Microtonal Podcasts

This is a blog designed for Podcasting New Music by contemporary composers. While I favor microtonal music on this website, I also post music by other composers as well. I believe that composers should spend ten minutes a day, every day, making music. You can skip composing on those days you don't eat. Listeners should also spend ten minutes a day listening to music that is totally different from what they usually hear. This site is a good source for that kind of different music.

Sunday, November 14, 2004

Podcast1024: The Stuffed Ones by Christopher Bailey

This is a suite of four pieces for microtonal piano by Christopher Bailey. The Stuffed Ones a brief set of character pieces about his stuffed animals.

Goopy, the impetuous, angry, volatile little doggie.
Ellie, the lumbering elephant.
Ziggy, floating, always floating . . . . .
Towelbear, bouncing back and forth on his bow legs.

The pieces are in 11-tone equal temperment. Chris writes: "I don't really think of them as "piano" pieces, but rather has being written for my XV-3080 synth (there are definitely a lot of non-piano sounds!). The tool I used was MicroMidi". For more info, see his page.

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