Dang, Stacy! I don't know how you do these rhythmically complicated pieces. Playing off 3 against four requires such mental and manual independence. This is, truly, intergalactic.

Did you tune a real piano into just intonation, or did you achieve this through software? Im in love with this piece. Really beautiful work. 

Listening to this on repeat, this is round 4, its SO GOOD!

Microtonality Miniatures

#pianoday2022 
A humble and minimalistic composition without any airs and graces to celebrate pianoday 2022 and to say thank you. Thank you, for the beautiful time with Nils Frahm, when he was still in private cellars together with me and other dear people on the musical search... Nonumy (for you).

Lorem Ipsum

Nonumy

lullaby

Felt

(c) Paula Präktig
Music video: https://youtu.be/iSj5VyJ2sl4

Ghost Song

Intergalactic Lullaby begins with a brief prolation canon, and is in 7-limit just intonation with lots of syntonic commas(notes that are only 21.51 cents apart). The rhythm is mostly 3 against 4 where the right hand is playing triplets while the left hand is playing 16ths in groups of 6 and 3. 

Composed and performed by Stacy Fahrion for Piano Day 2022 using Pianoteq.

Intergalactic Lullaby in 7-limit Just Intonation

Hey there,
This is my contribution for Piano Day 2022. This year I choose to produce a soundtrack full of hope, with a dreamy and catchy mood at the same time. 
Love,
Géraldine

Wing Beats

@jacob_david
🎧 https://idol-io.link/mrpd-glemt

Glemt

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Jacob David - Glemt

TÉPHRA(#Pianoday2022)

The Absent Father

Experimenting with descending and ascending patterns

Morning Expression

Morning Expressions

This album is a collection, raw and spontaneous, and the fruit of 15 days of artistic residency in the beautiful setting of La Becque, La Tour de Peilz (CH), in partnership with Françoise Siegfried Meier Foundation and the Montreux Jazz Artist Foundation.

A setting in which I was able to express myself, on grand piano and essentially on prepared piano, with introspection and escape.


This logbook is intended to be raw, spontaneous and representative of the immersive moments I have experienced.
Some improvisations are therefore presented, such as the themes "Memories", "Serenity 1 and 2", "La Becque", or experiments ("overdrive", "rework")
The theme "Mrs. Siegfried Meier" is a tribute.

Memories is also composed for PianoDay 2019.

Mme Siegfried Meier #Pianoday2022

A little improv in Pythagorean tuning by Stacy Fahrion. I'm currently using the free trial version of Pianoteq. It's an amazing program, and so far I actually love the creative limitations it imposes by leaving certain black keys out.

D Phrygian improvisation in 5/4 with 3-limit tuning by Stacy Fahrion

The cycle in the LH is 5+6+7+6+5, and the RH is playing a 3 over 5 polyrhythm.

Meditation on Time (29-beat pattern In G Dorian)

Now that I'm exploring microtonality I spend time deciding new things like whether or not the 2nd should be 10/9 or 9/8. 10/9 seemed a bit too mellow, so I went for 9/8.

D Minor 5-limit miniature with 9:8 E

5:4 with some 7-limit cubes

Exuberance is beauty." ~William Blake (one of the more perplexing phrases from Proverbs of Hell)

A few days ago, I programmed Michael Harrison's 7-limit Revelation tuning into Pianoteq using Scala, and I feel like I could spend years just experimenting with this particular tuning. I began by playing excerpts of his gorgeous, mind-blowing piece, Revelation, and then veered off into improvising with the tuning a bit. This is the first thing I came up with, and Michael Harrison's tuning is really what makes it sound cool. At the very least, it's fun to play. 

Find out more about Michael Harrison and his music here: https://www.michaelharrison.com/
Find out more about Michael Harrison and his music here: https://www.michaelharrison.com/

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Whimsically Macabre Sheet music, including my recent book, Polyrhythms for Pianists: https://pianopronto.com/composers-community/stacy-fahrion/

Whimsically Macabre recordings: https://whimsicallymacabre.bandcamp.com/
(Watch for my album, Polyrhythmic Pieces for Piano, coming very soon!)

Exuberance (7-limit Revelation tuning)

Stacy Fahrion is a composer-pianist and educator based in Colorado, and is currently creating music in just intonation that frequently features polyrhythms, polymeters, and isorhythm.

Intergalactic Lullaby in 7-limit Just Intonation

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