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In my opinion the actual activity of any artist isn't expression of feeling, but self exploration. That involves questioning not only what you're doing, but how you're doing it, why you're doing it, w ...

Another obstacle and/or inducement is the titles of individual pieces. A "bad" title will assure that your piece is overlooked, whereas a "cool" title will get even the worst song ...

Yikes! Sometimes 12 is too many for me!

In that project, I reckon I didn't even use half of the 31 available - they were just there in case I needed them.

I saw Ravi perform and swap licks with ...

Call me old and cynical but I'm pretty much convinced*** that musicology has basically done it all*. As soon as "music" in the academic scene embraced everything from pure noise to a composi ...

With a mere twelve notes per octave available in the standard "European" musical scale we still have infinite possibilites.

Just as no two snowflakes, two blades of grass or two grains of ...

Jarre's Holy Trinity for me:
1. Oxygene
2. Equinoxe
3. Les Chants Magnétiques

Interesting. I had also come to think of these 3 as a set (because the sound of the later albums was so differen ...

I had the same experience when I was playing with some algorithmic composition tools: you had to fiddle a lot with the parameters to get something out of it. Eventually I realized one of the key thing ...

I just bought a DX27 with one missing key for £12! (about $18 ) Very Happy

Ah yes - I have a DX11 with about 20 missing LFOs! Er, no, wait, that seems to be the actual spec. Sad

Having only 2 LFOs t ...

This makes me wonder if there has been any testing of applying vitamin C to wounds for healing purposes. It should be noted that I was kind of experimenting as I often do, and I was also applying gel ...

that's probably the first of a long list of epiphanies you'll get while working with microtones

I hope so, although at the moment I'm just glad that I haven't got myself too badly stuck in a corner ...

It's amazing where the circle of 5ths turns up... (yes this is going to get into some heavy-ish music theory!)

The layout I used on my microtonal keyboard (31 notes per octave which I'll be using ...

Actually I was referring to the orientation of the dimensioning cuts relative to the concentric ring structure of the wood. From what I can see they are all ideal (maximally stable in terms of tangen ...

It would be nice to have a picture with your hands on the keyboard to figure out the key size.

Here we go - this is me playing a C major chord with my left hand. Lots of fingers flying around and ...

I find that a pejorative view Smile

And historically it is incorrect. Bach, Vivaldi, et al. certainly did not think it important nor expect that their music would always be performed on the same inst ...

he's speculating that electronic music is the truest way for a composer's vision to be realized without any interference, be it showboating, interpretation, any kind of variable on the part of the per ...

The carefully radially sawn fir strips appear to be passive mechanical support elements. Is that correct?

Exactly - I glued all the wooden components together into a single fixed structure. The s ...

Thanks Carlo - I'll be playing around with this keyboard for a while and I hope to get more confident about composing in 31et as a result!

It would be nice to have a picture with your hands on the ...

Well I've finally got this microtonal keyboard built and working.

It's designed for an equal temperament of 31 notes per octave. The white keys are the notes A-G (but not quite the same as the ...

He who has the most oscillators when he dies has won.

Shocked

Softsynths don't count, right?

Gordon

My brain is the perfect synth. It's just that when I go to get the music out, it all goes horribly wrong Shocked

I also find that the finished music never quite turns out as good as the original i ...

i used to have a Behringer back in the day, while it was alright, it still had some hum or hiss to it. Just not as clear as i hoped for. This was in the 90's, so i'm wondering if maybe there were impr ...

A question for composers who do not find harmonic cadences relevant to their work: Do you every think of your work in terms of sections and stages? And if so, do you reflect on the nature of the &qu ...

Sounds like you want an
I would love to hear some samples when you get it.

As it turns out, the page for this synth that I posted above, does link to some audio samples here:

http://www.arturi ...

What's your dream synth?

First thing that occurs to me: I'd like a Poly Evolver with 16 voices/parts, independent full audio fx, and (this is the bit you can't do by patching multiple hardware tog ...

Now this is a Schmooze subject I could go on all day about! Very Happy

Balvenie Doublewood 12yr is an all round favourite. There is a Doublewood 15 I had once, but I've not seen it since the one, it was ...

