Daily Pep-TAK 4/4/2020: mesmerizing just intonation chamber music.

1. Ellen Arkbro - Chords for Guitar
2. Harry Partch - The Rose (Partch Ensemble)
3. J.S. Bach - Ciaccona in Just Intonation (Joshua Modney)
4. Catherine Lamb - Frame (Christine Tavolacci)
5. Charles Curtis - Unfinished Song
6. Pauline Oliveros - Deep Listening Ione (Oliveros, Dempster, and Panaiotis)
7. Nicola Vicentino - Madonna il poco dolce (Johannes Keller)
8. Marc Sabat - Plainsound Duet (Jennifer Ames Alexander and Colin Alexander)
9. Yoshi Wada and Tashi Wada - Reed Modulations
10. Michael Harrison - Mureed (Del Sol Quartet)
11. Bill Daugherty - Eidos (Ekmeles with Yarn and Wire)
12. Chris Otto - Violin Octet
13. Monteverdi - Adoramus te, Christe (Exaudi)

mesmerizing just intonation chamber music - Daily Pep TAK Playlist

composed and performed by Christopher Otto
engineered, edited, mixed and mastered by Christopher Botta

Violin Octet

A live recording of EXAUDI singing Monteverdi's sacred madrigal, or motet: Adoramus te, Christe

Monteverdi - Adoramus te, Christe

Frame -  Catherine Lamb

Organ performance of the two enharmonic example pieces by Nicola Vicentino, published in his treatise "L'antica musica ridotta alla prattica moderna", Rome 1555. Performed on the Studio31 Arciorgano by Johannes Keller.

"Madonna il poco dolce"

Recorded in 2010 and released as part of Attention Patterns, compiled by Che Chen (Black Pollen Press/Important Records, 2010)

Bagpipe, audio generators – Yoshi Wada
Reed organ, harmonium – Tashi Wada

Photo by Marilyn Bogerd

www.blackpollenpress.com/

Yoshi Wada & Tashi Wada – Reed Modulations

"Plainsound Duet was written in 2018. A companion piece to my earlier duo Gioseffo Zarlino, it similarly explores two possible melodic modes which divide the major third into wholetones, one larger (9/8) and one smaller (10/9). In this case, the counterpoint invites the middle note to continually change its tuning by a syntonic comma, sometimes higher, sometimes lower, by following a path suggested by simple consonances."

http://www.marcsabat.com

"Plainsound Duet" was premiered by Jennifer Ames Alexander and Colin Alexander at 840: New Music for Viola and Cello on the 7 July 2018 at St James' Islington.

Marc Sabat - Plainsound Duet

Excerpt of Josh Modney's reinterpretation of J.S. Bach's "Ciaccona" in Just Intonation, as performed by Modney on "Engage" (New Focus Recordings)

http://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/josh-modney-engage/

J.S. Bach: Ciaccona (1720) with Just Intonation (excerpt)

The 10-string Hawaiian–type Adapted Guitar II and the Diamond Marimba accompany the text that came from Partch’s rejected triptych "December, 1942" for voice and re-fretted Adapted Guitar I. The mood is considerably darkened in this new settings by the haunting gliding tones of the slide guitar whose open strings are tuned to a minor Utonality and harmonized by the murmuring marimba. The falling petal from “The Rose” by Irish Bay Area poet Ella Young inspires the intoned vocal melody that also slowly descends in microtonal increments, a musical gesture that is cleverly recapitulated by the downward marimba arpeggios at the piece’s close.

4 The Rose

Ellen Arkbro - CHORDS(SUB029)
VINYL pre-order: https://ellenarkbro.bandcamp.com/album/chords

With ‘CHORDS’, the Stockholm-based musician and composer Ellen Arkbro returns to Subtext, following her acclaimed debut album ‘For Organ and Brass’.

This new longplayer sees Arkbro adopt a more minimalist approach, focusing on the immediate qualities of sound and elegantly expanding the tonal capacities of acoustic instruments using precise, subtle synthesis.

Composed of a carefully selected combination of tones, ‘CHORDS’ stretches, extends and obscures the timbral character of the instruments it is performed on.

Across both tracks, Arkbro examines the sonic materiality and harmonic quality of chords. She considers how the compositions occupy space rather than time – transposing theoretical possibilities into the phenomenal realm.

As a part of Arkbro’s systematic investigation of harmonic sound, ‘CHORDS’ proffers a divergence from conventional ways of listening. This work allows for a form of listening which goes beyond the mere reception of outer stimuli in letting the listener experience their role as active, and as embodying the sound itself. Space rather than time becomes the primary locus of listening as subtle movement of head and body reveals the inner complexities of ‘CHORDS’.

@ellenarkbro

CHORDS

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Ellen Arkbro - CHORDS For Guitar

Charles Curtis: Performances & Recordings 1998-2018 (SLT-005)

Saltern presents its fifth release, Charles Curtis: Performances & Recordings 1998-2018, the first comprehensive collection of recordings surveying the career of renowned, American cellist Charles Curtis. Selected by Curtis and Tashi Wada from recordings spanning the past two decades, the collection offers a broad, inclusive view of Curtis's activities across the diverse worlds of music he inhabits, containing rare, unreleased recordings, and never-before-released music by Terry Jennings, Richard Maxfield, Éliane Radigue, Alison Knowles, and Curtis. The wide-ranging scope of this release speaks not to a musical restlessness, but to a genuine spirit of inquiry, as these areas of activity for Curtis have existed concurrently in dialogue, not simply in succession, for decades. Over two hours of music by composers and artists with whom Curtis is closely associated including Éliane Radigue, Guillaume de Machaut, Tobias Hume, Silvestro di Ganassi, Terry Jennings, Morton Feldman, Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, Alison Knowles, Richard Maxfield, and Curtis himself. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu with liner notes by La Monte Young, Spencer Gerhardt, and Tashi Wada. Custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry.

Performances & Recordings 1998-2018

Charles Curtis – Unfinished Song (1998)

Mureed composed by Michael Harrison
Performed by Del Sol String Quartet

From Harrison's upcoming album: Seven Leading Names
Recorded and produced by Adam Abeshouse
Photo by Lenny Gonzalez

Michael Harrison: https://www.michaelharrison.com/
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Mureed signifies the birth of desire, the motivation needed to direct the will, “I desire for something.” – From the album notes and Nature's Hidden Dimension by W.H.S. Gebel

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