BP2010 Dr Boulanger Lecture (2of2)

Dr Richard Boulanger lecture at New England Conservatory

Talk Abstract:
Strategies and Solutions: Singing, Playing and Discussing Excerpts from my Bohlen-Pierce Compositions Solemn Song for Evening (1987), With Friends at C (2007), and I Know of No Geometry (1990 rev. 2010)

Note: "Solemn Song for Evening" was not only the first vocal piece in the BP scale, but the first BP music I was exposed to when he played and sang it during electronic music composition class at Berklee College of Music, during my undergrad. It opened my ears to a new world of tonality, and sent me on my life-long path of writing in different tunings. -ew

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Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston 2010

There has been enough interest lately in the Bohlen-Pierce Scale - a macrotonal musical tuning system based on a 3/1 frame (three times the frequency, called a "tritave", as opposed to the 2/1 "octave") divided by 13 equal steps - that an entire symposium was organized in Boston. It included the support of three major music educational institutions - Berklee College of Music, the Goethe Institute and New England Conservatory. Heinz Bohlen and Max Mathews skyped in at various times. It included three full days of talks and three full nights of music. I will type more information here soon and upload more videos as I get them digitized. Professional cameras were covering the entire symposium. Here I will just upload what I captured on my own camera. This symposium was very overwhelming for me, thinking I was among just a handful of interested BP fans. There were at least 40 people actively involved in this event and many more in the audience! See also: http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org/schedule and http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org/concert-1

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