 This is a podcast that plays microtonal music, which is music that exploits tuning systems that are different from the standard 12 tone to the octave scale that's dominated Western Music for the past 500 years. On each show, I'll say a few words, then play a piece composed by one of many modern microtonal composers. I hope that this exposure will help you understand a little more of the world between the 2:1 and the 1:1.Primary Format :
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Some Neo-Medieval MusicToday I'm going to play about a half an hour of music by an assortment of composers who have posted announcements of their pieces on the Yahoo Group, Make Micro Music. This is a mailing list of composers who like to make microtonal music, like to talk about making microtonal music, and like to let others of similar interest listen to their work. If you are listening to this podcast, I'd recommend that you join the group to be notified when someone has created a new piece. I've accumulated a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast1024: Tidal Falls by Jonathan SzantoToday's podcast is a piece by Jonathan Szanto, written for a dance performance. He writes: Tidal Falls - I got called very late (4 weeks before performance) to create a score for a dance piece that already existed. The piece was metered, and has both metric and tempo changes in sections; therefore, the bulk of the piece already had an existing tempo/meter format. Flowing/falling water is the theme of the piece, including an actual working 'fountain' on stage that dancers go into. Water soun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast1024: Crickets by Kraig GradyToday's podcast is a very short but delightful piece by Kraig Grady. He calls it an experiment, but I think it's so great, I'm going to play it twice today. He writes:I had meant to go into Logic Vocoder and see whatIi could do with noise to illustrate to Bill [Sethares] what it might do. But it didn't work at all. While I was there I somehow ended up doing this.--Kraig GradyNorth American Embassy of Anaphoria Island The Wandering Medicine ShowKXLU 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los AngelesIt's called ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast1024: Maple Manytet by Bill SetharesToday's episode is a work in progress by Bill Sethares. From his description:I've been working on mapping procedures to take the partials (overtones) from a sound (the source) and move them somewhere else (the destination).The application is to create sounds (currently planning on using Kontakt [from Native Instruments]) that have spectra specially designed for particular tunings.As I've been playing with the algorithms, I have been "trying them out" on complete mixes and have some interest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast1024: Music by Joe Pehrson, Aaron Krister Johnson, Christopher BaileyToday'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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bumper Music: Balloon Drum Music 10Today's podcast is bumper music. Just something to cleanse your audio pallette. There are some balloon drums in this work-in-progress.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Balloon Drum Music 11This is some more bumper music. Today's entry includes slides from one key to the next in the bridge. It takes what used to sound rather conventional, and makes it into a catfight in Arabia. Or something like that.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bumper Music: Balloon Drum Music 12I think this one is just about ready. Here's a section from version 2 at 3:40 in. Note the flutes. Nice octave shift. Everything is moving either geographically or glissandiacallyListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Balloon Drum MusicToday's podcast is a performance of my latest piece, called Balloon Drum Music. It is scored for Balloon Drums, Oboe, Flutes, Guitar, and Finger Piano. The piece starts out with a simple chord progession for the winds, with finger piano bass, that sounds sort of like this:Bb majorEb majorG minorand so on.When it is played, it sounds like a conventional progression. But in actuality, the chords are from the Partch Tonality Diamond, and their names in Sagittal notation are shown on the blog p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The World Has SeenAn excerpt from a work in progress, from the baritone aria in the Opera: The War on Terror.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Microtonal Solo Piano MusicI have a real treat for today's podcast. I'm going to play four different microtonal pieces by four different composers, all for solo piano. Each was done using a different set of techniques to retune the piano, with different intonation systems, and all showcase the world between the 1:1 and the 2:1. The first is by Aaron Krister Johnson, with a piece called Study for Kyle Gann. Here's what Aaron wrote about the piece: In honor of his wonderful neo-Nancarrow work on the 'Studies for Disk ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Make Microtonal Music Day 2006 - Part 2In part two of the Microtonal Music Day 2006 podcast, we're going to hear from 12 more microtonal composers, in another feast of
microtonality. As I said in yesterday's installment, this podcast is a
result of the efforts of dozens of composers and musicians who feel
that microtonal music deserves wider recognition. The idea was hatched
on the Making Microtonal Music Yahoo Groups mailing list,
and has grown thanks to the efforts of that group. The idea is to pick
a day, and just "flood ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Make Microtonal Music Day 2006 - Part 1For complete show notes, see the Bumper Music Podcast site.
In today's podcast, we're going to hear from 10 microtonal composers, in a feast of microtonality. This podcast is a result of the efforts of dozens of composers and musicians who feel that microtonal music deserves wider recognition. This is part 1. Tommorrow we'll try to get part 2 up with the other 13 composers who are participating in Making Microtonal Music Day 2006. In today's podcast, you can hear from:
Harry Partch Readi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Microtonal Solo Piano MusicI have a real treat for today's podcast. I'm going to play four different microtonal pieces by four different composers, all for solo piano. Each was done using a different set of techniques to retune the piano, with different intonation systems, and all showcase the world between the 1:1 and the 2:1.The first is by Aaron Krister Johnson, with a piece called Study for Kyle Gann. Here's what Aaron wrote about the piece:In honor of his wonderful neo-Nancarrow work on the 'Studies for Disklavi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The World Has SeenAn excerpt from a work in progress, from the baritone aria in the Opera: The War on Terror.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast1024: Tidal Falls by Jonathan SzantoToday's podcast is a piece by Jonathan Szanto, written for a dance performance. He writes: Tidal Falls - I got called very late (4 weeks before performance) to create a score for a dance piece that already existed. The piece was metered, and has both metric and tempo changes in sections; therefore, the bulk of the piece already had an existing tempo/meter format. Flowing/falling water is the theme of the piece, including an actual working 'fountain' on stage that dancers go into. Water soun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast1024: Crickets by Kraig GradyToday's podcast is a very short but delightful piece by Kraig Grady. He calls it an experiment, but I think it's so great, I'm going to play it twice today. He writes:I had meant to go into Logic Vocoder and see whatIi could do with noise to illustrate to Bill [Sethares] what it might do. But it didn't work at all. While I was there I somehow ended up doing this.--Kraig GradyNorth American Embassy of Anaphoria Island The Wandering Medicine ShowKXLU 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los AngelesIt's called ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast1024: Maple Manytet by Bill SetharesToday's episode is a work in progress by Bill Sethares. From his description:I've been working on mapping procedures to take the partials (overtones) from a sound (the source) and move them somewhere else (the destination).The application is to create sounds (currently planning on using Kontakt [from Native Instruments]) that have spectra specially designed for particular tunings.As I've been playing with the algorithms, I have been "trying them out" on complete mixes and have some interest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Podcast1024: Music by Joe Pehrson, Aaron Krister Johnson, Christopher BaileyToday'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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bumper Music: Balloon Drum Music 10Today's podcast is bumper music. Just something to cleanse your audio pallette. There are some balloon drums in this work-in-progress.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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