Landscape by joel taylor
This short work was the first piece of music that I created with Csound. Written and realized in 1993, it uses Risset Drone synthesis and FM synthesis techniques.
There are three waveforms used for the Risset Drone synthesis, which produces a cascade of harmonics...
Waveform no 1 consists of harmonics
1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and 17.
Waveform no 2 consists of harmonics
1, 2, 6, 7, and 11.
Waveform no 3 consists of harmonics
1, 3, 9, 12, 14, 15.
Written using Just Intonation, it starts with this 12-tone scale for the fundamental pitches, with 1/1 = A 440 Hz:
1/1, 21/20, 9/8, 6/5, 5/4, 4/3, 7/5, 3/2, 8/5, 5/3, 9/5, 15/8, 2/1
About two-thirds of the way through I expand the gamut to include intervals of 11 with 1/1 = 11/11 = A 440 Hz.
11/11, 12/11, 13/11, 14/11, 15/11, ...21/11,...22/11
The entire piece centers around A.
Joel Taylor is a composer/improvisor/programmer who works with a wide variety of electronic and acoustic media. He performs on analog synths, computers, keyboards, shakuhachi, suling, flute, and percussion, and has composed concert music for orchestra, gamelan, and various chamber ensembles.