Bohl-en Roll

seraph · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject: Bohl-en Roll

A piece based on a dodecatonic scale which repeats every 1901.955 cents (3/1 ratio). In order to fit a BP scale into an octave of a standard keyboard I chose to eliminate one of the usual 13 steps of it and I based this decision on the Bohlen-Pierce Scale Research Paper by Elaine Walker (the pattern of my scale is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13).

Listen to Bohl-en Roll

seraph · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject:

see also my posts on my blog: http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/category-music.html for related matters.

seraph · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:43 am Post subject:

how come someone, privately, referred to this song as "aggressively unpleasant" Question

Is that so?

Shocked

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:57 am Post subject:

What? No.. this is grand stuff!

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:22 am Post subject:

Absolutely brilliant stuff Seraph! Very Happy

88 VocoEast is also an awesome track.

You da man!

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:25 am Post subject:

Oh yes, this is terrific!

salut

seraph · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:10 am Post subject:

guys
and thanks to the guy who said it was "aggressively unpleasant" because somehow, I think, in a good way, it is Very Happy

as I replied to him: "once in a while it is cool to feel aggressively unpleasant". Just for a change... Wink

You can not possibly be always a nice guy Exclamation

pliorius · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject:

this is nice, like this rock, though beats could harden up, though, most probably, it would make the whole track more "aggressively 'you never know what may pleasure be' unpleasant" Smile

seraph · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:38 am Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:04 pm Post subject:

I agree,
If it sounded more like a real person, albeit a slightly unstable, overly excited, person was sitting behind the drumkit, then that would be the icing on the cake. Very Happy

Lite · Joined: Jul 24, 2010 Posts: 2 Location: USA

Sorry if I am much too late on the thread, but I have been studying the Bohlen-Pierce Scale lately and have stumbled upon this song. Did you modify any of the notes besides eliminating the 5th one from your scale? And which version of the BP-Scale is it? Equal temperature or just?

seraph · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:47 pm Post subject:

you can find all the explanations here.
The scale is the equal division of the tritave version Exclamation

Lite · Joined: Jul 24, 2010 Posts: 2 Location: USA

Thanks for the follow-up. I find the tritave to be fascinating and I wish there was more stuff on it out there. Everything I've read about the BP-scale has been through Elaine Walker's research. I'm thinking of programming a midi controller and working out some chord progressions using it.

seraph · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:55 am Post subject:

I guess you have already visited her YouTube channel. Check this out too Wink