Blitz (2018)
Ricercare for 31EDO organ

Seven years after my first and only other exploration of microtonality to date (De Toonstudie), this work was composed to demonstrate a Max patch I had developed for a course in computer music. Using Max, a graphical programming language for music and multimedia art, I created a digital synthesizer that allowed performers to play subsets of notes from an octave divided into thirty-one equal parts (31EDO) – but by using a traditional piano keyboard, which has only twelve notes per octave. Through a set of virtual switches, the player could shift exactly which pitch each key would play, making all thirty-one steps in the octave accessible, much like how a harpist uses pedals to select which seven pitches of the usual twelve-note octave the instrument will sound. This whole project was inspired by the Fokker organ, a 31EDO instrument developed in 1951 by the Dutch composer, theoretician, and physicist, Adriaan Fokker. The version presented here replaces the pure synthesized tones of the Max version (coined the “Lil Fokker”) with organ samples, to best approximate the timbres of the original Fokker organ.

The subtitle “ricercare,” an Italian label for often-contrapuntal works of the early Baroque, refers to my process of “searching out” new harmonic perspectives within this novel (to me) tuning system. Based on a subset of pitches that includes best approximations of lower harmonics (7-limit) of three adjacent 31EDO fundamentals (approximately A-flat, A, and A-sharp), this piece moves quickly between musical styles, traversing “absolute” experiments with temperament – echoing spectralism, but also common-practice counterpoint  – and familiar yet contorted sounds, evoking Indonesian gamelan, blue notes of American jazz, and warped quotations from another of my electronic works.     

Version Notes:
This playback demo was created using MuseScore 4 and the MS Basic library, using different samples and EQs to roughly approximate the stops of the original Fokker organ.

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