Author Archives: noahdeanjordan

Fenómenos Transitorios / Airplant This piece uses solo microtonal requinto tuned to just intonation. It is largely exploring justly tuned triadic harmony mixed with use of variants and tangents of the 7th harmonic. Frequency ratios such as 5/4, 3/2, 7/6, and 7/4 are employed. The labyrinth of just intonation is fully infinite, an each acousticContinue reading “Fenómenos Transitorios”

The birds were washing themselves in the bird bath, I had never seen it before, I thought it was a fountain, that they were all fountains, there are nearly ten of them. I have Revueltas’ el Apando on my knee and a beer in my bag, I’m waiting for a pandero in the Parque inContinue reading “Moni en Teocelo”

Hello everyone, happy quarantine For a while now I’ve talked about doing pieces for the collection of the Sonido 13 pianos in San Luis Potosí.  Well, now I have an extra abundance of time and have started to explore some of the possibilities. My eventual goal is to make a work for all 16 ofContinue reading “Llegó anoche”

There are many approaches to 17tone notation.  I have finally found one that works for me (shown to me by Cam Taylor).   I believe my extension to be the same as his.  And I believe this to be analogous or directly mappable to Kite’s up & downs notation. Principles of this system include: naming conventionsContinue reading “17 tone notation”

“This is the next piece from the project, now titled: Formality vs Reality, with myself on 17-tone Rhodes and Dominic Conway on tenor saxophone.  This group name came from an early conversation between myself and Dominic about the deviances between notation, theory, and performance.  For example, in 12-tone systems, a notation will signify 12 differentContinue reading “November 13, 2018”

Since entering the world of microtonal music many years ago, I have found that there are many different perspectives on “what is microtonality”, “what is not microtonality”, and what other things we can this thing that some people are calling microtonality but hesitate because the word is not accurately describing the work they are doing.Continue reading “in-tune music and nomenclature”

To whom may be concerned, The pianos of Sonido 13 have long been unmaintained, and are currently in a state of (mild) disrepair and are not in-tune.  In 2014, I spent 2 months in an investigation of the pianos and the collection is really only in need of minor repairs.  To restore the collection toContinue reading “Sonido 13”

hey all, if you want to get involved in the talk about how to describe microtonal music by notation, and all of the questions it entails, in terms of pedagogy, composition, novice introduction, reduction of essential mathematics, colours, symbols, patterns, what is easy, who knows what, what is important, and all of those fun topicsContinue reading “notation of the future”