Toward the Continuum | polychromatic 106 dolomuse 2012-02-16 | A musical journey toward hearing and expressing an undivided pitch Continuum. Suggesting infinite polychromatic auditory 'pitch-colors', currently expressed only in gradations of our black and white, monochromatic language. This is a polychromatic composition with 106 pitches per octave. It is a 'bridge' composition intended to expand aural perception and awareness of microtonal pitch 'color' and harmony within a quasi-conventional musical context.This is a composition expressed with the hope of expanding the traditional (absolute) conception of fixed pitch/intervals in music toward awareness of an undivided continuum of (relative) spectral pitch 'colors' and interrelationships.... as an awareness of the infinite potential varieties of 'red' would be to a visual artist, both in isolation and within the context of the surrounding colors and illumination.More information, polychromatic score and audio file downloads are available at: dolorescatherino.compolychromaticmusic.com
Chaotic Beauty | polychromatic 84 dolomuse 2023-12-31 | Seeking beauty in a world of chaos, instability and fate, reveals the possibility of chaotic beauty — and a sublimation of meaning [in the sense of shifting states of awareness; in analogy to scientific sublimation: the transition from the solid phase to the gas phase without passing through an intermediate liquid phase].Chaos theory suggests that, within an ostensibly random (meaningless) world of complex systems, there exist opaque underlying patterns, integrated connections, interactivity, and spontaneous self-organization.Adaptation to dynamic environments transform a reactive fear of the unknown into an expansive openness and flexible ‘grounding’ in the constantly shifting world of experience.Culturally, this means moving beyond a monochromatic, diametric mindset of consonance/dissonance; unity/disintegration; harmony/discord; stability/disruption; creativity/deconstruction; cohesion/anarchy; meaning/nihilism. This ‘polarity perspective’ can become transformed into an awareness of integrated, elemental opposing forces, oscillating in and out of balance in response to changing conditions. Fear incites a search for stability, in faith or belief, which might provide a meaningful context to seemingly random, senseless, ill-fated events. Fear of the unknown, unpredictable and ambiguous can cause an unsettling discomfort, which may become collectively amplified into a pervasive cultural discord.Wider perspectives encourage us to move beyond the cultural fragmentation inherent in reactive postmodern deconstruction, nurturing creativity and flexible adaptation — discovering a more comprehensive synergy.With the development of wider perspectives, we may begin to see unique challenges as existing within a recurring pattern of individual/cultural conscious evolution:stasis/status quo ➞ disruption ➞ deconstruction ➞ chaos ➞ creative paradigm shift ➞ reintegration ➞ synergy ➞ expansion and development ➞ codification/entrenchment ➞ complacency ➞ stasis/status quo ➞ ...The experience of an ever-increasing rate of change necessitates a practice and development of flexibility, improvisation, outcome detachment, adaptation and adaptability, and an openness toward the unexpected.Perceiving beauty within chaotic experience may help us find peace in our constantly shifting present moments and revitalize optimism for the future — inspiring an endless search for enduring meaning in an ephemeral world. Performed on a Lumatone keyboard at a pitch resolution of 84 notes per octave.Lumatone: lumatone.ioaudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/chaotic-beauty-polychromatic-84score: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Chaotic-Beauty-score.pdf84 EDO Tuning implementation: The Lumatone has 8 rows of keys. The diatonic layout, A-G, has 7 notes per octave, for a maximum pitch resolution of 56 notes per octave. One way to extend pitch resolution further, is to use the 56 keys as a subset of a larger temperament. With this approach, 84 notes per octave would require 12 rows of keys for full implementation, which I visualize as two unused rows below red and two above violet. It’s a compromise, but it allows for a limited exploration of pitch-color combinations using an interval step size of ~14.29 cents (84 equal divisions of the octave).
synChronicity | polychromatic 70 dolomuse 2023-09-18 | Somewhere between probability and randomness, we might find an experience of familiar and meaningful resonance. Sensing an intense connection that feels timeless. An instantaneous familiarity (openness; déjà vu; prescience) - intuitive and unexplainable. A feeling of profound awe and wonder. An awareness of the presence of something extraordinary. An invitation... Where words cannot suffice, music expresses. Performed on the Lumatone keyboard at a pitch resolution of 70 notes per octave.syn: bring togetherChronos: in time; duration as an interval of existence-ity: condition or quality of beingmorse code: "send transmission..."Lumatone hex keyboard: lumatone.ioscore: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/synChronicity-score.pdfaudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/synchronicity
textures in time | polychromatic 49 dolomuse 2023-08-10 | Moments of fate and synchronicity transform us. Chaotic harmony is an expression of this constant transformation of feeling and perception. Polychromatic music provides a palette of pitch-colors, expanding the expression of chaotic beauty in sound. With patience and openness, the unfamiliar discomfort (and dissonance) of chaotic interaction is slowly transformed into a chaotic harmony. Somehow, we can find an acceptance of constant change and unending adaptation — punctuated by moments of relative stillness. From this, we may find a new awareness of harmony, beauty and respite within the instability - in an era where instability becomes the rule rather than the exception.Performed on the Lumatone keyboard at a pitch-color resolution of 49 notes per octave.more information on the Lumatone keyboard: lumatone.ioaudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/textures-in-time-polychromatic-49score: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/textures-in-time-score.pdf
time-cycles | polychromatic 56 dolomuse 2023-05-13 | Expressing the bitter-sweetness of life experience through polychromatic tensions and resonances. Exploring the musical space between consonance and dissonance. Performed with the Lumatone keyboard at a pitch-resolution of 56 notes per octave.Musical tones are measured in cycles per second (Hertz). I wonder if our auditory perception of time is fundamentally different from our visual perception of time.polychromatic score: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/time-cycles-score.pdfaudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/time-cycles
Structures in Sound | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2022-09-26 | Exploring more harmonic structures within polychromatic music. 72 notes per octave. Instruments: Microzone U648 and Seaboard Rise.Global tuning: Microzone keyboard is transposed down a 5th (D4 = A4 440 Hz); Seaboard Rise is in standard tuning A4 = 440 Hz.Polychromatic score: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Structures-in-Sound-Polychromatic-Score.pdfaudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/structures-in-sound
analog_shadows | polychromatic continuum dolomuse 2022-01-01 | Musing on the increasing digitization of human experience. Reflecting on the beauty and possibilities within our analog lives. Exploring endless nuances of auditory perception; existing between the 0's and 1's of complex digital simulations and quantizations of expression. Searching and moving closer, toward the continuum.Adding elements of noise, distortion, and space to explore their impacts on overall 'dissonant' and spatial qualities of harmony. Performed on the Continuum Fingerboard - 3D gestural surfaceScore transcribed at 72 EDO pitch resolutionaudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/analog-shadows
sound-transformation | polychromatic 56 dolomuse 2021-08-20 | Introducing more rhythm and space into the composite of slowly-evolving spatial patterns of polychromatic harmony.Performed on the Lumatone Isomorphic Keyboard - 56 notes per octavelumatone.ioaudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/sound-transformationscore: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/sound-transformation.pdf
