Microtonal Music by Samuel Pellman |
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Selected Nebulae |
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M45 | for digital sounds in 4-TET M6th temperament
Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (2.8 MB) Click here to go to vimeo.com to see the video by Miranda Raimondi! |
NGC 2080 | for digital sounds in just intonation Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (3.5 MB) Click here to go to vimeo.com to see a video by Miranda Raimondi! |
NGC 2818 | for digital sounds in just intonation
Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (2.7 MB) Click here to go to vimeo.com to see a video by Miranda Raimondi! |
3C461 | for digital sounds in just intonation
Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (3.6 MB) |
M17 | for digital sounds in just intonation
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NGC 1999 | for digital sounds in just intonation
Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (2.6 MB) Click here to go to vimeo.com to see the video by Miranda Raimondi! |
NGC 6357 | for digital sounds in just intonation
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Selected Planets |
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Messenger | for digital sounds The pitches of the principal sounds in the texture are tuned in a 5-limit
just intonation based on the harmonic series of a Thunder Tube. Click here to go to YouTube to see the video by Lauren Koss! |
Perelandra | for digital sounds This piece employs a large amount of pitch bending and pitch motives
based on a scale comprised of nine equal divisions of a just major third.
Click here to go to vimeo.com to see the video by Lauren Koss! |
Vaporis Congeries Magnae | for digital sounds This Csound piece is tuned in a 7-limit just intonation. Click here to go to YouTube to see the video by Lauren Koss! |
Neptune Flyby | for digital sounds This piece is for the most part constructed of pitches in 12-TET. However,
there are occasional microtonal embellishments, as heard in this 68
second audio clip: mp3
file (1 MB) Click here to go to vimeo.com to see the video by Lauren Koss! |
Dancing in the Dark | for digital sounds The pitches for this piece are those found in a scale based on twenty
equal divisions of a perfect fifth, with middle-C as the tonic. Each
of these divisions is slightly larger than an interval of 35 cents,
and the result is very similar to Wendy Carlos's gamma tuning. A special
property of this scale is that it can be used to form very pure major
and minor thirds, and so the tertian harmonies used in this piece are
therefore quite clear and beautiful. Click here to go to YouTube to see the video by Lauren Koss! |
other microtonal music: |
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"Lament for renown and grace" from the Suite from "MacBeth" |
for digital sounds in two channels The pitches for this piece are those found in a scale based on nineteen equal divisions of octave (i.e., 19-TET). A special property of this scale is that it can be used to form very pure minor thirds and major sixths. As this movement illustrates, it also provides more than the usual complement of chromatic embellishing pitches. Click to hear a 10 second audio clip: mp3 File (189K) |
"Midnight Madness" from the |
for digital sounds in two channels This movement is certainly xenharmonic! Its most salient feature is
an apparently endlessly descending set of glissandi (an example of an
aural illusion known as Shepard tones). |
Foonly Tunes | for digital sounds in two channels Click to hear a 23 second audio clip: mp3 File, 384K or a 17 second audio clip: mp3 File, 288K |
To obtain performance materials or for further information, please feel free to contact me! |