Tim Parkinson and Adam Morris perform Jonathan Marmor's "Jonathan Marmor" at Music We'd Like To Hear, 2014-07-04, London.
More info: http://jonathanmarmor.com/post/90712283499/jonathanmarmor

"Jonathan Marmor"

List of Songs

The only known recording of me playing tabla solo.

It's a tape recording from a recital I gave at the end of my 3rd year at CalArts, in the Gamelan Room. I'm accompanied by John Bergamo's drum machine playing a standard tabla solo accompaniment melody that keeps time for the soloist, called a lehara or nagma. I take it at a really conservative tempo, and even so I'm playing quite loose, which is, I guess, a good thing, except for the obvious mistakes.

Somewhere there is a photo of me sitting on the floor of my Grandma Fay's living room demonstrating tabla to my baby nephew Zac, surrounded by family, with a wall covered in family photos behind me. I'm wearing a button up shirt and tie, and I have dyed fluorescent yellow hair -- which I dyed to match the walls of the apartment I was living in. On the photo print I wrote in Wite-Out "May 9" to advertise this concert. Wish I could find that funny photo.

Tabla Solo in Tintal, May 9, 2000

The Harmonic Series Of Transpositions Of A Twelve Tone Row Going Out Of Phase With Each Other

Jazz

September 2003. Tune by Jonathan, written on Mike Fink's piano while house sitting. Guitar played by Jeff Eliassen. Bass played by Jonathan.

Raven Fenbahn

Saint James Hospital Phase

CPE Bach Phase Part 3

CPE Bach Phase Part 4

CPE Bach Phase Part 5

CPE Bach Phase Part 6

CPE Bach Phase Part 7

CPE Bach Phase Part 8

Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe

With Half Note Pulse and Microbeats

With Half Note Pulse

Multiple Random Tempos on the Harmonic Series with Random Muting

A demonstration of a just intonation tuning system created by Erv Wilson.

Yesterday I started playing around with the Python audio digital signal processing library pyo (http://code.google.com/p/pyo/).  This morning my friend Kraig Grady posted on Facebook a link (http://wilsonarchives.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/the-harmonic-and-subharmonic-ogdoads.html) to his blog post about one of many tuning systems sketched by his late friend and mentor Erv Wilson.  I wanted to hear what that tuning system sounded like, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to try out pyo.

The music is very simple.  It is a sequence of four-pitch chords, played by a simple saw tooth synth.  The first chord consists of four pitches randomly chosen from the scale in a two octave range.  Each subsequent chord is a repetition of the preceding chord with one pitch replaced with a randomly chosen new pitch.  The new pitch is always within an equal tempered major third above or below the removed pitch, was not in the preceding chord, and is not unison with another note in the new chord.  Of course the new pitches are always also in the same scale, and within a five octave range.

I didn't mess with the envelope of the sound, or the balance between the voices.  I'll leave that for another day to learn more about pyo.

There is almost certainly a better way to deal with rhythm than using time.sleep all the time.  It was not immediately obvious from the docs how to do this with pyo, so I just winged it.

The code is here: https://github.com/jonathanmarmor/erv.

Erv Wilson Tuning: Harmonic and Subharmonic Ogdoads with 12 Tones

This was originally part of the pre-recorded backing track of a solo performance I did at Mister T's Bowl in Highland Park, CA long ago.  If I remember correctly, I was singing, playing guitar, playing flugelhorn, and recording and playing back numerous minidisc players and tape recorders on top of this and other recordings.  I'm pretty sure I made this using Finale in the computer lab in the CalArts library.

Midi Slap Bass, Oboe, Celeste, Harpsichord

"Fantastic Discharge" is a collection of several items from Jonathan Marmor's sketchbook dating from about 1999 to about 2002. It was originally released as a CD-R by Ballbearings Pinatas Records (http://www.ballbearingspinatas.com/) of Ariel Pink, Spencer Owen, Jeff Eliassen fame.

Jeff Eliassen, Nigel Lundemo, and Evan Collins Conway play trumpet, guitar, electric bass, and minidisc recording and playback on Recital A and B.

Birthdays, Weddings, Thank You

Vote for the Cops

Current

Performed at The Stone, New York City November 15th, 2009 by:

Katie Porter - Clarinet
Quentin Tolimieri - Synthesizer
Phil Rodriguez - Synthesizer, Trumpet
Kevin Farrell - Synthesizer
Nathan Herrera - Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone
Ryan Maxwell - Electric Guitar

It was June Maxwell's first birthday that day.

Stone 07

2008-08-09
ListenSpace, Brooklyn, NY
Johnny Chang - Violin
Joseph Drew - Trumpet
Quentin Tolimieri - Fender Rhodes
Devin Maxwell - Electric Vibraphone
James Moore - Electric Guitar
Travis Just - Synthesizer (long, sustained tones)
Many of the notes in the violin part are notated as a minor second or major second dyad and the violinist is instructed to play a note anywhere between the written notes. That's why it sounds that way.


Cattle in the Woods

Composer, tabla player, engineering manager at Spotify.

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