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Qualia

Qualia (pron.: /ˈkwɑːliə/ or /ˈkweɪliə/; singular form: quale (Latin pronunciation: [ˈkwaːle]) is a term used in philosophy to refer to individual instances of subjective, conscious experience. The term derives from a Latin word meaning for "what sort" or "what kind." Examples of qualia are the pain of a headache, the taste of wine, or the perceived redness of an evening sky.

"an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us." -Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett identifies four properties that are commonly ascribed to qualia. According to these, qualia are:

1 - ineffable; that is, they cannot be communicated, or apprehended by any other means than direct experience.
2 - intrinsic; that is, they are non-relational properties, which do not change depending on the experience's relation to other things.
3 - private; that is, all interpersonal comparisons of qualia are systematically impossible.
4 - directly or immediately apprehensible in consciousness; that is, to experience a quale is to know one experiences a quale, and to know all there is to know about that quale.

4 March 2013 - Rasht, Iran

Qualia: Quale I

Bagatelle For Clarinet and Double Bass

Solo For Electric Guitar

The Premiere performance of Qualia - Quale III written for Bang on a Can Summer festival 2014 at MASS MoCA
Conducted by Brad Lubman

Flutes: Lina Andonovska and Melanie Walters
Clarinets: Chuck Furlong and Boja Kragulj
Percussion: Gavin Ryan, Mark Utley and Matthew Evans
Piano: Jacob Abela
Guitar: Jiyeon Kim
Violins: Molly Germer and Alexandra Matloff
Viola: Karoline Hegge
Cello: Zan Berry

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Qualia

Qualia (pron.: /ˈkwɑːliə/ or /ˈkweɪliə/; singular form: quale (Latin pronunciation: [ˈkwaːle]) is a term used in philosophy to refer to individual instances of subjective, conscious experience. The term derives from a Latin word meaning for "what sort" or "what kind." Examples of qualia are the pain of a headache, the taste of wine, or the perceived redness of an evening sky.

"an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us." -Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett identifies four properties that are commonly ascribed to qualia. According to these, qualia are:

1 - ineffable; that is, they cannot be communicated, or apprehended by any other means than direct experience.
2 - intrinsic; that is, they are non-relational properties, which do not change depending on the experience's relation to other things.
3 - private; that is, all interpersonal comparisons of qualia are systematically impossible.
4 - directly or immediately apprehensible in consciousness; that is, to experience a quale is to know one experiences a quale, and to know all there is to know about that quale.

06 Jun 2014 - San Francisco, CA

Qualia: Quale III (Premiere)

The Dying Of The Light(Trio For Violin, Percussion And Piano)

Written for
Sarah Goldfeather
Gavin Ryan
Jani Parsons
. . .
and dedicated to Lisa Oppenheim

The Dying Of The Light

The Stoop for solo Synthesized Piano in Just Intonation
Performed by Paul Kerekes
30 July 2014

The Stoop for solo Synthesized Piano in Just Intonation

Qualia: Quale II

Demo!
(Raw)

DAE: Discordia, Armonía, Éxtasis

DAE: Discordia, Armonía, Éxtasis

The second demo piece from the album.
(Raw)

The Serpent Queen
La Reina Serpiente

The Serpent Queen - La Reina Serpiente

It's been a couple of weeks since I tried this new experiment of tuning Classical and Romantic pieces to other microtonal Just-Intonation tunings, This is my first successful one, "Musical Moment No.3 Op.94" By Franz Shubert, The tuning is the one Harry Partch used to tune his Harmonic Canon in "Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales", It's based on Archytas' Enharmonic genus.

Schubert Musical Moment No. 3 (Archytas' Enharmonic Tuning)

Just a couple of improvisations in Just-Intonation (For Solo Piano), a little experiment on improv-composition.
Not too good, but I like them so I decided to upload them :)
(BTW I can't stress this enough, these are just etudes, don't take them too seriously)

For La Monte Young
For Harry Partch

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