reIntegrations I polychromatic continuum dolomuse 2021-02-15 | reIntegrations speaks to a time where we begin emerging from prolonged social isolation and civil alienation--toward a more diverse, pluralistic culture. A new era existing beyond the "us-them" frameworks of the past. Music can demonstrate a path beyond the black and white, monochromatic worldview, toward a polychromatic perspective which expresses a wider awareness of new intervals, harmonies and interrelationships.Continuum Fingerboard: hakenaudio.comaudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/reintegrations-iscore: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/reIntegrations-I-r2.pdfScore transcribed at 72 EDO pitch resolution
REQUIEM - 2020 | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2021-01-03 | In dedication to, and acknowledgement of worldwide human tragedy and a sustaining hope in the midst of a virulent pandemic. Symbolizing voices of humanity; a collective longing to find meaning and connection in a world of increasing disruption.pitch resolution: 72 notes per octaveinstrument: MicroZone starrlabs.com/product/microzone-u648score: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Requiem-2020-score.pdfaudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/requiem-2020
InterSpaces | polychromatic continuum dolomuse 2020-11-11 | 'interspaces' signifies the pitch intervals in-between the monochromatic intervals of a 12 note octave. Prior practice and ear training with fixed pitch controllers helps to refine awareness of the movements and tensions within micro-pitch intervals. The Continuum is capable of extraordinary expressiveness in a very different and unbounded pitch/interval dimension. Because the Continuum is not a fixed pitch instrument, we can explore the area of "dynamic pitch" -- meaning that the pitch-colors and intervals can change over the duration of a single, sustained note and chord. The Continuum Fingerboard has an onboard sound engine with a pitchbend range up to 96 (equal divisions of the octave?). Most VST sound sources can only implement a pitchbend range up to 24-48.instrument: Haken Continuum Fingerboard: hakenaudio.comAudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/interspacesScore: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/InterSpaces-score.pdfScore transcribed at 72 EDO pitch resolution
integrations | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2020-09-19 | Musing about what comes after the polarizing divisiveness of this postmodern time and culture. I've noticed that when listening to music with lyrics, my mind always engages with the musical sound and it takes alot of effort to focus on the lyrics.By extension, I wonder if, as musicians we each have unique tendencies to put a sonic aspect in the ‘foreground’ of our perception (melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, words). Maybe this orientation becomes a ‘baseline’ perspective from which we create, speak, and listen.One visual example is looking at a Necker Cube (2D sketch of a 3D cube), which can show us two ‘true’ perspectives--although both can’t be seen simultaneously. After seeing our initial perspective, the other 'perspective' has to be actively sought out in order to be discovered. Maybe this is the challenge of our time—to recognize the existence of multiple ‘truths’ even if we, by habit of thought, are grounded in only a single perspective. And maybe music is best suited to express this idea; to express, indirectly, a path toward integration. Especially in an era of information overload, where words (information, misinformation, disinformation) have become so distorted and polarizing. Seemingly infinite perspectives are embedded in the sound. Keep seeking! And check out the sonic transformations when you change the playback speed...fascinating!pitch resolution: 72 notes per octaveinstrument: Microzone. starrlabs.com/product/microzone-u648score: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/integrations-score.pdfaudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/integrations
OUT∃R WΩRLDS | polychromatic 55 dolomuse 2020-06-16 | ‘OUT∃R WΩRLDS’∃ = existential quantifier symbol; there exists _____.Ω = omega symbol; nearing the end of an accumulation of extraordinary development and existing at the boundary of profound transformation -- within a process of ever-expanding consciousness.Exploring the music “between the notes”. Hidden worlds of auditory perception. Interactive structures and motions that we can hear but not see. A sonic gestalt [sum greater than parts] of perception and understanding. Imagining new ways to ‘hear the world’.Note a lifelike quality within the chords, apart from the external motion of chord progressions— a different sense of "harmonic motion". Also, notice that changing the playback speed creates an overwhelming degree of audio artifact. This is fascinating because audio time stretching algorithms aren't supposed to affect pitch!Understanding "Music" as an expression (through sonic 'metaphor') of ideas, emotions, meaning... thoughts existing beyond the limits of spoken language. Performed on the Lumatone Isomorphic Keyboard - 55 notes per octaveAudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/out-r-w-rlds score: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/OUT%E2%88%83R-W%CE%A9RLDS.pdfMore information:Lumatone keyboard: http://www.lumatone.ioUniversal Tuning Editor: https://hpi.zentral.zone/utePolyChromatic system: polychromaticmusic.com
PolyChromatic Music with the Lumatone dolomuse 2020-05-07 | Exploring musical possibilities with the Lumatone keyboard. The polychromatic system integrates easily with the color implementation of this new MIDI controller. The Lumatone can also be split and programmed with multiple tunings and varieties of iso/polymorphic, colorized layouts!An analogy is a painter’s selection of palette colors to mix within a work, as well as the ease of selecting unique color palettes for each composition. The polychromatic system is an attempt to create a simple framework with flexible assignments of pitch-color, relative to any tuning method, being built upon a consistent rainbow color series from (infra/flat) red to (ultra/sharp) violet. This makes transitions to different pitch-palettes easier for musicians and dovetails well with standard music and tab notation. The Lumatone is based on a modified Terpstra design (circa 1980’s) which is, to my eyes, a variant of the Wilson layout (circa 1970’s) with the added innovation of a cascade key design (hex keys gradually ascend in height from front to back). The Lumatone design has further implemented per hex key LED color, Note# and Channel# assignment, velocity sensitivity, and has capacity for added firmware functionality like aftertouch implementation, as its keys can also render continuous control (MIDI CC) messages in addition to note on/off.Lumatone keyboard: http://www.lumatone.ioUniversal Tuning Editor: https://hpi.zentral.zone/utePolyChromatic system: polychromaticmusic.comMore information:Siemen Terpstra: http://siementerpstra.comErv Wilson: http://anaphoria.com/wilson.html-
Spectral Transformations | polychromatic 55 dolomuse 2020-04-25 | A polychromatic composition with the prototype Lumatone keyboard. 55 notes per octave. The Lumatone can implement custom key colors, MIDI note/channel numbers, and tuning layouts. Scheduled for production in late 2020. This is the first keyboard controller that I've used which does not have an embedded 12 note chromatic (black note) pattern. Here, I'm applying the polychromatic system to pitches 'A' through 'G' and using pitch-color to distinguish varying shades of flat/sharp. This simplifies the system further and also eliminates the need for key signatures or microtonal pitch modifier symbols (accidentals).More information about the Lumatone keyboard at: http://www.lumatone.ioMicro-tunings for the Lumatone and any keyboard controller are implemented with the UTE (Universal Tuning Editor): https://hpi.zentral.zone/utescore: polychromaticmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Spectral-Transformations.pdfaudio track: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/spectral-transformations
PolyChromatic Dimensions 3 - Conversations in Music dolomuse 2020-04-22 | A discussion about working with the prototype Lumatone keyboard. A new composition is in progress as well as a video demonstration of this new instrument.
