Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Summary and Equipment Needs

1. Stereo sound recording, duration of 6 min. An interpretation of Pachelbel's Canon in D into the Bohlen-Pierce scale. Overdubbed solo performance on an 8-string fretless bass with custom macrotonal tuning.

2. Space for two people to sit and listen to headphones.

3. Two pairs of reasonable quality headphones(I will provide a jack splitter).
One CD or mp3 playback device.
Two chairs (any type OK).
Either a pedestal or table, on which to place the playback device, headphones (when not in use) and informational pamphlets about the composition.

4. No special conditions requested; any space is OK.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Preparing work for Sandpoint

Proposition 1: Canon in J:
A translation/transfiguration of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D into the Bohlen-Pierce scale. I've already spent a significant amount of personal time and energy on this project since about December, envisioning it as a potential candidate for my senior thesis project. I feel confidant about being able to achieve a self-contained version of this piece as a <6 minutes overdubbed sound recording voiced by a microtonal instrument I have already customized specifically for this piece. I could write many pages about what I've already developed and learned for this project. For the time being, I recommend that anyone interested in some background information for my project visit the following website: http://members.aol.com/bpsite/

I have a 2.5 minutes demo recording available of the first several rounds (Currently this file is not online, as I've forgotten how to upload to the server).

Propositions 2 and 3: Either a short frame-by-frame-cut film derived from the final video piece I'm working on for the DXARTS video sequence, or a stereoscopic video focused on the effect of overlay technique and how depth perception is affected by overlays in 3-D film.