CD available at
- Bandcamp (also download/stream)
- Forced Exposure
- more soon
Liner notes: Dean Rosenthal essay, credits, etc.
Technical details for the piece Involution (Disc 1)
Scales
Wilson-Grady Meta-Slendro tuning (Involution 1)
- 5-note MOS scale: 65/64, 151/128, 43/32, 49/32, 57/32
- 7-note MOS scale: 1/1, 9/8, 37/32. 5/4, 21/16, 3/2, 7/4
Grady Centaur tuning (Involution 2)
- Prometheus scale, a just version: 1/1, 9/8, 5/4, 7/5, 5/3, 7/4
- Marwa scale, a just version: 1/1, 21/20, 5/4, 7/5, 5/3, 15/8
Dual Hexany tuning (Involution 3)
- Double hexany scale: a 1-3-5-7 hexany (1/1, 7/6, 5/4, 32/24, 5/3, 7/4) , duplicated and transposed up by a major 5-limit half-step (16/15). Combined, they form a 12-note scale where the two hexanies alternate, analogous to whole-tone scales in a conventional tuning.
Hardware
- 2HP: ADSR (x2), Clock, Switch
- Bastl: LOL
- Instruo: øchd
- Expert Sleepers: Disting Mk 4
- Make Noise: DPO, Maths, Mimeophon, ModDemix, Optomix, QPAS, René, Tempi, Wogglebug, X-Pan
- Noise Engineering: Loquelic Iteritas
- Tubbutec: µTune
- Raspberry Pi 4
- Eventide H9
Code
The computer portion of Involution is built on the The Implication Organ, Csound code: https://github.com/DaveSeidel/music-src/tree/master/implication-organ
Modular Synthesizer Layout and Patch Diagram
Notes on Hexany Permutations (Disc 2)
Source Code
Hexany Permutations was written in Csound, with the score generated by Python. The source code is available here.
Score
Hexany Permutations was created as a piece of electronic music, but could theoretically be performed by an ensemble of low-ish strings (eg, cellos, violas, or violas da gamba) as long as each player can commit to playing one oddly-tuned pitch (each player has their own pitch). With that possibility in mind I created a score and parts. If you are interested in performing this piece, get in touch.
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