Index
19edo vs. Carlos Beta
18 January 2011
My
recent
decision of adopting
Carlos Beta as a tuning system to
investigate prompted some considerations.
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Lonely Beta Woman
02 January 2011
Gamma major scales, a major labyrinth
04 December 2010
Reverse Engineering Transnotated Carlos Gamma Scores
01 November 2010
This article
explains how to edit MIDI notes (recorded playing my
Opal Chameleon through
Disarray) when starting from
a transnotated
score in Carlos Gamma. Read
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“C central” note layout Version 2
11 October 2010
Linus, Lucy and Halberstadt
06 October 2010
Two years
after “Goodbye
Halberstadt” and more than one
after ”Will
I ever bid farewell to
Halberstadt?” I still play the
piano, once in awhile! Read
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Transnotating Carlos Gamma
01 October 2010
Double Trouble
21 September 2010
As promised
at the end of my
previous article, I am posting a
couple of video examples employing the note
layouts presented there Read
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"C central" note layout
18 September 2010
This is one
more chapter of the saga about my search for the
ultimate Chameleon note layout
with Carlos Gamma tuning system
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Elba Gamma
01 September 2010
A review of “Musical Mathematics” by Cris Forster
22 August 2010
Bicycles and Bowls
21 August 2010
Edonoists Of The World Unite!
17 July 2010
I think I
coined the term EDONOI in July 2009 when I created
the group “Equal Division of Non-Octave Intervals” at
Xenharmonic Alliance Read
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Crack My Pitch Up
12 July 2010
I am very
pleased and honored to be part of this microtonal
compilation released by Split Notes Microtonal
Netlabel Read
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Gamma Breezin'
01 July 2010
The Solstice Song
20 June 2010
The premiere
of this song was broadcasted June 19th, 2010 as part
of the
Summer Solstice 2010 Online Streaming
Concert Read
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The Summer Solstice Online Streaming Concert
09 June 2010
16 hours of
live music streamed online: 23 artists from UK, USA,
Italy, Netherlands, Croatia, China and Sweden
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Gamma Raga
01 June 2010
MOTU Ethno2
violins, a Nord G2 drone sound and a few percussion
loops for an Indian setting. Read
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Delta Gamma Blues - Version 2
25 April 2010
Delta Gamma Blues...
13 April 2010
Dynamic modulation vs. static retuning techniques - part two
01 April 2010
Dynamic
Modulation “enables you to
instantly change the anchor settings of your scale,
to move the note that the tonic note of the scale
appears on to a new anchor key, and to transpose the
anchor frequency of the scale accordingly so that
things line up.” Read
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Dynamic modulation vs. static retuning techniques - part one
24 March 2010
This is the
first installment of a two-part article about
“dynamic modulation vs. static retuning
techniques” Read
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The Singing Alchemist
14 February 2010
This is a
song born from a couple of recent updates to my
setup: Camel Audio Alchemy BigTone sound library
and Spectral Vocoder, a Nord G2 patch by Swiss
synthesist Tim Kleinert Read
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MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues?
23 January 2010
Breath of the Chameleon
12 January 2010
Chameleon and me - a short video
23 December 2009
Gamma Monk and The Semitones
10 December 2009
One night I
had a dream of myself playing B*** M*** by T*********
M*** on my Opal Chameleon... Read
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Gamma Elegy
13 November 2009
A song
featuring a new note layout for an
isomorphic keyboard
and
Carlos Gamma tuning system
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Adagio Gamma Revisited
21 October 2009
Following my
previous blog entry I proceded to experiment with
“Gamma
Chameleon Notation”. Read
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Gamma Chameleon Notation
12 October 2009
This is my
first attempt at solving the notation problem playing
with Carlos Gamma tuning system and Opal Chameleon
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Bix in the sky with Gamma
13 September 2009
It's all Wendy Carlos' fault...
21 August 2009
Spectral Mappings for CARLOS GAMMA
15 August 2009
“Spectral mapping is a
transformation from a “source” spectrum to a
“destination” spectrum...it can be used to create
inharmonic instruments that retain much of the tonal
quality of familiar (harmonic)
instruments” - William A.