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Topic: The fickle nature of artistic temperament
Octahedra Replies: 25 Views: 14840	Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:20 am Subject: The fickle nature of artistic temperament Forum: Discussion » Schmooze
Octahedra Replies: 25 Views: 14840	In my opinion the actual activity of any artist isn't expression of feeling, but self exploration. That involves questioning not only what you're doing, but how you're doing it, why you're doing it, w ...
Topic: What's in a name?
Octahedra Replies: 3 Views: 5372	Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:00 am Subject: Re: What's in a name? Forum: Discussion » Composition
Octahedra Replies: 3 Views: 5372	Another obstacle and/or inducement is the titles of individual pieces. A "bad" title will assure that your piece is overlooked, whereas a "cool" title will get even the worst song ...
Topic: Creating a New Musical Style - your way
Octahedra Replies: 31 Views: 38665	Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:09 pm Subject: Creating a New Musical Style - your way Forum: Discussion » Composition
Octahedra Replies: 31 Views: 38665	Yikes! Sometimes 12 is too many for me! In that project, I reckon I didn't even use half of the 31 available - they were just there in case I needed them. I saw Ravi perform and swap licks with ...
Topic: Creating a New Musical Style - your way
Octahedra Replies: 31 Views: 38665	Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:55 pm Subject: Creating a New Musical Style - your way Forum: Discussion » Composition
Octahedra Replies: 31 Views: 38665	Call me old and cynical but I'm pretty much convinced*** that musicology has basically done it all*. As soon as "music" in the academic scene embraced everything from pure noise to a composi ...
Topic: Creating a New Musical Style - your way
Octahedra Replies: 31 Views: 38665	Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:45 am Subject: Creating a New Musical Style - your way Forum: Discussion » Composition
Octahedra Replies: 31 Views: 38665	With a mere twelve notes per octave available in the standard "European" musical scale we still have infinite possibilites. Just as no two snowflakes, two blades of grass or two grains of ...
Topic: Favorite Electronic Albums or Artists?
Octahedra Replies: 57 Views: 34886	Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:37 am Subject: Favorite Electronic Albums or Artists? Forum: Discussion » Schmooze
Octahedra Replies: 57 Views: 34886	Jarre's Holy Trinity for me: 1. Oxygene 2. Equinoxe 3. Les Chants Magnétiques Interesting. I had also come to think of these 3 as a set (because the sound of the later albums was so differen ...
Topic: Algorithmic composition - what does everyone think?
Octahedra Replies: 70 Views: 103099	Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:07 am Subject: Re: Algorithmic composition - what does everyone think? Forum: Discussion » Composition
Octahedra Replies: 70 Views: 103099	I had the same experience when I was playing with some algorithmic composition tools: you had to fiddle a lot with the parameters to get something out of it. Eventually I realized one of the key thing ...
Topic: New gear!
Octahedra Replies: 1831 Views: 923120	Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 2:55 pm Subject: New gear! Forum: Discussion » Schmooze
Octahedra Replies: 1831 Views: 923120	I just bought a DX27 with one missing key for £12! (about $18 ) Ah yes - I have a DX11 with about 20 missing LFOs! Er, no, wait, that seems to be the actual spec. Having only 2 LFOs t ...
Topic: Vitamin C Eases Dental Pain
Octahedra Replies: 27 Views: 9379	Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 2:45 pm Subject: Re: Vitamin C Eases Dental Pain Subject description: in my case it did Forum: Discussion » Schmooze
Octahedra Replies: 27 Views: 9379	This makes me wonder if there has been any testing of applying vitamin C to wounds for healing purposes. It should be noted that I was kind of experimenting as I often do, and I was also applying gel ...
Topic: Microtonal keyboard - circle of 5ths
Octahedra Replies: 4 Views: 12981	Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:23 am Subject: Re: Microtonal keyboard - circle of 5ths Forum: How-tos » Micro Tuning
Octahedra Replies: 4 Views: 12981	that's probably the first of a long list of epiphanies you'll get while working with microtones I hope so, although at the moment I'm just glad that I haven't got myself too badly stuck in a corner ...
Topic: Microtonal keyboard - circle of 5ths
Octahedra Replies: 4 Views: 12981	Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:45 pm Subject: Microtonal keyboard - circle of 5ths Forum: How-tos » Micro Tuning
Octahedra Replies: 4 Views: 12981	It's amazing where the circle of 5ths turns up... (yes this is going to get into some heavy-ish music theory!) The layout I used on my microtonal keyboard (31 notes per octave which I'll be using ...
Topic: Microtonal keyboard - finished at last
Octahedra Replies: 10 Views: 20022	Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:30 am Subject: Microtonal keyboard - finished at last Forum: How-tos » Micro Tuning
Octahedra Replies: 10 Views: 20022	Actually I was referring to the orientation of the dimensioning cuts relative to the concentric ring structure of the wood. From what I can see they are all ideal (maximally stable in terms of tangen ...
Topic: Microtonal keyboard - finished at last