PolyChromatic Dimensions 2 - Conversations in Music dolomuse 2020-02-29 | A discussion of my musical background, modern trends in audio processing, microtonal MIDI implementation, integrated A/V technology, sound therapeutics and the new Lumatone Keyboard.
PolyChromatic Dimensions 1 - Conversations in Music dolomuse 2020-02-16 | The beginning of a series of conversations about the polychromatic system, pitch-color, and modern trends in the language of music. Add questions in the comments section for future podcasts.
EXPANSE | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2020-02-08 | Expanse: Exploring the unknown limits of musical sound. Whenever a symbolic language is expanded (in music, math, science, English, etc.), new ideas and possibilities can be structured in thought and expressed to others. This renewal leads to new questions, new discoveries, and eventually toward wider perspectives.The polychromatic system creates an intuitive, pitch-color framework for creating music with micro-pitch (microtonal, xenharmonic) scale generation methods. Not only can it denote any way of dividing the octave into subset scales, but it can also allow the composer to use multiple scale types in one composition, in succession or simultaneously. The polychromatic system is able to symbolically represent, by means of a 'pitch-color' concept and symbology, over 100 pitches within an octave.As an expanded symbolic language, the polychromatic system has opened up immense new possibilities for exploring complex resonances, audible interactions of harmonics/phase, and new dimensions of tonality.audio download: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/expanseSpecial thanks to Videezy.com for the ending animation.
Inflexion | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2019-12-10 | Inflexion - a movement toward profound transformation. In a postmodern world, where emerging narratives replace the stability of a prior cultural meta-narrative, more voices are striving to be heard. An initial sense of dissonance and chaos slowly moves toward stability -- within a more complex form of harmony.”The limits of my language are the limits of my world." - WittgensteinWhen the language of cultural discourse becomes rigidly divisive, and words lose any stable meaning, music can transcend limitations of communication and become a unifying force, rooted in common awareness, experience and emotion. Each language presents unique strengths and limitations to the awareness and understanding of our world and ‘reality’. Music can express this tension without divisiveness and demonstrate the potential, and hope, for bringing together diverse voices within new complexities of harmony. A movement beyond ‘either-or’ understanding, toward ‘both-and’ awareness; and in the process, a discovery of wider balance and integration between them.Psychoacoustic anomaly: The same tone (B green) seems to have a different pitch in two different tonal contexts - at 6:44 and 6:54.In effect, this demonstrates a chameleon-like aspect of pitch: adapting -- changing its auditory ‘appearance’ -- relative to the sonic context it is immersed in. This seems to suggest a conception of pitch which is interactively determined rather than being absolutely defined (acontextually discrete). more information: polychromaticmusic.comPodcast: http://nowandxen.libsyn.com/172-dolores-catherino?fbclid=IwAR0BoRKM8X_yObf2uker_Baex5IBoEq5nEk-gRMoNlOpXh7mU-4D660LDAo
N⩞SCENT | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2019-09-02 | N⩞SCENT - coming into being. The birth of extraordinary potentiality and hope within difficult times. Crisis seems to be the catalyst to profound change and progress. A crisis-evolution cycle repeats throughout human experience. In difficult times, greatness emerges - compassion in the midst of hostility; awareness in the midst of deception; striving in the midst of apathy; hope in the midst of despair.As the rate of change accelerates, some take advantage of the fear caused by this instability. And yet these same actions also create the conditions for the development of inner strength, purpose and greater meaning in response.Audio track available at: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/n-scent
PolyChromatic Music Theory I dolomuse 2019-04-28 | More information and observations about the polychromatic system and its function within microtonal and xenharmonic music.Instruments shown:Continuum FingerBoard: hakenaudio.comMicrozone U648: starrlabs.com/product/microzone-u648Seaboard: roli.com/products/seaboardTonal Plexus: https://hpi.zentral.zone/tonalplexusSyntact: ultrasonic-audio.com/products/syntact-touch-the-sound
Pràxis: 1 | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2019-04-09 | Pràxis: I is a polychromatic composition still-in-process. It is posted now in response to an unprecedented level of 'ownership' claims over foundational elements of our musical language. This is an open invitation to collaborate and explore creative possibilities within a Creative Commons BY-SA environment. pràxis: a process of engaging, practicing or applying ideas; through which theory, skill, craft and art are developed and expressed. Pràxis can also create alternatives to widening legal appropriations of musical language; specifically by the targeting of Fair Use and transformative works. The YouTube creator community is being negatively impacted by increasing automated takedowns and targeted monetization stripping of transformative (fair use) content. This situation is establishing an environment which erodes the motivation to create and publish transformative and educational works.The recent approval of the European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD; 'Article 13') will inevitably result in unintended consequences, many to the detriment of present/future creative practice, development and expression. Creativity in music and the sound arts has historically relied on accessibility to old/new ideas and exemplary works. Traditional methods of learning in the arts begin with practice of the craft: methods and techniques, initially developed through imitation. Imitation leads to proficiency and mastery, and later becomes a basis for innovation. Each creative individual has a unique composite of talents. Some may be big-picture visionaries; some may be expansive innovators; some may refine ideas with great attention to detail and diverse perspectives; some may discover an idea which changes the course of their creative lives.This situation seems to be another manifestation of late-capitalism in the sense that the escalating legal claims to ‘ownership' of musical ideas are effectively discouraging creative evolution rather than promoting it. Over the long run, this undermines the development of our future creators of radically transformative ideas and art.Even beyond the escalating appropriation of Fair Use transformative and educational works, the ability of a copyright owner to claim YouTube monetization generated from a larger transformative work is effectively all-or-nothing. For example, if a 5 minute transformative work uses 15 seconds of copyrighted material under Fair Use, an automated infringement claim may result in a claim to full-ownership of the monetization revenue generated by the entire work - even though 95% of the copyrighted content belongs to the creator of the transformative work. Or monetization of the work may be entirely removed. A framework for the apportionment of creative content and monetization has yet to be implemented when Fair Use works are contested. However, no viable means for a content creator to refute an infringement claim has been implemented by YouTube yet. Currently, the companies that claim infringement and appropriate video monetization are also the arbiters of whether infringement has occurred. And they are not even required to provide proof of infringement - either to the content creator or YouTube. One possible response by the creative community is in the formation of an ‘open-source’ environment for creating music in the future. Within the Creative Commons BY-SA attribution, monetization is still possible with transformative works: with an understanding that you credit the source(s) and extend this derivative freedom forward by allowing others to create transformative works, using elements of your BY-SA works.This creator-friendly environment could establish wider accessibility to creative ideas and people. As a collaborative process, it supports the unique creative talents of the next generation of artists in an inspiring, open environment of evolving ideas. Hopefully, we can begin to actively design new artist environments where creativity can be encouraged, developed and shared. And in this process, develop next-gen, financially sustainable artist platforms.
