mirskontsa: 2022

The Wilson Archives - https://www.anaphoria.com/wilson.html
Wilsonic App
(book) Terumi Narushima - Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson: Mapping the Harmonic Spectrum

Stephen James Taylor - http://www.stephenjamestaylor.com/sjt/microtonality.html
George Secor - https://www.anaphoria.com/secor.html
Praveen Venkataramana - https://www.anaphoria.com/venkataramana.html
Kite Giedraitis / Tall Kite

(book) Alternative Tunings: Theory, Notation and Practice, including the alt-tuner manual - https://www.tallkite.com/AlternativeTunings.html

Joe Monzo

Tonalsoft Encyclopedia - http://www.tonalsoft.com/default.aspx
http://www.tonalsoft.com/enc/m/monzo-writings.aspx
(book) JustMusic: A New Harmony

Heinz Bohlen - The Bohlen-Pierce Site - https://www.huygens-fokker.org/bpsite/
Elaine Walker - Bohlen-Pierce Scale - https://www.ziaspace.com/academic/bp/
Stephen Fox - http://www.sfoxclarinets.com/research.html
John Chowning - Stria - https://brahms.ircam.fr/fr/analyses/Stria/
Marek Žabka - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marek-Zabka-5
Stephen Weigel

Analysis - https://www.stephenweigelcomposerperformer.com/xenharmonic-analysis
Lectures - https://www.stephenweigelcomposerperformer.com/lectures

Shahin Mohajeri

Neil Haverstick - https://microstick.net/category/articles/
Ozan Yarman - http://www.ozanyarman.com/welcome.html
Prent Rodgers - http://ripnread.com/sample-page/blog/
Warren Burt - http://www.warrenburt.com/selected_articles/
Zhea Erose - Primodality - https://en.xen.wiki/w/Primodality
Flora Canou - https://en.xen.wiki/w/User:FloraC
Sergey A. Kryukov - https://en.xen.wiki/w/User:SAKryukov
Andrew Heathwaite

MOS Investigations - https://en.xen.wiki/w/Andrew_Heathwaite%27s_MOS_Investigations
Technical Notes - https://en.xen.wiki/w/Technical_Notes_for_Newbeams

Lillian Hearne - https://en.xen.wiki/w/User:Lhearne
Igliashon Jones - https://en.xen.wiki/w/Igliashon_Jones
Keenan Pepper - https://en.xen.wiki/w/Keenan_Pepper
Mario Pizarro - Piagui scale - https://en.xen.wiki/w/Mario_Pizarro
Eduardo Sábat-Garibaldi - https://en.xen.wiki/w/Eduardo_Sábat-Garibaldi
Petr Pařízek (comma pumps, somewhere in facebook groups)
Mike Battaglia

Douglas Blumeyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_set_theory
Sevish - https://sevish.com/category/tutorials/
Marc Sabat - https://www.marsbat.space/#writing
Thomas Nicholson - https://superparticular.com/words/
Amine Beyhom - http://foredofico.org/CERMAA/publications/publications-on-the-site/publications-amine-beyhom
Easley Blackwood

(book) The structure of recognizable diatonic tunings
Modes and chord progressions in equal tunings - https://www.jstor.org/stable/833437

John H. Chalmers

(book) Divisions of the Tetrachord

http://www.tonalsoft.com/sonic-arts/chalmers/chalmers.htm

Ben Johnston - (book) "Maximum Clarity" and Other Writings on Music
James Tenney

A History of 'Consonance' and 'Dissonance' - https://www.plainsound.org/pdfs/HCD.pdf
(book) From Scratch

Adriaan Fokker - (book) Just Intonation
Harry Partch - (book) Genesis of a Music
J. Murray Barbour - (book) Tuning and Temperament
W. A. Mathieu - (book) Tonal Harmony
R.H.M. Bosanquet

(book) An Elementary Treatise on Musical Intervals and Temperament - https://en.xen.wiki/images/a/a7/Bosanquet_-_An_elementary_treatise_on_musical_intervals.pdf
Temperament; Or the Division of the Octave

Lou Harrison - (book) Music Primer
Ivan Wyschnegradsky - (book) Manual of quartertone harmony
Hermann L. F. Helmholtz - (book) On the Sensations of Tone
Horațiu Rădulescu - Brain and Sound Resonance: The World of Self-Generative Functions as a Basis of the Spectral Language of Music
David B. Doty - http://www.dbdoty.com/WordsFirst.html
Arnold Dreyblatt - https://www.dreyblatt.net/general-information-music#/tuning-system/
Bill Alves - http://www.billalves.com/writing.html
Cris Forster - https://www.chrysalis-foundation.org/musical-mathematics-pages/
Larry Polansky - http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/%7Elarry/misc_writings/lpdocs.html
Luca Attanasio & Pierpaolo Beretta - Armodue theory - https://en.xen.wiki/w/Armodue
David Canright - https://sites.google.com/site/davidrcanright/music-articles
Robert Hasegawa - http://www.roberthasegawa.com
Xenharmonikôn

Daniel Thompson - http://danielthompson.blogspot.com
Barbara Hero - Lambdoma - https://lambdoma.com
Robert Walker - http://robertinventor.com/software/tunesmithy/composing.htm
Rich Holmes about xenharmonic music (somewhere on web.archive.org)
Johannes Kotschy - http://www.ekmelic-music.org/en/person.php?n=Ko
Julián Carrillo - The Thirteenth Sound - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonido_13
John Schneider - https://johnschneider.la/Writings.html
Charles Lucy - Lucy Tuning - http://www.lucytune.com
Alain Daniélou - Semantic System - https://www.semantic-danielou.com/semantic-danielou-53/user-manual-semantic-danielou-53/intervals-table-of-the-semantic-scale/
Johnny Reinhard - 8th Octave Overtone Tuning - https://en.xen.wiki/w/8th_Octave_Overtone_Tuning
Martin Gough - On the Bimodular Approximation and Equal Temperaments - https://en.xen.wiki/images/1/12/Bimod_Approx_2014-6-8.pdf

a bit more links:

Scala help - https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/help.htm
Scala references - https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/references.html
Tuning & temperament bibliography - https://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/bibliography.html
from Carl Lumma - http://lumma.org/links/
Jeffrey Harrington - http://www.parnasse.com/jh/blog/microtonal-index.html

Facebook groups:

The Xenharmonic Alliance - https://www.facebook.com/groups/476404232379884/
The Xenharmonic Alliance - Mathematical Theory - https://www.facebook.com/groups/xenharmonicmath/
XA - Monthly Tunings - https://www.facebook.com/groups/979055042181607/
Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory - https://www.facebook.com/groups/497105067092502/
Erv Wilson Discussion Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/ErvWilsonDiscussionGroup/
Intonation Juste - https://www.facebook.com/groups/312334115764962/
17-Tone Workgroup - https://www.facebook.com/groups/503990420199057/
22-Tone Workgroup - https://www.facebook.com/groups/370122423186931/
31-Tone Workgroup - https://www.facebook.com/groups/421996207912134/
UnTwelve - https://www.facebook.com/groups/untwelve/
Tuning to Timbre Study Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/520478431698941/
Small Equal Xenharmonic Temperaments - https://www.facebook.com/groups/839632962721372/
Quarterly Tunings Workshop - https://www.facebook.com/groups/228574041389870/

Friday, August 12, 2022

Да кто такой этот ваш спектрализм / what is this spectral-liminal music even, anyway

Could be helpful for creating algorithmic music, maybe.

[Mos] Murail: sculptor, who reveals forms concealed in spectrum, with:

active filtering
selection of tempered pitches
spectral areas
spectral exploration
1. to think of the continuum before thinking of the discrete.
2. to have a global approach and not a cellular or a sequential one.
3. to use logarithmic/expositional methods of organization instead of linear ones.
4. to build in a functional way.
5. to be concerned with the relation between conception and perception.

[Mos] Dufourt precepts:

1. The piece is conceived as a synthetic whole;
2. There is a basic congruence between the whole and its inner division;
3. The manner in which the piece is organized coincides with the manner in which it evolves through time;
4. Spectral music is founded on a theory of functional fields and on an aesthetics of unstable forms;
5. This music marks a progress towards immanence and transparence;
6. The renewal of the traditional instrumental practice, that of string and wind instruments.

[Mos] Dufourt about "Erewhon": "what counts in the percussion is not the impact, it is the resonance's dynamic spectrum."
[Mos] Grisey: Sound parameters determine the fluctuating and ambiguous character of the [sound] fields, as in the case of the work on the contrast 'luminosity/shade' of each sound or group of sounds. It is the distribution of the harmonics, the relative intensity of the partials, the combination sounds, and the different fluctuations, that give to each sound or group of sounds a specific aura, and by selecting one of the potential components and bringing it out, it will then become a new radiant object. Out of this sound we can again choose and update this or that component, and so forth.
[Duf] Dufourt:

Debussy - sonic substance
Varèse - global dynamism of sonority
Xenakis - idea of tree structures, graphic representation of hierarchies
Ligeti - ramification
Stockhausen - sonic continuum
appropriation of inharmonicity
differentiation of noise
Alteration/distortion of harmonic profiles of waves
Modulation
Threshold, is found between stabilization and conditions that forbid it
systems of transition, comings and goings, fluctuations between:

harmony and timbre
complex sounds and noise
pitch and noise
harmonicity and inharmonicity
timbre and saturation

spectral music - art based on the principle of functional interaction
music of adjoining categories, hybrid objects
its problematic - crossing thresholds of perception
its working hypothesis - interference or intermodulation
spectral music as cybernetics:

interaction between unstable elements
criteria, that determine location between reference points and thresholds
and a comparator, a device comparing voltages or streams of data - or a feedback circuit

[Fin]

Sources:

[Mos] Viviana Moscovich "French Spectral Music: An Introduction" (great article, btw)
[Duf] Hugues Dufourt "Spectral music and its pianistic expression"
[Fin] Joshua Fineberg "Guide the the Basic Concepts and Techniques of Spectral Music"
[Ros] François Rose "Introduction to the Pitch Organization of French Spectral Music"

Monday, August 8, 2022

(reposted in wordpress) How spectralism began, probably

(Some important disclaimers could be found at the end of this post)

Proto-spectralists: Charles Koechlin, Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, Béla Bartók, André Jolivet, Olivier Messiaen, Henry Cowell, Edgard Varèse, Giacinto Scelsi, Iannis Xenakis, György Ligeti, La Monte Young, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Henri Dutilleux - Métaboles (1963-1964)

Music theorists, aniticipating spectralism: Arnold Schoenberg (Klangfarbengmelodie), Harry Partch, Henry Cowell, Paul Hindemith

Computer musicians nearby: Max Mathews, John Pierce, James A. Moorer, John M. Grey

"Traditional"/"folk" approaches: Throat singing (Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan, ...), Bulgarian female folk singing

Timeline sample of composions:

1958 - Toshiro Mayuzumi (黛敏郎) - Nirvana-Symphony
1965 - (?)* Maryanne Amacher - AUDJOINS, a Suite For Audjoined Rooms
1965 - Corneliu Cezar - Aum
1965 - Octavian Nemescu - Combinaţii în cercuri
1967 - Octavian Nemescu - Illuminations for Orchestra
1968 - Mihai Mitrea Celarianu - Colinde
1968 - Per Nørgård - Voyage into the Golden Screen
1968 - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung
1969 - Octavian Nemescu - Concentrique
1969/1976 - Horațiu Rădulescu - Credo
1969 - Jean-Claude Risset - Mutations
1970 - Lucian Meţianu - Pythagoreis
1970 - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mantra
1971 - Ștefan Niculescu - Ison I
1972 - Horațiu Rădulescu - Capricorn's Nostalgic Crickets
1972 - James Tenney - Clang
1972 - James Tenney - QUINTEXT V
1973-1974 - Girard Grisey - Dérives
1973 - Jonathan Harvey - Inner Light I
1973-1977 - Aurel Stroe - Oresteia II
1974 - Costin Cazaban - Zig-Zag
1974-1985 - Girard Grisey - Les espaces acoustiques

1975 - Girard Grisey - Partiels

1974 - Michaël Lévinas - Appels
1974 - James Tenney - Spectral CANON For CONLON Nancarrow

