Tracks from several different <a href="http://paragate.bandcamp.com/">Paragaté</a> albums.

Paragaté (collaborations by Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty)

These pieces are made with samples from the Libravox recording Public Domain Hymns Part 1: https://librivox.org/public-domain-hymns-01-by-various/


Three Hymns

A trumpeter practicing nearby

For Marco Lucchi's M/Orpheus music project.

Footnote To Blake

Stimby - Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty

Deco - Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty

Samples from Public Domain Hymns 1, Section 1, Subsections 7, 8, and 9. Sung/read by Ezwa, MaryAnn, and Colman Shew.

https://librivox.org/public-domain-hymns-01-by-various/

Mindful of the love

Sample from Public Domain Hymns 1, Section 1, Subsection 7, sung by Ezwa. https://librivox.org/public-domain-hymns-01-by-various/

And can it be that I should gain

Samples from Public Domain Hymns 1, Section 1, Subsections 2, 4, 6, and 8. Read by Gargoyle, Chris Caron, Mary Ann, and debolee.

librivox.org/public-domain-hymns-01-by-various/


Arise my soul

The hymn (tune named "Durham", tune by Thomas Ravenscroft, harmonized by Samuel S. Wesley - rendered twice with the same MIDI instrument, same rhythms, once in 12-edo (equal temperament) and once in 31-edo.

Comparison of a hymn in 31-edo and 12-edo

A curiosity.

A few years ago I wrote code to enumerate all the artificial scales in 12-edo that conformed to two rules:

- It has 5, 6, 7, or 8 steps
- The distance between steps is a minor or major 2nd or 3rd, but no larger interval

When you compute all the scales by starting pitch and unique interval pattern, there are more than 14,000 of them, but when you consider them by pitch class content, this collapses into 2,235 unique scales that conform to these rules.

This code was used to generate a MIDI file containing all the scales, played in the three octaves g2-g5.

This is audio of the first couple of hundred.

Artificial scales

Letter home

Tune by Thomas Ravenscroft, 17th century.

Durham (hymn, tune by Ravenscroft)

1.7.18 Untitled (from a work in progress)

Fireworks a little less than a mile away, natural reverb.

Fireworks, crickets - natural reverb

My contribution to a title and project by Elizabeth Veldon, based on a NASA picture of Earth as the brightest star in the evening sky, taken from Mars.

Contributions by many other artists can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/240815330012325/

Our parents told us to always remember home, the evening star

From the Paragaté album <a href="http://paragate.bandcamp.com/album/spaceflight-pharmacology">Spaceflight Pharmacology</a>.

Transparent Day - Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty

7.19.19 Untitled (from a work in progress)

9.13.19 Untitled (from a work in progress)

Photo "Fertile Delta" (c) <a href="http://www.dreamstime.com/izoneguy_info">Izoneguy</a>

Fissure - Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty

La grande sonnerie (2013)

From the Paragaté album <a href="http://paragate.bandcamp.com/album/stillness-in-the-mirror">Stillness in the Mirror</a>.

Still Morning (2011) - Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty

From the album <a href="https://paragate.bandcamp.com/album/corridor">Corridor</a>.

Corridor (2010)

Tom DePlonty is a Massachusetts-based pianist and composer of mostly minimal and ambient electronic music. His albums include Corridor (2010), Blake Pieces (2014), and Assembly (2017). He collaborates with Tim Risher and others as part of the electronic project Paragaté.

Tom DePlonty

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