Vox Aeterna | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2018-12-17 | An expression of the timeless and constantly evolving ‘voice’ (consciousness) of humanity and all sentient beings. An enduring ‘voice’ (expression) of striving, growth and hope, as we live through, and are forever changed by, recurring experiences of harmony and discord, creation and destruction, integration and separation. From within a chaotically changing world, emerges an expanding awareness of dissonance, consonance and resonance as fundamental aspects of this experience. Music is an optimal language to express ideas in this realm of experience.Art has a unique strength to illuminate opaque realms of experience and intuition. Each symbolic language (discursive, mathematical, artistic; literal, abstract) reveals different and seemingly incommensurable perspectives or dimensions of this common, yet uniquely individual experience. Each system of expression and understanding reflects a partial awareness. And our experience may be in some way a reflection of our consciousness and awareness.Vox Aeterna is an eternal 'voice' existing beyond our limited conceptions of time and space, yet also existing within an experience of increasing transience and instability.Audio tracks are available at: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com
Antinomy | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2018-06-24 | Antinomy: incompatible truths/facts; anomalies; irreconcilable differences/perspectives; all pushing the boundaries of language, awareness and understanding toward ever-expanding limits.Antinomies expose the limitations of binary, either/or, 0/1 logic, as well as the use of discrete, categorical and conceptual boundaries in language.Examples: logical and rational/irrational paradoxes; catch-22; sociological: an American era of mass incarceration as a ‘solution’ (which generates more expansive problems) to the difficulties of drug addiction, poverty, homelessness, unaddressed psychiatric illness, etc. 'Antinomy' as an awareness and curiosity of audible anomalies of sound which seem to be incompatible with visually-based conceptions of space: superposition of sound ‘objects’ in space, sound waves constructively/destructively interfering AND passing through, intact without structurally modifying interactions. An intuition emerges, of a multidimensional auditory ‘space’ (field) with more than 3 dimensions, subject to different patterns and characteristics, in addition to those aspects perceived, conceived and measured visually.audio track available at: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/antinomy
Stillness, in Motion | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2017-12-09 | Art exists to express the unique experiences, emotions and ideas of each era. In an era of increasingly rapid change, and the erosion of language through misinformation, disinformation and ‘plausible deniability’, some sense of enduring foundation is more necessary than ever. This is the ‘stillness’ that can guide and inspire in a world of quickening transience and nihilism. Art can hint at the existence of deeper, sublime perspectives, and a sense of hope and possibilities beyond the struggles of the present.This composition is an exploration further into the world of polychromatic tonality. In listening, my hope is that it inspires curiosity and discovery of a sense of movement and dimensionality within the chords; Increasing perceptual distinctions between musical pitch-colors; awareness of sensations and physical resonances to the sonic phenomena.global reference pitch: A=324 Hzpitch-resolutiion: 72 edo (equal divisions of the octave)audio track available at: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com/track/stillness-in-motionSpecial thanks for the ending video clip: Royalty-free Stock-Footage/Video editing/VFX/Graphics by CyberWebFX (www.cyberwebfx.com)
convergence | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2017-08-20 | Convergence - an intuitive composition process which vaguely aims toward increasing clarity and a sense of 'directionality' and flow. A process where ideas, intuition, imagination and seemingly infinite possibilities slowly converge into an expressive form. Paradoxically, as ideas and impressions converge toward an 'answer', new expansive possibilities and questions become 'visible', and the process continues in unforeseen directions...This process demonstrates a sense of Leonardo da Vinci's observation that art is never finished, only abandoned. And an intuition of the fixed art 'object' as a limited, expressive intimation of a profound, inexpressible creative 'process'.In practicing the creative process, a sense emerges of greater meaning and synchronicity in the joys and tragedies of life. Convergence is an enduring mystery...facebook.com/dolomusefor more info on polychromatic music:youtube.com/results?search_query=tedxsacramentoyoutube.com/watch?v=ZMRUm_CoW-Iaudio tracks available at: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com
Hope, in Turbulence | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2017-05-08 | The individual process of seeking an enduring Hope and sense of greater meaning, within an experience of constant change and turbulence.Turbulence - instability, disturbance, unpredictability, randomness, fluctuation, disorder, unrest, agitation.An unending process of finding meaning and purpose in the joy, tragedy and random instabilities of life. The perpetual seeking of order, and of sustaining value in a rapidly changing world. The difficulty of creating a meaningful existence in a journey that frequently feels like that of a passenger in a vehicle with only an accelerator and no brakes or steering. Searching for an understanding of reactive cultural swings, between the extreme endpoints of oppressive, conservatism toward progressive anarchy and back again. Seeking out creative possibilities beyond an institutionalized apathy, ennui and a passive stasis of human potential. An enduring hope for a synergetic/collaborative paradigm of sustainable, evolving existence, in a modern world where (ephemeral; transient) value is assigned to short-term success, efficient compliance, disposability/planned obsolescence, and instant gratification. Change and flux are inevitable, yet Hope endures.audio tracks: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.comwebsite: http://www.dolorescatherino.comfacebook: facebook.com/dolomuseYou can find my TEDx talk on Polychromatic Music posted at: youtube.com/watch?v=EfJbS5jPiOk
duration | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2017-02-09 | Duration - expressing the mysterious process which lies between the measured data points used in scientifically describing motion, time, space, mind/consciousness etc. A temporal gestalt existing beyond the conceptual 'collapsing' of dynamic process into a succession of static measurements in numerical language; where the 'shell' (appearance) becomes increasingly clarified while the core (essence) becomes increasingly obscured.The idea of 'duration' as a continuous, integrated process hints at aspects and qualities which are closer to the realm of art and musical expression; a perspective fundamentally different from, yet complementary to, modern quantitative and mechanistic perspectives.On a deeper level, 'duration' demonstrates a characteristic of any language, in which the advances and limitations of understanding are bounded by the unique structure and assumptions of each. Each language represents a partial perspective, illuminating certain aspects while, at the same time, concealing and distorting others.The subject/predicate structure of language conceptually collapses 'duration' into a sort of temporal ’ether’ within which time points/waves are measured/propagated. audio tracks: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.commore information: dolorescatherino.comfacebook: facebook.com/dolomuseMicrozone u-648 keyboard: starrlabs.com/product/microzoneu648You can find my TEDx talk on Polychromatic Music posted at youtube.com/watch?v=EfJbS5jPiOk
