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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:17 am Post subject:
same old octonian or just same old same old or... Subject description: Same old shit or just octonian
This is a fragment of a midi dump, virtually no expression etc. The few notes that should be pizz are arco. This is my first attempt at making substantial use of the octonian scale and I keep getting the feeling that I've heard it all before. The other movements are already forming in my mind and I'm going to complete it in any case for sanities sake. But I'm curious if others have the same reaction.
This is written for string quartet. The final work will be "electro" only in the sense that it was written in Sibelius and out of a felt neurological need to externalize internal states (I refer you to Howard's comments at EM 2007).
Thanks for your reactions of any sort.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:39 am Post subject:
Re: same old octonian or just same old same old or... Subject description: Same old shit or just octonian
bachus wrote:
octonian scale
this is wonderful. excellent do you mean octophonic scale _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:48 am Post subject:
Re: same old octonian or just same old same old or... Subject description: Same old shit or just octonian
seraph wrote:
bachus wrote:
octonian scale
this is wonderful. excellent do you mean octophonic scale
Uh yea senility set in.
And thanks for the generous comments. Ive never had the sense of having heard it all before while writing and it's a little unnerving. _________________ The question is not whether they can talk or reason, but whether they can suffer. -- Jeremy Bentham
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject:
kkissinger wrote:
Another fantastic musical passage from Bachus!
Brings to mind the Bartok String quartets.
Ah! Of course! At least it didn't turn out to a rehashig of Korngold
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:13 am Post subject:
Re: same old octonian or just same old same old or... Subject description: Same old shit or just octonian
bachus wrote:
seraph wrote:
bachus wrote:
octonian scale
this is wonderful. excellent do you mean octophonic scale
Uh yea senility set in.
And thanks for the generous comments. Ive never had the sense of having heard it all before while writing and it's a little unnerving.
In my utter ignorance I had to find the definition of an octophonic scale. The term octophonic seems to be almost exclusively used for 8 channel sound systems, whereas a search for octatonic seem to assert that this is the widely accepted term for the scale, which makes sense. I did, however, find a few uses of the term octaphonic and octonic for the scale, among several thousand uses of octatonic. Octonion, on the other hand is a hypercomplex number. Not very important , I know...
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:03 am Post subject:
Re: same old octonian or just same old same old or... Subject description: Same old shit or just octonian
DrJustice wrote:
In my utter ignorance I had to find the definition of an octophonic scale.
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:07 am Post subject:
Re: same old octonian or just same old same old or... Subject description: Same old shit or just octonian
DrJustice wrote:
In my utter ignorance I had to find the definition of an octophonic scale. The term octophonic seems to be almost exclusively used for 8 channel sound systems, whereas a search for octatonic seem to assert that this is the widely accepted term for the scale, which makes sense. I did, however, find a few uses of the term octaphonic and octonic for the scale, among several thousand uses of octatonic.
Octaphonic as a term for a scale just doesn't make sense. But the same holds for other things in music, like black keys on a keyboard, using a score instead of a tape recorder or using "octave" for a step of 12 semi tones; it's just plain nuts. Not that there is anything wrong with being nuts, but it does make things a bit confusing to me every now and then.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject:
It's Western music Jim, but not as we know it...
I'm left wanting to hear the whole piece now.
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Really nice and inspiring to hear your work, I read some things about the use of these scales in messiaen's writings on serial composition. It's great to actually listen to these scales instead of just reading about all the possibilities! _________________ http://husc-sound.com
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do you mean octophonic scale 
senility set in.
