~~~~~~~~~~Updates From The Visionary Geography of Anaphoria Island.
Mesotonal Music. (Just intonation and Microtonal systems).
Th idea of this page is a place to state some short stray ideas in company with other such ideas that seems to demand some place to live. thus this page can and will be updated without notice. it looks like new post are no longer possible here so this might be the last page by default even thugh much of the material is older 1. When composing if the thought of another composer enters and pulls my…
Probably the best description of myself is that of a Saturationist. I see in saturation as important means to the creation of a transcendental space. One of the foremost qualities of saturation is that it is immersive in placing the listener embedded in an sonic environment which is not only above and below them but spills outward in waves that blend with the infinityof waves all around us. It…
For any composers interested in doing a followup to Xenakis' Nomos Alpha, here is a pitch based option. While Wilson had plotted out the cube, he also did one for the hypercube which i added some factors, a different rotation with dyads closer to the best fifth possible with 1 thru 15 to my own with pure fifths Since the only links are via dyads the piece is bound to be pretty dissonant but higher…
While I am not a guitar player, I have nevertheless observed how the instrument is played and used as most of us who are non players. It has struck me that at one possibility has been over looked which i will explain here and provide one example, not to be definitive tuning but as an good example of what i see as a fruitful direction for the instrument. The tuning of a guitar can be thought of as…
Having to support myself while a music maker required other means. I ended up working as a scenic artist in Hollywood. I started at the bottom which consisted of having to clean the rollers, buckets, brushes, and whatever else needed to be cleaned up and only then would i get out onto the floor. While a noisy environment, i would still listen to the classical channel as a good contrast to the…
Music imposes itself on its environment as much as the other way around. It has always refused to be held back and anything and everything is fair game. Much like animals in the deepest areas of the ocean have produced their own light, music has always found a way to develop with what it has on hand. It is quite astounding how earth’s music cultures have not duplicated their forms elsewhere except…
We are excited to release our field recording from the port of Barsa. Most of the information can be found on our bandcamp page LAKE ALOE FESTIVAL but here we add the both the relationship between the tempos and the the metric subdivisions.
Another Timbre has released a work of Kraig Grady called Monument of Diamonds. Composed over a two-year period. It uses a 17 tone scale which expands upon the 12 tone merta-slendro tuning common to the Anaphorian shadow ensembles throughout the island. Grady considers it one of his best and one of his most beautiful compositions and a useful sound work to everyone. Here is where you can get it…
[moved here from other temporary blog] While discovered in 2009 by Joan Taylor, Llama Island has only recently come to the attention of the music world of Anaphoria Island despite it being within a two days southerly sailing distance. The indigenous inhabitants of that island have been aware since ancient times of how well their island 'tiles' space in an aperiodic way as the sole unit. One would…
It has been desirable to be able to play chords on a mallet instrument in a fashion similar to what can be done on Harry Partch's Diamond Marimba and Quadrangularis Reversum where one can scrape a mallet downward as in the former or upward in the latter to arpeggiate a full harmonic or subharmonic hexad. What is presented here preserves this spirit of being able to scape triads that mimics the…
As an island nation of exiles and foreigners, the assumption has always been that the genetic makeup of the Anaphorian people would be as mixed as the world at large. Well, surprise surprise. We now know this not to be the case. DNA expert Jonathon Grasse of the Panpsychic Institute who has spent the last three years taking samples of any and everyone has come up with results no one expected,…
KRAIG GRADY :: Chippewayan Echoes from MicroFest on Vimeo .
Composition for Composers #1 These compositions seek to address the situation where there are more worthy composers than concert space can accomodate. Nuclear Simphony #1 for 2 to 18 composers There are 5 movements maximum in a performance each involving following number of composers. Each movement can be performed separately Movement A-5 composers Movement B-2 composers Movement C-3 composers…
I try to avoid the word Microtonality like the plague. I never mention it on releases except for one time i included one sentence for which I was called out for by one critic (sic?). If though we are going to tolerate the term , which encompasses more and more each day, perhaps it might be good to draw the line in the sand somewhere. As a start and to get to the point: It should be intentional.…
Still researching other resonator options but this works for the time being.
This blog post is basically a handy list of written resources for those interested in Just intonation and microtonality starting from the simplest to the more specialized and detailed. We suggest owning hard copies as all serve as important references. The Just intonation Primer by David B. Doty http://www.dbdoty.com/Words/Primer1.html On The Sensations of Tone. Hermann Helmholtz…
Wilson's Chart of the Mt. Meru/Lambdoma interface Today, as never before, we are witnessing an opposition not between art and life, but between sacral and secular spaces. -Ilya Kabakov In the process of my wife, Terumi Narushima working on her book on Erv Wilson's Tuning innovations, the subject of the Partch's Diamond and its origin have come up. What strikes myself is that how this structure…
DETAIL SHOWING DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE HRZ 432 VIRUS It didn't take long for a non fatal but extremely debilitating virus to sweep and fan wide spread panic. " I was just filled with nausea and feelings of vision of no future. I felt stuck with no motivation could no longer eat, especially any food that hadn't been tried before" reported one citizen hit with one of the worse cases . Without any clear…
Riley's 5 limit tuning for "Harp of New Albion" I had recently replaced my missing copy of Harp of New Albion by Terry Riley and decided to lattice out the tuning which i guess many might have already done. It is interesting in how La monte uses 7 limit intervals to approximate 5 and here we have Riley doing the opposite with the 16/15 over the 15/8 7 cents shy of an 8/7. Riley's use of the tuning…
The Dowsing Poles This instrument grew out of a desire to have something like Tubular Bells to add to my ensemble of Meta-Slendro instruments. This tuning is anything but a conventional Slendro encompassing instruments using 12, 17 and 22 unequally spaced pitches in the octave informed by both traditional sources and recurrent sequence mathematics. In order to realize such a Tubular Bell…
This paper is an addition to the Journal of Anaphorian Music Theory that looks at one set of progressions that occur within the normal 12 tone scale. The overall idea is that analogous structures can be constructed in other systems but worth sharing with a broader music community for those interested in what can be done with pitch. http://anaphoria.com/flatlandbastard.pdf
Meru Set 1 - Back of Screen 1 Before I write about my final installation presented at UOW, on this blog, i wish to focus on the musical aspect of the installation separately as a mirror from the way it was realised. For the moment I resist classifying this as sound art for reason which I will explain. Usually from that perspective, sound is an added element to a visual display. In this particular…
0 0 1 221 1262 Embassy of Anaphoria 10 2 1481 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE This short but distinct book by the respected historian Vunos Rainter is now available at the Center of Alphabetical Sequencing. Already it is being heralded as an important work in detailing the unique methods of protesting during the last great upheaval on the island more than a century ago. Since the…
Here is a page of a document added to The Journal of Anaphorian Music Theory . The document looks at one simple way one can derive tetrachordal scales from a subharmonic series. Such scales have been observed on equally spaced holes on flutes as well possibly the Greek Aulos. Regardless of the case, the scales manage to touch upon some well known ancient Greek ones as well as presenting a method…
Here is an almost year old video clip from Yours and Owl's in Wollongong. It might be my favorite video on youtube as it seem to have less problems with it than the others. It is too bad the slower beginning didn't make in in, but it stands on its own. With Terumi Narushima as the duo Clocks and Clouds. A big thanks to Rory Anderson for putting this together on the fly.