Sentience | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2016-11-09 | ‘Sentience’ - the human capacity to feel, perceive and experience subjectively; in distinction to the ability to think (reason).In response to the growing extension of Artificial Intelligence into areas like musical creativity, this polychromatic composition uses music technology as an assistant to the human imagination (composing process). This approach is in contrast to different varieties of creativity which use technology to generate musical elements for human editing and arrangement (compositing process).Rapidly advancing technology is leading to the replacement of more human activities while also modifying human involvement into roles as assistant, support and maintenance in service to technology. In many respects, because of the digitization/quantization of musical elements in MIDI, music is at the forefront of this trend as we see the impacts of technological replacement of musicians and more recently, songwriters.Music and art express a different kind of knowledge, intelligence and experience from that of scientific, logical, and mathematical areas.‘Artificial Intelligence’ is, at best, a simile or metaphor for awareness. Understanding of meaning and relevance are beyond its computational framework, which can, with increasing sophistication, display mere imitations of unquantifiable processes of mind.As AI amasses ever-increasing quantities of information, hierarchically organized and structured through programmed algorithms, the conception of ‘artificial intelligence’ is being extended into similes of ‘consciousness’ and ‘creativity’. This idea seems to presume that increasing quantities of information somehow transform into (or become a surrogate for) awareness and the meaningful understanding and expression of sentient qualities. In contrast to the statistical idea of ‘quality’ of information, ‘qualities’ are based in sentience - subjective awareness, perception, experience, meaning and emotional expression - as well as intelligence.Recently, IBM’s Watson (AI computer), Google’s Magenta Project, and Sony’s Flow Machines software have been promoted as ‘composing’ music, and as demonstrating musical ‘creativity’. They accomplished this artistic simile by compiling musical data and analyzing the data by given rules (logic, forms and patterns of musical expression), then producing variant combinations under algorithmic control. Maybe a better characterization of this AI process would have been a ‘generative variation’ of musical forms and patterns.While a remarkable technological advancement, this generative process of AI music is fundamentally different from a human creative process based in empirical understanding, and subjective meanings associated with musical expression. The human creative process in composition uses musical languages to express aspects and qualities of human sentience.Musical meaning and relevance have always been immersed in a context of time and place, of subjective and collective awareness, aspirations and concerns. In our era, human music and art, while seemingly under threat of replacement and obsolescence to AI, are in a position to clarify the distinction and capacities of human ‘sentience’ and artificial ‘intelligence’. And in this process, hopefully help us gain a deeper awareness of both, balanced in application, as synergetic rather than competing processes.audio tracks: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.comfacebook: facebook.com/dolomuseYou can find my TEDx talk on Polychromatic Music posted at youtube.com/watch?v=EfJbS5jPiOk
Polychromatic pitch-color awareness: intervals - 72 edo dolomuse 2016-10-17 | A pitch-color awareness exercise focused on interval-colors in relation to a static bass pitch. Single pitches, diads and simple cluster harmonies are used in effort to bring out the distinctive interval-color contrasts in a musical way (in context).Note an unending process of extension in our traditional musical vocabulary to express new ideas in modern music.'TRIAD' is used here as any combination of 3 notes; similar in concept to the 2 note diad. In this polychromatic context, 'Triad' becomes a more generalized concept. The prior definition was based on the assumption of ‘triadic’ (major/minor third) harmonic configurations and their inversions. Harmonic ‘triad’ was coined in 1612, defining triadic chords as stacked intervals of minor or major third.'POLYPHONY' is used in the modern context as the number of simultaneous notes sounded (counterpoint and/or harmony; i.e. polyphonic synthesizer). The historical definition (13th century) of polyphony described two or more simultaneous lines of melody (counterpoint); as opposed to a harmonic texture composed of one melody line and chords (homophony), or a melody without harmony (monophony; analogy: monophonic synthesizer). I also use polyphony to distinguish the word 'HARMONIC' between its two musical meanings: polyphony (harmony) vs. overtones (harmonics).In the same way, the ‘OCTAVE’ was generalized from its initial conception in a modal (7 note scale) system, where the octave repeated on the 8th note. Later, the octave was extended in use to a 12 note, chromatic system (where the 'octave' repeats on the 13th note).Western triadic 'TONAL' harmony originated around the 15th century (Renaissance). In our modern context, 'tonal' has been extended in its traditional musical use (i.e. polytonal), and Is also used to distinguish and define a different element: pitch gradation (i.e. microtonal). Schoenberg abandoned tonality in the exploration of chromatic serialism (atonality - lack of tonal center). He resisted the term 'atonal', feeling that all music was tonal. It appears that he was unintentionally equivocating the two distinct and different meanings of the word 'tonal'.Ay = 432 Hzauditory resolution: 72 notes per octavemore information: dolorescatherino.com
Polychromatic pitch-color awareness: Contrasts - 36, 24 and 12 edo dolomuse 2016-09-20 | A pitch-color awareness exercise using contrasting divisions of the octave to give a sense of pitch-space and color-association with pitch qualities. 36, 24 and 12 equal divisions of the octave (edo).Begin by passively noticing a distinctness and difference in pitch-colors. Visual association with the keyboard performance can help with initial pitch distinctions. Next, try to sing/play notes (i.e. root, third, fifth) and later melodic patterns (i.e. 1, 5, 4, 3, 2) with the progressions.Try this same practice with 72 edo at: youtube.com/watch?v=vQAV58cjiukA yellow = 432HzThe polychromatic system is a single notation system which can simplify and unify different microtonal notation schemes. Pitch-color definitions can be established at the beginning of a composition. This relative (non-absolute, pitch-color definitions) system is open, user-defined and flexible to any potential pitch-color resolution. more information: dolorescatherino.com
recurrence | polychromatic 72 dolomuse 2016-08-20 | recurrence - a sense of déjà vu when experiencing something radically new/unknown; a feeling that time is not only linear - past, present, future... but also recurs out of linear sequence, in a kind of temporal superposition.audio tracks: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.comfacebook: facebook.com/dolomuseMy TEDx talk on Polychromatic Music is posted at: youtube.com/watch?v=EfJbS5jPiOkA polychromatic composition performed on the Microzone u648. Auditory resolution: 72 notes per octavemore information at: dolorescatherino.comPolychromatic score available on website.
