"Opening Pandora" is a CD by Greg Fox, written November 2006. It explores equal temperament tunings, in particular 19tet piano, 11tet flute, 13tet clarinet and 10tet guitar. The piece is a CD length in duration and is pretty black in mood. It's in nineteen tracks and is available online via the Internet Archive.
The piece was written in a week using RMCP which is a freeware composition tool for writing indeterminate music via MIDI soundfonts. Individual threads were generated by chance using RMCP and recorded in Cool Edit and then the piece was moulded and post-composed by a mixture of action painting and intuition.
If you'd like a hard copy, please click the Paypal button at the foot of the page. Alternatively you can download it in MP3 format from the Internet Archive, complete with the supporting documentation including the four soundfonts and the maths behind their tuning.
A particular debt of gratitude for this CD is owed to Richard Baldy for the 19tet links and to Mathman and Chrrissty for considerable help with getting my thick head round logarithms and suchlike.
As a final note, the cover art picture is not a photograph of me so don't panic that I've gained 5 stone in a month. It's edited to look that way. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! :-)
The four soundfonts for the piece are available as part of this collection, as is the random MIDI stream generator used to write the piece. The soundfonts are not designed to fit around the anatomy of a standard keyboard; rather they rise logically in the same way as the standard 12tet, except their octaves fall at 11s, 13s, 10s and 19s instead of 12s. This was the most logical approach for composition with RMCP (freeware included in the collection).
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