source file: m1577.txt Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 02:13:30 -0800 Subject: Mathew Rosenblum on UCSD concert From: monz@juno.com Attended a concert tonight at UCSD which featured the New York Contemporary Ensemble. I was surprised and pleased to find that two of the five pieces were by Mathew Rosenblum, who composes microtonally using a unique tuning which he partially explained to me. It's evolved from a 19- to a 21-tone system, which contains the usual 12-equal, and also other notes which form just ratios with those and with each other. Not yet totally clear yet on how that works -- he'll explain more elaborately to me by email, and I'll be describing it in my book (and probably on the website). He has his keyboard player on a 12-equal piano and an electronic sampler which has the microtonal notes. Some of the percussion instruments are apparently in a matching tuning, and the strings and winds adjust when necessary. The piece "Maggies" was particularly good, and had some really beautiful chords with non-12-eq notes in them. Mathew is from New York, and now teaches at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. - Joe Monzo monz@juno.com http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]