Polychromatic pitch-color awareness - 72 edo with Microzone u648 dolomuse 2016-07-26 | A polychromatic ear training exercise in learning to hear pitch-colors. 72 notes per octave. Each chromatic pitch is subdivided into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Ay = 432 HzFirst, just passively begin to notice a difference between the pitch-colors. As the pitches become more familiar, try singing along with each pitch-color chord progression. Be patient, any effort spent in refining pitch perception will open new dimensions of musical experience to listeners. Polychromatic ear training can also help prepare musicians for high pitch-resolution electronic instruments as they become available.more information at: dolorescatherino.commore ear training at: expandingmusicalconsciousness.com
Polychrome Impressions - I. beckoning | polychromatic 106 dolomuse 2016-03-11 | This is part one of Polychrome Impressions. This piece was originally published in Microtona, as part of a compilation of the music and insights of some inspiring microtonal composers. Several different approaches toward microtonality are presented and demonstrated in this publication. youtube.com/watch?v=BQ56S0D39v4&spfreload=10 Aural resolution: 106 notes per octaveScore and audio file are available for download on my website.more information: www.dolorescatherino.com
SlipStream | polychromatic 106 dolomuse 2016-01-25 | SlipStream - sometimes, unusual ideas can catalyze a creative 'momentum' and encourage a desire to explore new perspectives.A use of the limitation of 16 MIDI channels, vis-à-vis random note cancellation, for a musical effect of 'convergence' - a technique creating a sense of the emergence of a smaller group of notes within the larger whole. Notice the sound of a gradual merging/converging of notes into a subset of harmonies contained within the initial sound. Listen for the effect at 1:15.for more info on polychromatic music:youtube.com/results?search_query=tedxsacramentoyoutube.com/watch?v=ZMRUm_CoW-Iaudio tracks available at: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com
Spatial Harmonics | polychromatic 106 dolomuse 2015-11-24 | An intuitive, musical exploration of harmonic 'superspace'.Continuing musical explorations in a journey toward the outer limits of polychromatic harmonic interactions, while maintaining a quasi-tonal orientation for conventional musical reference, as a point of departure.This composition attempts to convey a sense that to the 3 spatial dimensions of length, width and depth, can be added a 4th dimension of auditory spacetime. That is, of duration and the evolving expression of multidimensional shapes and other qualia (immeasurable phenomena) accessible only through auditory perception.Auditory resolution: 106 pitches per octave (106ET)audio tracks available at: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.com
What is Polychromatic Music? - An introduction with comparison of modern microtonal instruments. dolomuse 2015-10-28 | A description of Polychromatic Music as a new genre and musical language by Dolores Catherino. An introductory comparison of 21st century electronic instruments (multidimensional polyphonic controllers) including the Tonal Plexus, Roli Seaboard, Continuum Fingerboard, and Microzone U-648, from a microtonal perspective.The Tonal Plexus and Microzone are multidimensional, polyphonically, at the level of the musical pitch language itself, expanding the chromatic language, exponentially, into a greater pitch-resolution (alphabet) dimension of polychromatic languages. Pitches can be played polyphonically in both the left/right chromatic dimension and the front/back polychromatic (color) dimension. The Microzone has polyphonic touch sensitivity and the Tonal Plexus does not, yet the Tonal Plexus layout allows a pitch programming of up to 211 pitches per octave while the Microzone U648 enables up to 72 pitches per octave. The Seaboard and Continuum (and LinnStrument, Eigenharp Alpha) are multidimensional, polyphonically, at the level of tactile expression - touch sensitivity in up/down, left/right, and, except the Seaboard, front/back dimensions. The LinnStrument is an amazing first-generation hybrid. Each pad-switch has multidimensional expressivity, and the instrument can be programmed polychromatically. However, one limitation of the design, from a polychromatic perspective, is that the pad-switch layout is isomorphic (same fingering ‘shape’/pattern for every key scale/chord type). While this design feature makes the instrument easier to learn, it becomes limiting with advancing levels of proficiency and pitch resolution. Other leading edge features of the LinnStrument include a rudimentary lighting display and the use of open-source software/firmware!Hopefully, future musical instruments will be able to bring together these polyphonic pitch-resolution and expressive tactile-resolution dimensions, as well as visual 'feedback' (light/color) dimensions into integrated designs. And, an option for multiple pitch regions per key-switch (i.e. hexagonal key option of 1; 3 - center, top, bottom; or 5 - center, top, bottom, right, left pitch regions). This would allow for more complex pitch layouts with fewer physical key-switches.Although conventional research estimates our hearing range to be within 20 Hz to 20 KHz, higher resolution audio recording formats/encoders and mic, amplifier, speaker technology, extending upper harmonics content beyond 20 KHz, may enable the perception of new interactive and integrated sonic complexities within our auditory range. These new qualities may be perceived as gestalt (sum greater than the parts), and dynamic (evolving, 'organic' color/shape changes over space and time) qualities of multidimensional sound. These intuitions are the result of musically exploring the implications and interactions of harmonics within complex sounds - 'observation' in an auditory sense. Our current understanding of hearing is fundamentally based on the research of auditory characteristics associated with the perception of sine wave ‘tones’; the sonic rendering of an ideal, smooth and periodic mathematical curve function without harmonics. We also have an interesting ambiguity in terminology with regard to the measurement of Hertz. In the field of digital audio, a 96 KHz sampling rate indicates 'samples per second' rather than the conventional meaning of 'vibrations per second'. There is an association in that more samples per second can potentially render better approximations of higher harmonic frequencies. But only if they have been recorded, encoded and transduced at high-resolution (above 20 KHz harmonics) from beginning to end of the signal path. This seems to be why hearing tests between