source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 22:43:24 -0700 Subject: Re: UNSUBCRIBE STEVEP@CCNET.COM From: Steve tuning@eartha.mills.edu wrote: > > TUNING Digest 751 > > Topics covered in this issue include: > > 1) Post from McLaren > by John Chalmers > 2) Re: TUNING digest 750 > by John Starrett > 3) Fame for Microtonal Group!!!! > by hyperpoodle@mail.sisna.com (Doren Garcia) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Topic No. 1 > > Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 10:35:04 -0700 (PDT) > From: John Chalmers > To: tuning > Subject: Post from McLaren > Message-ID: > > From: mclaren > Subject: Jacques Dudon's new JI CD > -- > Jacques Dudon is a French composer who uses > patterned glass disks to generate music. > By spinning the disk and shining a light through > it onto a photoreceptor, Dudon is able to produce > periodic waveforms which become audible (when > amplified through a loudspeaker) as timbres. > Dudon's instrument has been featured in the journal > "Experimental Musical Instruments" on many > occasions. > By moving a slotted scrim between the light source and > disk, any by moving from the inner to the outer section of > the disk & vice versa, he is able to produce series > of pitches. > Now Jacques Dudon has come out with a CD of his > music. > The CD is called "Lumieres Audibles" (Audible Light) > and it consists entirely of just intonation music. > You might think that music created in this way would > be synthetic-sounding and fairly dull. Just the > opposite. > For many years, Dudon has been working with a computer > to generate exotic patterns for his spinning photo-acoustic > disks, and he now has a collection of some 500 of 'em. > Morevoer, he uses fractal patterns to generate fractal > waveforms along with irregular Walsh-series slotted > disks which produce extremely evanescent and organic- > sounding timbres. > "Lumieres Audibles" is remarkable, both for the quality of > the timbres and the artistry of the compositions. > The sounds on this CD are hard to describe. They sound > akin to some of the more sophisticated timbres that > can be produced with an anlog synthesizer, but more > ethereal and in some cases more "digital-sounding" than > standard analog timbres. In other cases, particularly > the fractal waveforms, Dudon conjures up timbres whose > only close relatives are timbres generated by elaborate > computer algorithms. > Jacques favors a tuning system which makes his pieces > sound middle eastern; he also uses drones, drum-like > timbres, and repeated tabla-type patterns generated from > interfering and cross-rhythmed slowly rotating glass > disks. (Dudon apparently uses some disks as "sequencer > disks" at a slow rate of rotation, and other disks as > "timbral" disks rotating much faster. By using 6 or > 7 different photodiodes and rotating disks, along > with volume pedals to switch between the different > timbres/sequences, Dudon can produce sonic tapestries > of remarkable subtlety and sophistication.) > For more about Dudon's just intonation tunings, see > the 1/1 article "7 Limit Slendro Mutations," Vol. 8, > No. 2, 1994. > This CD is *highly* recommended. > You can order one of these CDs from Jacques Dudon > at Atelier d'Exploration Harmonique - les Camails, > 83.340 LE THORONET - phone number 94.73.87.78 > --mclaren > > ------------------------------ > > Topic No. 2 > > Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:46:34 -0600 (MDT) > From: John Starrett > To: tuning > Subject: Re: TUNING digest 750 > Message-ID: > > Ladies and Gentlemen- > Yes it is true that the dyes are photosensitive, and will degrade > in direct sunlight, but with proper care they should last between 50 and > 100 years (according to manufacturer's accelerated aging tests). My > brother (CDR expert) estimates more conservatively at about 10 years with > the current media and sloppy handling. > There are a couple of good CDR drives going for $700 and the > media price has dropped to $6 per disk. Within a couple of months > Phillips, Sony and Yamaha drives will all be available for about $700 > (Bob says stay away from the JVC unit). CDR is not as permanent as CD > with real pits and lands, but a disk with a 10 year lifetime is more than > adequate for distribution to reviewers and radio stations as a promo > tool. > Brother Bob is going to loan me a Pinnacle CDR unit so that I may > learn to record CDR myself, and I will keep the forum updated on my > progress in the nerdly art. > John Starrett > > ------------------------------ > > Topic No. 3 > > Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 16:54:33 -0600 > From: hyperpoodle@mail.sisna.com (Doren Garcia) > To: tuning > Subject: Fame for Microtonal Group!!!! > Message-ID: > > I am writing a small piece on this forum to submit to 'WIRED' magazine. I > do not know if they will publish it. Any Objections? > > Doren > hyperpoodle@sisna.com > > ------------------------------ > > End of TUNING Digest 751 > ************************ UNSUBCRIBE STEVEP@CCNET.COM UNSUBCRIBE STEVEP@CCNET.COM Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:07 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA29026; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 06:07:11 -0700 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 06:07:11 -0700 Message-Id: <009A3FE66F54028D.54C2@ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu