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Old 17th April 2013, 01:23 PM   #99
calebprime
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I always thought the old TV ad was funny where the guy says "The doctor says caffeine makes me nervous!" or something, asking her to pour him only half a cup.

https://www.box.com/s/6anfk84q5x37nkzdxr9w

So I titled this piece "My Doctor Says Caffeine".

It's in some strange mood between laughter, despair, and caffeine jitters. About 4 1/2 minutes.

Technically, it's a combination of improv and composition, with self-similar stuff, in a tuning which is a 171EDO quantization of 13-limit JI.

For Logic sequencer.

Neither my best nor my wurst. It's one of the first longer microtonal pieces that uses self-similar motives that I've been able to finish, so it's a step forward in that respect.

I intend to work again with many of the same elements, create a few more pieces along these lines before trying something different.

These numbers are a complete description of the scale I use, if you assume a 2:1 "octave": 13, 3, 5, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 5, 5, 3, 4, 9, 6, 2, 5, 7, 1, 2, 6, 9, 4, 3, 5, 5, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 5, 16

The same numbers, but absolute: 0, 13, 16, 21, 24, 26, 29, 33, 38, 42, 45, 50, 55, 58, 62, 71, 77, 79, 84, 91, 92, 94, 100, 109, 113, 116, 121, 126, 129, 133, 138, 142, 145, 147, 150, 155, 171

Last edited by calebprime; 17th April 2013 at 01:28 PM.
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