digital audio conversion at 48 KHz and 96 KHz sampling rates has been inconclusive - in effect, the only difference is the presentation of twice as many samples per second of the same low-resolution (below 20 KHz harmonics) recording. And even if you were now able to achieve full frequency-bandwidth to 20 KHz throughout the sound recording, editing, encoding and playback process, this would only capture up to the 2nd harmonic (1st overtone) of a complex 10KHz sound; or the 4th harmonic of a 5 KHz sound, or the 8th harmonic of a 2.5 KHz sound, etc. One example of the audible implications of harmonic interactions occurs with the perception of simple combination tones. Yet, it also seems that combination tones are only surface-level examples of a more comprehensive process and phenomena.Another bottleneck in the full implementation of a polychromatic music system is our MIDI standard (a foundational communications protocol and digital interface for electronic instruments). MIDI remains a 'gold-standard' and, since its emergence in 1983, remains locked-in to 80's era technology limitations (i.e. 16 channels, 128 note numbers). More info at: newmusicusa.org/author/dolomuse
Polychrome Impressions - II. emergence | polychromatic 106 dolomuse 2015-10-02 | A polychromatic composition emphasizing pitch-color blends and multidimensional dynamic shapes. Notice the shifting, almost organic interactions happening within the pitch combinations and harmonics during the sustained chords....exploring a sense of vast unexplored auditory dimensions existing beneath the surface of conventional macropitch music, in the mixtures and contrasts of microtonal pitch-colors and shapes.Engaging an emerging awareness and development of new ways of hearing music; of hearing the world in a new way.aural resolution: 106 pitches per octavemore information: dolorescatherino.comPolychromatic score and audio files are available for download on website.
PolyTonal Resonance | polychromatic 106 dolomuse 2015-05-08 | PolyTonal - utilizing juxtaposed 'pitch color' harmony/key centers in a tonal (vs atonal) manner. Polytonality is conventionally seen either as superimposed triadic key centers (D/C), or as extended triadic harmonies within a single key center (C major13 #11). The 'key centers' of the chromatic paradigm are reconceptualized here as intervallic pitch colors blended into composite and dynamic (interactively changing over time) harmonic structures. That is, tonality, from the perspective of an additional dimension of microtonal pitch color (polychromatic) relationships.Resonance - harmonic pitch color combinations initiating an internal sense of physical vibratory/oscillatory movement, in addition to an auditory perception of moving, multidimensional sound 'shapes'.An exploration of combinations and contrasts of microtonal (chromatic paradigm: static, fixed, linear intervallic relationships) and polychromatic (nonlinear, dynamic, contextually relative intervallic relationships) musical languages. Notice the contrast between the polychromatic ('multidimensional', relative pitch color interrelationships) chord at 5:30 and the monochromatic ('two-dimensional', absolute intervallic/chordal relationships) chord progression at 5:38.Focus the listening on the dynamic, multidimensional aural shapes and physically sense/feel the resonant oscillations propagated from within the harmonic structures, projected outward and resonantly interacting. Listen beyond conventional tonal harmonic forms toward a conception of interacting pitch 'color blends' and the multidimensional, dynamic aural 'shapes'.A musical intention of exemplifying an awareness of an immense aesthetic and physical complexity within the phenomena of sound vibration.An expanded way of aesthetically listening, immersively integrated with physical (resonant, oscillatory) and emotional feeling/sensation.The final chord is intended not as a concluding resolution, but as an invitation to continue the journey...more information: dolorescatherino.comPolychromatic score and audio files are available on website. Aural resolution: 106 pitches per octave.
Heterodyne Horizon | polychromatic 106 dolomuse 2014-12-23 | This polychromatic composition is an exploration and demonstration of the musical use of interactive harmonics. It is an example of the gestalt principle in the sense that the whole (output harmonics) is greater than the sum of the parts (input notes and harmonics). A TEDx talk on Polychromatic Music is online at: youtube.com/watch?v=EfJbS5jPiOkHeterodyne - an existing concept that is a closest description (not explanation) of this musical phenomena of 'extra' harmonics created in the interaction of two or more notes.Horizon - in the sense of always evolving boundaries of awareness, exploration and understanding.Music theory describes harmonics 'vertically', in relation to a fundamental pitch. This composition demonstrates that 'horizontal' cross-interaction occurs, creating new harmonics and unique musical textures.Note in the middle of the composition (1:09), I am playing only 2 notes, one static and the other moving melodically. The thing to notice is that a (higher pitched) harmonic is following the melody line NOT in the same direction (high/low), as traditional harmonics do (because they are a subcomponent of the pitch), but in the OPPOSITE direction.Next, notice a second (lower pitched) interactive harmonic, which moves in the same direction as the melody (just as traditional 'primary' harmonics do). Try also, to hear additional subtle harmonics and a further harmonic blending as the melody becomes polyphonic.An intriguing question would be whether these interactive harmonics are measurable with an audio spectrum analyzer. More deeply, are these interactive harmonics created in a quantifiable dimension or are they a purely perceptual phenomenon; Qualia; technologically immeasurable? ...a world beyond current scientific conceptionAural resolution: 106 pitches per octave.Polychromatic score and audio files are available for download on my website.more information: dolorescatherino.comfacebook: facebook.com/dolomuse- Contextual information on known phenomena:HETERODYNE FREQUENCIES (electronics, communications engineering) and COMBINATION TONES (acoustics, psychophysics) are comprised of sum and difference tones.SUM TONES (f1+ f2) can create a frequency octave(s) above/greater than the lower frequency (f1): 220 Hz (A3) + 293.66 Hz (D3) = 513.66 Hz (C4)DIFFERENCE TONES (f2- f1) can create a frequency octave(s) below/less than the lower frequency (f1): 293.66 Hz (D3) - 220 Hz (A3) = 73.66 Hz (D1)INTERACTIVE HARMONICS (music), as demonstrated here, can create other frequency intervals which are neither sum nor difference tones.