1990 - rewritten and extended by Clarence Barlow**

1975 (text) - Horațiu Rădulescu - Sound Plasma: music of the future sign or my D high opus 19 ∞
1975 - Costin Cazaban - Naturalia I
1975/2002 - Peter Eötvös - Windsequenzen
1975 - Jonathan Harvey - Inner Light III
1975 - Costin Miereanu - Luna Cinese
1975 - Ștefan Niculescu - Ison II
1976 - Maryanne Amacher - Torse
1976-1987 - Horațiu Rădulescu - infinite to be cannot be infinite, infinite anti-be could be infinite
1976-1977 - Tristan Murail - Territoires de l’oubli
1977 - Corneliu Cezar - Rota
1977 - John Chowning - Stria
1977 - Iancu Dumitrescu - Movemur et Sumus III
1977 - Michaël Lévinas - Voix dans un vaisseau d’airain
1977 - Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire
1978 - Tristan Murail - Ethers
1978-1979 - Hugues Dufourt - Saturne
1979 - Michaël Lévinas - Ouverture pour une fête étrange
1980 - Maryanne Amacher - Living sound, for “Sound-joined Rooms” series
1980 - Costin Cazaban - Naturalia II
1980 - Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
1980 - Tristan Murail - Gondwana
1980 - Claude Vivier - Lonely Child
1981 - Călin Ioachimescu - Oratio II
1981 - Mesias Maiguashca - FMelodies
1981 - Horia Şurianu - Cantus rudis

more spectralism / hyper-spectralism / post-spectralism: Clarence Barlow**, Johannes Fritsch, Maryanne Amacher, Erhard Grosskopf, Fred Popovici, Anatol Vieru, Philippe Hurel, Eric Tanguy, François Paris, Philippe Leroux, Philippe Manoury, Thierry Blondeau, Lasse Thoresen, Marc-André Dalbavie, Jean-Luc Hervé, Joshua Fineberg, Julian Anderson, Éliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Glenn Branca, Ana-Maria Avram, Corneliu Dan Georgescu, Larry Polansky, John Luther Adams, Kaija Saariaho, Magnus Lindberg, Fausto Romitelli, Doina Rotaru, Hans Zender, Peter Ablinger, Georg Friedrich Haas, Helena Tulve, Bruno Mantovani, George Benjamin, Nigel Osborne, Richard Causton, Toby Twining, William Sethares, Donnacha Dennehy, Steve Lehman, Frédéric Maurin, Andrew Daniels, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Fabien Lévy, Ryan Beppel, Arash Yazdani, William Dougherty, Yair Klartag, mannfishh, Emily Hall, Turgut Erçetin

* no recording available on the Internet, though

** also known as Klarenz/Clarents Baalo/Baarlough/Baaleuw/Baalow/Baghlough/Balow

also check out: Saturationism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphaël_Cendo#Work) - Raphaël Cendo, Franck Bedrossian, Yann Robin, youtube memes

Sources:

Horia Surianu and Joshua Fineberg "Romanian spectral music or another expression freed"
Hugues Dufourt "Spectral music and its pianistic expression"
Julian Anderson "A provisional history of spectral music"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_singing
Robert A. Wannamaker "North American Spectralism: The Music of James Tenney"
Jeffrey Arlo Brown "The Death and Life of Spectral Music" - https://van-magazine.com/mag/spectral-music/
Iuliana Porcos "Spectralism. Spectral composition techniques"
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/y_z/romanian-composers-after-1960-spectralism-etc/
Saturationism and hyper-spectralism - https://www.talkclassical.com/threads/saturationism-and-hyper-spectralism.71391/page-2
Julian Anderson "Timbre, Process and accords fixes: Dutilleux and his Younger French Contemporaries"
Yuriko Hase Kojima "Meanings in Making Music: Has Composing Changed with Technology?"

Disclaimers:

The post is not about "who was first", there's no single first, it's a process, multitude, etc. I don't like the idea of "claiming the priority", I'm more for "discard studies" - https://discardstudies.com/2021/01/18/firsting-in-research/. And the post is more meant to be read as some kind of decolonial statement, and it was also useful for myself, to have some kind of visual early timeline of spectral/liminal music.
The list probably omits some of the compositions by authors, already represented in the list a couple of times
The endpoint is also kind of arbitrary, but it's somewhere around the Hugues Dufourt's "Musique spectrale" manifesto, and also around the untimely death of Claude Vivier.
There's a lot of biases visible in the list (e. g., no women among any of the geographical locations where spectralism was to be found(ed), France, Romania or America; the earliest I found are Maryanne Amacher's works).

