Friday, April 29, 2005

Bumper Music for Today - from an Idea of Christopher Bailey

This is based on an idea of Christopher Bailey - compose something for his least liked chord, the C-G-C# triad. He asked if there is a tuning that could be based on this, and several theoreticians came up with some ideas. Mine is that the Partch Tonality Diamond, taken to the 15 limit, has many instances that approach this triad. Here's a graph of the C overtones using Sagittal notation.
The Finger Piano uses several different chords from this list. The Alto Flute plays whatever makes sense.

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This is a work in progress...

Friday, April 08, 2005

Bumper Music for Today

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This is an excerpt from the piece called Subduction Zone, which is available from the SoundClick web site. Go there and search for Subduction Zone to hear the whole song. Liner Notes are available here. Today's bumper music is the last 60 seconds or so of the piece. Enjoy!