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.

Saturday, April 09, 2005

Podcast1024: Subduction Zone by Prent Rodgers

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Today's piece is one I wrote, called Subduction Zone. It is scored for Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Guitar, Marimba, Finger Piano, and Percussion. It is based on four chords in the Partch Tonality Diamond: F 4/3 minor; A 8/5 major; C 1/1 major; and A 5/3 minor. There are many notes in common between these scales, and many more that are only slightly different. The subduction takes place where the differences lie.

For complete details about the piece, please see my web site here. The title comes from the geological phenomenon when two tectonic plates converge, and one goes under the other.