey. He describes it as follows:I did it in ProTools, with a few basic plug-ins, samples, and an XV-3080 Synth. It's not systematically microtonal, just lots of random pitch-bends added to juice up thepitches. Plus a lot of the samples are kind of weirdly colored sonorities. Beyond that, I suppose the title speaks for itself.Listen now to music by Christopher Bailey, "Post-industrial Nuclear Thrash Mutated Smurfette JumpFest". Great stuff.
[ Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:18:00 GMT ]
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