11/10 by Scott William Perry
11/10, for Virtual Instruments
Music by
Scott William Perry
This single ca. 45 minute composition that appears on this album re-orchestrated six times is in 11-Limit Just Intonation. It is meant for a computer to perform. Humans cannot play this music on live, acoustic instruments. Virtual instruments were used instead of their "real" counterparts because of the fact that the music is often of an impossible speed for "real" instruments. Also, the tuning of the scale used is not available on most of the instruments. The tuning is 1/1, 33/32, 11/10, 7/6, 5/4, 4/3, 11/8, 3/2, 99/64, 33/20, 7/4, 15/8, 2/1, with 1/1 being the same C you find in 12 EDO when A=440Hz.
There are a lot of influences from experimental music that went into this composition. Careful listening may reveal connections to Xenakis, Riley, Cowell, Tenney, Partch, Nancarrow, and an adult life spent in listening and composing in this vein.
Revised 9/27/23, added reverb tails and improved instrument balance.
Tracklist
Credits
Scott William Perry, PhD - MIDI Sequencing
License
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Scott Perry earned his PhD in music composition from UCSB in 2019. He holds a BA from UCSB (CCS), a MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a MA from UC Davis. His teachers include Beverly Grigsby, Jeremy Haladyna, Kurt Rohde, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Ulrich Krieger, Pablo Ortiz, Mika Pelo, David Rosenboom, Curtis Roads and Clarence Barlow.