Competition website:
semantic-danielou.com
I've finally decided to publish my microtonal compositions which I have made for the ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ organized by ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐-๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ ๐
๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ (๐
๐๐๐) and ๐๐๐๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐๐จ๐ง*. ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ (overall winner) and ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐บ - ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐จ๐ฐ (best film score). It was a ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ competition and I submitted ten minutes before deadline after having had only a week, but I've left the somewhat generic sounding original instruments and only did a warmer remaster than the submitted audio. Please have a listen! - namaste, Tomi
* ๐๐๐๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐๐จ๐ง is a musical ... ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐, born in 1951. In the late 60's he was a pioneer of French psychedelic rock in formations like ๐'๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฅรฉ๐ and ๐รฉ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐. Soundtrack for ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐จ ๐๐จ๐๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ค๐ข'๐ฌ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฌ, stage-sharing with ๐
๐ซ๐๐ง๐ค ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐, organizer of the first Rock Festival in Kabul, touring the Middle East and India, friendship and synergy with ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ง (๐๐จ๐ง๐ ) - Monsieur Dudon is psychedelic rock history in person. Jacques is also a microtonal expert, singer in classical Indian style, and instrument inventor ๐คฏ. We met eventually and had some fun hanging out, exchanging musical ideas and rescuing my car from a slippery slope.
About the musical system used in this competition (from Wikipedia):
The Semantic System is based on a microtonal musical scale tuned in just intonation, developed by ๐ผ๐ก๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฟ๐๐ฃ๐รฉ๐ก๐ค๐ช.
For Alain Daniรฉlou the subtleties of the intervals of music of oral traditions cannot be expressed using the equal temperament tuning system of 12 notes per octave, which has been the prevalent system in Western culture for around two centuries. This "artificial" musical scale was developed as a compromise, to standardise musical instruments by reducing the number of notes they could play, but it also reduced the possibilities of expression for both composers and musicians.
ยซ Alain Daniรฉlou draws attention to the fact that a musical culture that adopts a system of equal temperament thereby sacrifices the possibility of expressing all but the most general significations inherent in a musical language. ยป
After many years spent researching and leading experiments in the world of Indian modal music, Alain Daniรฉlou published a book entitled Sรฉmantique Musicale [fr] in which he proposes one of the most elaborated microtonal scales of just intonation.
According to him, the human ear is able to identify and classify pitches by using binary, ternary and quinary frequency ratios as a reference point. This theory gives rise to the unequal division of the octave into 53 notes, with frequency ratios composed solely of products of powers of prime numbers 2, 3 and 5.
