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Concert 3 at the Goethe Institute Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston, March 9, 2010 Beyond the Horizon - Georg Hajdu 2 BP clarinets and synthesizer in Bohlen-Pierce Scale Nora-Louise M?ller & ?kos Hoffman, BP clarinets When the Ravens Descend - Owen Bloomfield soprano voice, soprano & tenor BP clarinets Marion Samuel-Stevens, soprano Tilly Kooyman, soprano BP clarinet Stephen Fox, tenor BP clarinet (BP clarinet builder) Pas de Deux - Sascha Lemke Bohlen-Pierce clarinet, B-flat clarinet and ...
Concert 2 at Berklee College of Music Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston, March 8, 2010 All composers are performing on their own home-made Bohlen-Pierce Scale instruments. Folk Tune Improvisation by Arturo Grolimund Bohlen-Pierce Pan Flute Free-Improvisation by Ron Sword Ron Sword, 9-string Bohlen-Pierce Guitar Paul Erlich, BP Synthesizer Stretched-Chromatic Etude by Ron Sword 13-tone Bohlen-Pierce Classical Guitar (Ron builds micro/macrotonal guitars for a living) Love Song by Elaine Walk...
I composed "Love Song" in 2007 in the Bohlen-Pierce Scale. I built these two keyboards especially for this performance at the Bohlen-Pierce Symposium, March 8, 2010. The keyboard I'm playing is a rearranged Roland A-30, and Dan is playing a Korg Poly800 with keys that I specially ordered, sawed, sanded and rearranged. I'll post videos on the making of these keyboards at some point. The hexagon keyboard (Called a "sonome") is the same one that is in my video series on rearranging the keys for t...
"Stick Men" by Elaine Walker of ZIA was composed in 1991, directly inspired by "Solemn Song for Evening" movement 2 composed by Dr Richard Boulanger, which he played for the composition class in the Music Synthesis Department at Berklee College of music during Elaine's undergrad, in 1990. Elaine on her BP-tar (Bohlen-pierce scale tuned vertical keyboard), Dr Boulanger on the BP-sonome, Dan Sedgewick on BP-piano, Marji Gere on a BP-tuned violin. This was performed in the Music Synthesis perform...
These keyboards were available for participants to try out during the reception after Concert 3 of the Bohlen-Pierce Symposium, Boston, 2010, at the Goethe Institute. The top keyboard is a Korg Poly-800 rearranged for Lambda mode, the bottom keyboard (called a BP-tar) is rearranged for Dur II mode. It isn't clear yet which is a better key layout, but Elaine is leaning towards Dur II. In Dur II, "C" is between the two closer black notes - easier to find than C in Lamba mode, where the black key...
I gave this lecture on day 3 of the Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston, March 9, 2010, at the Goethe Institute. Most lectures were about the mathematics and ratios of the BP Scale, so I wanted to give more listening examples, tools that people can use like the TRIADALIZER and actual chord progression charts that I have available online, and show my homemade Bohlen-Pierce Keyboards, which I'm willing to make for whomever wants them. - - - Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston 2010 There has ...
I gave this lecture on day 3 of the Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston, March 9, 2010, at the Goethe Institute. Most lectures were about the mathematics and ratios of the BP Scale, so I wanted to give more listening examples, tools that people can use like the TRIADALIZER and actual chord progression charts that I have available online, and show my homemade Bohlen-Pierce Keyboards, which I'm willing to make for whomever wants them. - - - Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston 2010 There has ...
I gave this lecture on day 3 of the Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston, March 9, 2010, at the Goethe Institute. Most lectures were about the mathematics and ratios of the BP Scale, so I wanted to give more listening examples, tools that people can use like the TRIADALIZER and actual chord progression charts that I have available online, and show my homemade Bohlen-Pierce Keyboards, which I'm willing to make for whomever wants them. - - - Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston 2010 There has ...
"Solemn Song for Evening" was written by Dr. Richard Boulanger in 1987 and performed here during his presentation at the Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium in Boston, 2010. The piece was composed in the Bohlen-Pierce Scale and was not only the first vocal piece in the BP scale, but the first BP music I was exposed to when he played and sang it during electronic music composition class at Berklee College of Music, during my undergrad. It opened my ears to a new world of tonality, and sent me on my l...
I gave this lecture on day 3 of the Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston, March 9, 2010, at the Goethe Institute. Most lectures were about the mathematics and ratios of the BP Scale, so I wanted to give more listening examples, tools that people can use like the TRIADALIZER and actual chord progression charts that I have available online, and show my homemade Bohlen-Pierce Keyboards, which I'm willing to make for whomever wants them. - - - Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston 2010 There has ...