Michael Harrison's Revelation for Piano

Michael Harrison performs Tone Cloud II from his epic
72-minute composition "Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation"

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[wd336]

Very nice sounds.......mesmerizing...

Oh wait, this is a youtube comment board...

Gah! Terrible! This sucks and you're all idiots!!

[worldofpenguin]

Actually, your indignation is perfectly equalled by your ignorance. This piece most certainly is not in 4/4 all the way through, large sections of it play with a 3/4-6/8 ambiguity. Out of tune? It utilizes one of the infinite other possibilities than equal temperament. As for the "future of music" comment.... go and ask your music teacher why that is a dumb thing to have said.

[ijustneedmyself84]

I had the fortune of hearing this live. He opened for Grizzly Bear. It was amazing.

[DCioccoloni]

La Monte Young sat there with his walking stick looks so coolXDDD

[poopr1221]

Sounds like an unreleased tune from Drukqs played on the piano. One of the few microtonal tunes that doesn't sound like wank.

[wrybeat]

this sounds fantastic, i love all the strange rippling beatting tones that get developed.

[coasterman16]

Although the tuning is interesting, this composition is about as gripping as stale bread. LaMonte Young's "The Well-Tuned Piano" is harmonically, rhythmically, and formally much more expansive. (I say this with the full knowledge that Young and Zazeela are in the audience.)

[coasterman16]

Although the tuning is interesting, this composition is about as interesting as stale bread. LaMonte Young's "The Well-Tuned Piano" is harmonically, rhythmically, and formally much more expansive.

[Sensenwerk]

I would like to know more about the background of your tuning. Can you tell us something about? Sounds definitly interesting, new... not as used up as the basic 12sqrt(2)-tuning. This is not pythagorein nor pure intonation... so what is it? : )

[saviorsdisciple]

Too bad the youtube quality on this is in mono.

[leakeg]

I think perhaps a note will sound consonant if it has a corresponding harmonic/overtone with the original note. The ratio example you gave (7:5) cannot be a harmonic of the original note hence sounds dissonant, but the ratio 4:5 is consonant (it's pretty close to the major third). Basically that means you need a number of the form '2^n' on the left hand side.

It can't be a coincidence the notes in the major and minor scales form these nice frequency ratios.

[leakeg]

@frosty956 You've made some good points here. I was over simplifying by saying whole number ratios are consonant, but I still don't completely agree with you .