Thursday, August 4, 2022

искусство 33 пост-тональных анализов

Попытаюсь закодить то, что мне понравилось. Саммари:

1 - не
2 - не
3 - звучит круто, octatonic scales
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Friday, July 8, 2022

Музыкальная форма

Какие операции есть для крупной формы? Допустим мы умеем [локально генерить]:

мелодии
гармонии
ритм
как-то локально собрать что-то музыкальное
проанализировать что-то локально

Какие операции-манипуляции можно закодить, что-то про coherence, стиль:

что-то про память
контраст
мутации

Как можно генерить крупную форму? Что-то типа поста "сложность и формообразование", morphogenesis, evo-devo, только в применении к музыке:

probability theory, stochastic music, information theoretic constructions, 1/f
nonlinear dynamical systems
L-systems, self-similar structures, recursive definitions, fractal music
emergent form (as a by-product of complex lower level activity)
artificial musical grammars

Whom and what to check out from time to time in mathematical music theory

Journals:

TODO

Researcher-Composers:

Dmitri Tymoczko - https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu

Clifton Callender - http://cliftoncallender.com

music - http://cliftoncallender.com/composition/

TODO

Fred Lerdahl - https://www.fredlerdahl.com (doesn't update)

Researchers:

Richard Cohn - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=mQ4iV-EAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Julian Hook - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=KAHKPEAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

David Temperley - http://davidtemperley.com

Thomas Fiore - http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~tmfiore/

Franck Jedrzejewski - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Xzu_-qkAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Thomas Noll - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas-Noll-3

David Clampitt - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Clampitt

TODO

Иерархические (и не очень) структуры в музыке

Тут уже был пост про L-системы. Но в литературе есть ещё всякие иерархические/древовидные/network-like/grid-like структуры:

Rhythmic Hierarchies

(gttm) Grouping Structure
(gttm) Metrical Structure

Pitch-event Hierarchies

(gttm) Time-span Segmentation
(gttm) Time-span Reduction

Tonal Hierarchy

(gttm) Stability Conditions
(gttm) Prolongation Reduction
Harmonic Function
(tps) Chordal-Regional Space
(tps) Tonal Attraction, Melodic Attraction
(tps) Hierarchical Distance Tension
Tonal Tension/Relaxation

Tonnetz
Surface/Sensory Dissonance
Slurs

Кодинг всякой музыкальной теории (и как из неё собирать музыку?)

- чиптюн

- тембры

- арпеджио

что я узнал полезного из статей и книжек и видосов, и что можно было бы закодить:

- Fred Lerdahl "Composition and Cognition"

- выписал структуры в отдельный пост

- ещё есть шкала order-disorder, сохранил как картинку, полезно

- TODO

- Nick Collins "Musical Form and Algorithmic Composition"

- выписал структуры в отдельный пост

- хороший поинт про моделирование слушателя (типа adversarial learning'а); я в этом смысле хотел бы закодить генератор, который умеет анализировать свой output, и как-то его корректировать потом

Пост-тональная нео-Риманова трансформационная музыкальная теория множеств

Возвращаясь к первому посту про сети Клюмпенхауэра : )

До меня тут дошло, что можно попробовать закодить теорию музыки для начала без учёта тональностей, но всё же с какими-то операциями над нотами, интервалами и т. д.

Сначала перечислю источники информации:

Alexandre Popoff blog - https://alpof.wordpress.com
Jay Beard Music - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC078EwoJJlUtDYS2Zf_PuzA

Попробую собрать тут рабочие примеры операций:

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Chromatic/Atonal/post-tonal music theory

Mostly ignoring: 12-tone/dodecaphonic theories/practices, serialism, noise/musique concrète, new complexity, minimalism, etc.

scales and modes

...
bebop scale/Barry Harris scale
...

composers

Debussy, Scriabin, Bartók, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, ...
Chopin, Liszt, ...
jazz...

Avoiding tritone in melody with chromaticism
Modulation
Pitch centricity
Secondary dominants
Neapolitan chord
Augmented sixth chords
Chromatic mediants
Tritone substitution
Reharmonization
Dissonant counterpoint
(Bartók/Lendvai) Axis theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotonality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromaticism
Extended/altered chords

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_chord

Quartal/quintal harmony

+ sound consistency when planing bass diatonically

Planing
...

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Программирую микротональное барокко

Из чего состоит музыка (теория музыки) барокко/Баха, список понятий:

fugue / counterpoint
stretto fuga
subject, countersubject
scales: minor, major
invention
cadence
sequence

romanesca

diminution
suspensions: 6-5, ...
partimento
rule of the octave
I -V - I - V - ...
chromaticism: ...
transformations: inversion, retrograde