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RibboMan And The Maniacs
26 July 2009
If partials are inharmonic
22 July 2009
Soprano RibbonSax
13 July 2009
R2M and CC#1
09 July 2009
Moonlight Gamma Serenade
01 July 2009
Moonlight Gamma Serenade
is the
third piece I compose using the same mode
of Carlos Gamma after
Adagio Gamma
(see it
for explanations about this tuning system and the
related mode I use) and Gammalan... Read
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Will I ever bid farewell to Halberstadt?
20 June 2009
I don’t think
so but I am going to start experimenting with
alternative musical user interfaces, soon!
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Gammalan
01 May 2009
Gammalan, as the title
implies, is a composition based on
Carlos Gamma tuning system (the
same I used for Adagio
Gamma) using a gamelan
inspired virtual orchestra. Read
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Adagio Gamma
19 April 2009
This piece is
called Adagio Gamma because it is a slow
piece using Carlos Gamma tuning system.
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Let's get our hands dirty with JND!
03 April 2009
The Spiral of Fifths
27 March 2009
I am
preparing for an upcoming lecture, at NYU in
Florence, about the "Evolution of Tuning Systems", so, I am trying to
figure out a way to demonstrate some tuning
techniques in a comprehensible and "entertaining"
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Apple loops, Logic Pro 8 and MOTU 828MK3
13 February 2009
Underwater Dreaming
01 February 2009
Underwater Dreaming
started
out as an experiment while browsing the new sounds
of Spectrasonics Omnisphere 1.0.3
update... Read
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Neutral Steel
25 January 2009
Neutral Steel
is a song
for lap steel guitar and drums. It reminds me of
the style of Ry Cooder or Bill Frisell but with a
twist... Read
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88 Jingle Bells
20 December 2008
I have
arranged this version of Jingle Bells in 88cET just
in time for the Holidays!
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Carlos Glass 1
11 December 2008
Carlos Glass 1
is a short
example demonstrating DYNAMIC MODULATION. It means
live modulation changes during performance
transposing the anchor to the pitch and key of a
note in the original scale. Read
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88 Bulgarians
04 December 2008
An Omnisphere
choir sound tuned to 88cET (equal division of the
perfect fifth into 8 equal parts) for a
pseudo-Bulgarian folk song Read
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Goodbye Halberstadt
01 November 2008
The reason to
present this collection of tunes is to show my skill
as piano player and arranger in the environment of 12
tone equal tempered (12tET) tuning system using an
"Halberstadt keyboard". Read
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MoonSuite
01 October 2008
"Moonsuite" is an experiment
using an "empirical" tuning I made up while
studying LMSO's new tuning latch
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X.J.Scott and CC #90
29 September 2008
7EDO Dance
01 September 2008
Qablitum
01 August 2008
Qablitum is a piece inspired by
listening to a lecture of February 1971 by Lou
Harrison about "The Tuning of the Babylonian
Harp". The piece features a violin and a harp
using an ancient Mesopotamian scale
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Carlo for President
05 July 2008
Seriously, I
am running for President of the U.S.A.
You don't believe me?
Watch the movie...
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You don't believe me?
Watch the movie...
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Alphadesert
01 July 2008
Alphadesert is again a piece
featuring Carlos Alpha, a non-octave scale
based on the division of a perfect fifth into 9
equal parts (each step 77.995 cents)
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Alphapanther
01 June 2008
Alphapanther is an electronic
rendition of the famous "Pink Panther
Theme" by
Henry Mancini... Read
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Hijaz the Charmer
01 May 2008
A piece
composed using a dodecatonic mode of
53 EDO based on the
traditional Arabic mode called Maqam Hijaz... Read
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Switching from iWeb to RapidWeaver
11 April 2008
Retuning Logic Videos
31 March 2008
2 videos
showing the environment page of Logic Pro 8 configured for
retuning incoming midi data thru
LMSO... Read
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A Snow Airport and a Leopard
30 March 2008
I have had an
Airport base for a few years and, since upgrading to
Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard)... Read
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The positive side of bad things
27 March 2008
My accident
of few days ago, when I broke my right elbow,
reminded me of the teachings of Roberto Assagioli... Read
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The day I broke my elbow
12 March 2008
Today I have
fallen down some stairs hitting each of the 9 steps
with my right elbow... Read
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