Octahedra Replies: 10 Views: 20022	Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:18 am Subject: Microtonal keyboard - finished at last Forum: How-tos » Micro Tuning
Octahedra Replies: 10 Views: 20022	It would be nice to have a picture with your hands on the keyboard to figure out the key size. Here we go - this is me playing a C major chord with my left hand. Lots of fingers flying around and ...
Topic: Carlos Chavez - Toward a New Music
Octahedra Replies: 9 Views: 10478	Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:26 am Subject: Re: Carlos Chavez - Toward a New Music Forum: Discussion » Composition
Octahedra Replies: 9 Views: 10478	I find that a pejorative view And historically it is incorrect. Bach, Vivaldi, et al. certainly did not think it important nor expect that their music would always be performed on the same inst ...
Topic: Carlos Chavez - Toward a New Music
Octahedra Replies: 9 Views: 10478	Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:36 pm Subject: Re: Carlos Chavez - Toward a New Music Forum: Discussion » Composition
Octahedra Replies: 9 Views: 10478	he's speculating that electronic music is the truest way for a composer's vision to be realized without any interference, be it showboating, interpretation, any kind of variable on the part of the per ...
Topic: Microtonal keyboard - finished at last
Octahedra Replies: 10 Views: 20022	Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:03 pm Subject: Microtonal keyboard - finished at last Forum: How-tos » Micro Tuning
Octahedra Replies: 10 Views: 20022	The carefully radially sawn fir strips appear to be passive mechanical support elements. Is that correct? Exactly - I glued all the wooden components together into a single fixed structure. The s ...
Topic: Microtonal keyboard - finished at last
Octahedra Replies: 10 Views: 20022	Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 7:00 am Subject: Microtonal keyboard - finished at last Forum: How-tos » Micro Tuning
Octahedra Replies: 10 Views: 20022	Thanks Carlo - I'll be playing around with this keyboard for a while and I hope to get more confident about composing in 31et as a result! It would be nice to have a picture with your hands on the ...
Topic: Microtonal keyboard - finished at last
Octahedra Replies: 10 Views: 20022	Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:07 am Subject: Microtonal keyboard - finished at last Forum: How-tos » Micro Tuning
Octahedra Replies: 10 Views: 20022	Well I've finally got this microtonal keyboard built and working. It's designed for an equal temperament of 31 notes per octave. The white keys are the notes A-G (but not quite the same as the ...
Topic: New gear!
Octahedra Replies: 1831 Views: 923120	Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:55 am Subject: New gear! Forum: Discussion » Schmooze
Octahedra Replies: 1831 Views: 923120	He who has the most oscillators when he dies has won. Softsynths don't count, right? Gordon
Topic: Dream Synths
Octahedra Replies: 44 Views: 15661	Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:54 am Subject: Dream Synths Forum: Discussion » Schmooze
Octahedra Replies: 44 Views: 15661	My brain is the perfect synth. It's just that when I go to get the music out, it all goes horribly wrong I also find that the finished music never quite turns out as good as the original i ...
Topic: Looking for a New Mixer
Octahedra Replies: 9 Views: 5290	Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:33 am Subject: Re: Looking for a New Mixer Subject description: Have any advice on the Mixer Market? Forum: Instruments and Equipment » General Discussion
Octahedra Replies: 9 Views: 5290	i used to have a Behringer back in the day, while it was alright, it still had some hum or hiss to it. Just not as clear as i hoped for. This was in the 90's, so i'm wondering if maybe there were impr ...
Topic: The cadence in harmony and noise
Octahedra Replies: 6 Views: 10744	Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:50 am Subject: Re: The cadence in harmony and noise Forum: Discussion » Composition » Project Zylaphon
Octahedra Replies: 6 Views: 10744	A question for composers who do not find harmonic cadences relevant to their work: Do you every think of your work in terms of sections and stages? And if so, do you reflect on the nature of the &qu ...
Topic: Dream Synths
Octahedra Replies: 44 Views: 15661	Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 1:40 am Subject: Dream Synths Forum: Discussion » Schmooze
Octahedra Replies: 44 Views: 15661	Sounds like you want an I would love to hear some samples when you get it. As it turns out, the page for this synth that I posted above, does link to some audio samples here: http://www.arturi ...
Topic: Dream Synths
Octahedra Replies: 44 Views: 15661	Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 10:52 am Subject: Re: Dream Synths Subject description: schmooze about it Forum: Discussion » Schmooze
Octahedra Replies: 44 Views: 15661	What's your dream synth? First thing that occurs to me: I'd like a Poly Evolver with 16 voices/parts, independent full audio fx, and (this is the bit you can't do by patching multiple hardware tog ...
Topic: Whiskey
Octahedra Replies: 55 Views: 24049	Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:59 am Subject: Whiskey Forum: Discussion » Schmooze
Octahedra Replies: 55 Views: 24049	Now this is a Schmooze subject I could go on all day about! Balvenie Doublewood 12yr is an all round favourite. There is a Doublewood 15 I had once, but I've not seen it since the one, it was ...