source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:59:11 -0700 Subject: RE: NYC 6/8/96: Lamonte Young and the Fo From: PAULE James Jeude wrote: >Lamonte started out with an extended keyboard part, using what I guess in >General Midi would be a "celeste" or maybe "detuned guitar" sound that was >percussive enough to shake the room yet had clean decay that allowed the >beat interactions between the notes to come through. I'm not sure what key >or specific tuning system he was using, but the minor third that dominated >the first 20 minutes of the 2:45 set seemed to be "flat" compared to 12tet. > After another 20 minutes or so of densely packed notes, perhaps best >described as frantic arpeggios, the bass joined in and some time later the >guitar and drummer joined the flight. Funny, I thought the keyboard sound was a very accurate emulation of an acoustic piano. Maybe James was sitting in an acoustically unfortunate location (I was in the rear alcove). The "Dorian" scale sounded to me like 1/1 9/8 7/6 4/3 3/2 5/3 7/4 2/1, with a flatted fifth of some sort thrown in. However, I could be wrong because there was a distinctly out-of-tune fifth in there somewhere (although maybe that was just the interval between the 7/4 and the 8/3). The frantic arpeggios seemed to be a means of projecting the pure, resonant coinciding overtones that resulted from the pure tuning. I suppose the faster the arpeggios are, the less variation is heard in the intensity of these overtones, as all the phase-cancellation and reinforcement would average out, but I was surprised at how the overtones did not seem to be subject to the attack or inevitable release (how many notes can the Korg sustain at once? infinity?) of the notes. Anyone know how LaMonte does it? I think I read that he claimed to have such a fine control of timing that he could make a certain overtone resonate by repeatedly striking a key ar keys just at the crest of its cycle. Is this really humanly possible? Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 06:31 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA14853; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:31:28 -0700 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:31:28 -0700 Message-Id: <199606110429.WAA12654@freenet.uchsc.EDU> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu