Topic: Berceuse for Piano and Electronics

A new piano/electronics track, Berceuse explores slowly evolving transformations of a piano adagio in 19edo just intonation; a lullaby/pastorale for the sleepy unknowable.

Any comments about mastering, stereo positioning, anything, really, etc. are really, really welcome!

https://soundcloud.com/jeff_harrington/...al_sharing

Re: Berceuse for Piano and Electronics

Nice "painting" ! It sounds goods to me.  Well balanced... You can turn up the volume if you wish.

Last edited by Borealis (13-06-2022 19:41)

Re: Berceuse for Piano and Electronics

19-EDO - the tuning system derived by dividing the octave into 19 equally large steps. And normally we use 12-EDO, which divides the octave into 12 parts (am I right?) Learning new things here, thank you Jeff. Very interesting sound with 19-EDO.
I found this music to be pleasant and calming, might be partly 19-EDO, but the music itself is kind of a ”new” cradlesong. Also good for stress relief music.

You make undoubtledly amazing music /different music, and you understand space: Good that you experience the piano close to the foreground and the electronic beautiful sounds are in the background but well mixed so that they are heard both left and right but move suddenly far to the right or left with a
decreasing reverb….gives a feeling of a lullaby out in outer space - for ”the sleepy unknowable” 

Thank you Jeff. Enjoyed this much. Had a good time listening (and writing comment)

Keep the coming!
Best wishes,

Stig

Pianoteqenthusiast, Organteqenthusiast, Harpteqenthusiast, Harpsichordteqenthusiast and experimenter

Couldn't find the midi file in the list, maybe this is too new..

Re: Berceuse for Piano and Electronics

Thanks, Borealis!  I'm learnin'...


Borealis wrote:

Nice "painting" ! It sounds goods to me.  Well balanced... You can turn up the volume if you wish.

Re: Berceuse for Piano and Electronics

Yes! It's got an almost perfect just intonation harmonies that are transpoisable by 19 degrees. I'm using a Sibelius plugin to add pitchbends and it lets me use ordinary notation with 19 scale steps differentiating 19edo eb from d#, ab g#, etc. so you can get 19 note names.

Thanks as always for your enthusiasm and kind comments!!

Jeff

Pianoteqenthusiast wrote:

19-EDO - the tuning system derived by dividing the octave into 19 equally large steps. And normally we use 12-EDO, which divides the octave into 12 parts (am I right?) Learning new things here, thank you Jeff. Very interesting sound with 19-EDO.
I found this music to be pleasant and calming, might be partly 19-EDO, but the music itself is kind of a ”new” cradlesong. Also good for stress relief music.

You make undoubtledly amazing music /different music, and you understand space: Good that you experience the piano close to the foreground and the electronic beautiful sounds are in the background but well mixed so that they are heard both left and right but move suddenly far to the right or left with a
decreasing reverb….gives a feeling of a lullaby out in outer space - for ”the sleepy unknowable” 

Thank you Jeff. Enjoyed this much. Had a good time listening (and writing comment)

Keep the coming!
Best wishes,

Stig

Pianoteqenthusiast, Organteqenthusiast, Harpteqenthusiast, Harpsichordteqenthusiast and experimenter

Couldn't find the midi file in the list, maybe this is too new..

Re: Berceuse for Piano and Electronics

very cool

Re: Berceuse for Piano and Electronics

Indeed, a painting.  Like a watercolor with the colors flowing one into another, but permeated by some less diluted crisp strokes of more defined color.

Interesting and enjoyable.

- David

Re: Berceuse for Piano and Electronics

Thanks, dklein!! 

Uploaded the artwork and audio to Distrokid, so it should be up on Spotify shortly! Thanks to all the Pianoteq pianists and gurus who shared their knowledge, for making this possible...

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jeffr...n/berceuse

dklein wrote:

Indeed, a painting.  Like a watercolor with the colors flowing one into another, but permeated by some less diluted crisp strokes of more defined color.

Interesting and enjoyable.