Temporal Parallax | polychromatic 106 dolomuse 2014-01-03 | 'Temporal Parallax' ... expanding expressive dimensions in auditory spacetime.TEMPORAL in the sense of auditory phenomena and perception.PARALLAX - a difference in aural 'appearance' depending on the observer's perceptual position (perspective shift). My TEDx talk on Polychromatic Music is posted at youtube.com/watch?v=EfJbS5jPiOkA musical exploration attempting to present increasingly complex auditory multidimensionality to the receptive mind. An evolution in musical consciousness. A composition intended to facilitate an expanding perception of the dynamic interrelationships and interplay of micropitches and extended harmonics. All expressed as evolving aural 'shapes', 'textures' and complex emotional 'colors'.Metaphorically, listen for a 3-D to 2-D aural 'collapse' and distinct dimensional contrast between final resolving chords.An insight based on an analogy to the evolution of visual intelligence, within the context of painting conception/perception from flat 2-D representation to 3-D perspective. A long neglected development in aural intelligence within our visually dominant culture.aural resolution: 106 pitches per octave (106ET)audio tracks: dolorescatherino.bandcamp.commore information: dolorescatherino.com Polychromatic music score and audio file are available for download on website. Also, a reduced speed MP3 download is now available to enhance an initial awareness and perception of these expansive aural phenomena. Looking forward to a future possibility of capturing increasingly sophisticated polychromatic and extended harmonic (overtones) 'shapes/colors' as digital 'audio resolution' encoding/decoding technology improves in recording and audio compression formats. And also, to the possibility of rudimentary visual rendering of these dynamic multidimensional aspects of auditory perception.
VOCALISE fretless guitar (Rachmaninoff) dolomuse 2013-05-21 | A musical reflection on the pervasiveness of auto-intonation (autotune) technology in music production.An exploration of the world of emotional expression between the notes, in the nuance of melodic movement.... suggesting an unending artistic pursuit of musical expression to inspire the Romantic imagination.Intimating the development of an essential awareness of music as a metalanguage, with potentials to express dimensions of emotional experience and intuitive ideas beyond words and visual symbols.For me, this composition expresses a sense of 'longing' that transcends our current divided notion of time; a linear past, present, future. It's a musical expression of all three superimposed - a longing for what has been lost, what has yet to be, and what seems missing in the present moment. more information: dolorescatherino.comfacebook: facebook.com/dolomuseIn dedication to the memory of the brilliant Thereminist, Barbara Buchholz.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMDfP8pyfzI
Toward the Continuum - 2nd Iteration | polychromatic 106 dolomuse 2012-09-18 | Another example of a 21st century transition from MONOCHROMATIC music systems (combinations and contrasts of black and white with static, absolute, linear pitch and intervallic relationships) to a POLYCHROMATIC paradigm (encompassing higher-resolution, 'aural color' pitch gradation systems with dynamic, relative, nonlinear and/or linear pitch color interrelationships). Technological advances in musical hardware and software design have enabled vast development possibilities in the creation of new musical languages that cultivate our high levels of auditory discrimination (high-resolution hearing) and nonlinear characteristics of hearing (pitch/intervallic relativity, interactive harmonics, dynamic 'shape/texture' dimensionality);...in contrast to current music systems which compromise our highly sensitive auditory perceptual abilities within simple, low-resolution, linear musical languages.Aural resolution: 106 pitches per octave.A microtonal 'bridge' composition attempting to convey an overlapping aesthetic intersection between a progressive extreme of conventional concepts/practices and a conservative extreme of radical innovation. A use of conventional melodic/harmonic structures, within an expanded, 'higher resolution', microtonal context.Presenting an example of the transient outer reaches (and starting point) of the perception/conception of an immense musical universe; just beneath the surface of complacent convention... An increasingly comprehensive context of understanding 'Art' as an integral process in conscious evolution. Seeking via the strengths of auditory awareness, to present new experiences, challenges and innovations from which to expand awareness. New dimensions of understanding which have been perceptually inaccessible, except through aural experience.A process facilitated by the presentation of 'aesthetic perceptual challenges' by which to catalyze our latent capacities to experience, understand, integrate and develop Gestalt awareness.And an ongoing struggle with presenting intuitive ideas in discursive language; within which, any attempt toward increasing expressive clarity, paradoxically becomes more abstract and difficult to understand (obscured in complexity). An expressive process in such striking distinction to a wholistic intuitive sense of dynamic, complex structure, insights and ideas existing beyond linguistic words/symbols.... leading us back to understanding Artistic creations as expressive exemplars (hints, intimations) of elements/essences of experience that are linguistically inexpressible. More information: dolorescatherino.comPolychromatic musical score and audio files are available for download on website. Open invitation extended to creative editing, remix and modification.
An Approach to Tonal Plexus Microtonal/Polychromatic Technique by Dolores Catherino dolomuse 2010-12-21 | Demonstration of an alternative Tonal Plexus techniques, microtonal pitch layouts and the application of a new polychromatic pitch-color system. This 106 equal temperament pitch layout utilizes 2-D, vertically adjacent, discrete key regions which are a fifth apart. This is an alternative to the modified one dimensional (single plane; continuous region) keyboard tuning layouts currently available.This demonstrated layout enables more efficient and comprehensive technical utilization of the thumb, as well as a compact interval configuration for expanded chordal technique within the hand span.A left hand optimized tuning layout is also explained, utilizing redundantly tuned (vertically identical pitches) adjacent regions. This left-optimized layout enables a more efficient use of the thumb in left hand scale technique.More information: dolorescatherino.compolychromaticmusic.com
