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Digital Audio Albumtunings / Paul Turner.
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Featured Australian works
| Work | Composer | Performers | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| marching in waltzing out (2023) — acousmatic music |
Paul Turner | 6 mins, 12 sec. | ||
| november harmonies (2023) — acousmatic music |
Paul Turner | 3 mins, 21 sec. | ||
| organ voluntary (2024) — acousmatic music | Paul Turner | 3 mins, 22 sec. | ||
| second last post (2024) — acousmatic music |
Paul Turner | 3 mins, 34 sec. | ||
| verses and choruses (2024) — acousmatic music |
Paul Turner | 3 mins, 23 sec. | ||
| about a piano — acousmatic music |
Paul Turner | 4 mins, 40 sec. |
Product details
The timbres of recognised musical instruments inevitably call up associations. But what happens when the familiarity is disrupted by tuning the sounds to non-standard sets of pitches? And what happens when the instruments are made to play in unlikely or impossible ways?
Some, but not all, of the pieces in this set are tuned in 10 equal steps to the octave. This causes what the ear might interpret as the standard fourth and fifth intervals to be somewhat flat and sharp respectively. The only interval within the 10-note equal tempered scale that corresponds with the usual 12-note scale is the tritone, the half-way division. Everything else is different. Yet somehow there can be a tendency to hear the resulting harmonies as deviations from the standard tuning. Whether this is experienced as aesthetically pleasing or not let the listener decide.
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