Tuesday, June 22, 2010

I am happy to've started playing around with 31-tet again. The timbre I'm working on right now is a sort of organ-like thing in one way, and sort of clarinety in another (that one's attributable to only having odd harmonics). I should also prolly make some more varying timbres, and I should absolutely figure out some way of getting a sensibly pretty, yet distinctive and individual kind of attack to the sounds.

Gonna try out some approximations of 5:6:7 (and the utonal 7/7, 7/6, 7/5 subdim chord), 5:7:9 chords, maybe some 9/9:9/7:9/5-ish stuff, and of course just living up the septimal bliss that 7/4 and 7/6 provide. (7/5 sounds less nice, but meh, can't have everything).

After expending some effort on finding a document I don't think I've read since 2005, I found http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/modename.html again. It's apparently moved around a bit since back in the day. I remember trying a few of those scales last time rather haphazardly. I hope my increased knowledge of counterpoint, harmony, etc will give me better chances of composing something worthwhile.

I haven't composed anything microtonal since 2003ish!