Jeff Harrington
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New Music - Celestograph I
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 11:14 AM
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I've built my first new electronic music snog in 5 years, Celestograph I last week. It uses the Wendy Carlos harmonic series tuning and is a celestially inspired processional. The title comes from a photographic series by August Strindberg in which he made photographs directly exposed to the night sky, without a lens. He believed the lens warped the direct expression of the stars. Just getting my feet wet for a new album to be called Celestographs. I used my old TG77 piped into my A5000 for this piece.
Celestograph I
Here's an article about his work The Celestographs of August Strindberg
And on a way back note...  here's a video I YouTubed last week that I made in 1988 on my Amiga 1000 with algorithmically generated ambient music..
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Fourier
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I think it captures the subject matter perfectly. What is the "Wendy Carlos harmonic series tuning"?
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Jeff Harrington
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RE: New Music - Celestograph I
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 7:45 AM
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Hey Fourier! It's a tuning where every note is as close as possible, a harmonic of C. I transpose it withing my synthesizer.
Where in Florida are you? We recently moved to Sanibel! 
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Fourier
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RE: New Music - Celestograph I
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 8:40 PM
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Lucky you! That's a nice place. We're up in Gainesville.
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S.A. Fred
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RE: New Music - Celestograph I
Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM
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Interesting track and interesting subject/ concept behind it.
The sounds have a nice life cycle, in the way they slowly attack, modulate, and evolve into that wobbly long decay, and equally nice as they layer and build these complex harmonic notes/ chords/ whatever
Got a harshness to them, sort of FM in feeling (thats the harmonic thing going on), harsh...but soft. Very Brian Eno 
I'm reminded of the "Shutov Assembly" in the timbre of the sounds...but the concept is very "Neroli", check them out if you don't know them, both great albums! Meditative.
Interesting, like to hear the other ones.
Cheers,
Pete
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Jeff Harrington
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RE: New Music - Celestograph I
Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 2:58 PM
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Thanks Pete! I'll have to get to work to make the other ones audible...  it's more like a concept album at this point and I've only done one track. I have no idea what I'll do if the order I make them isn't a good order. The 2nd one is underway, textures and all, but I need to get to work on the composition. Had too much beer at lunch to do anything now with it...
I'll check off Shutov Assembly... thanks!!
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LoveCraft's Adjectives
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RE: New Music - Celestograph I
Monday, May 26, 2008 at 10:04 AM
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" . . . quite simply placing his photographic plates on a window sill or perhaps directly on the ground (sometimes, he tells us, already lying in the developing bath) and letting them be exposed to the starry sky."
Wow. I've never heard of such a thing. Your track is very relaxing . . . "the way they slowly attack, modulate, and evolve" . . . yup
That 20 year old YouTube is pretty cool too. I love YouTube. Entertainment in bite sized chunks
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Jeff Harrington
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RE: New Music - Celestograph I
Monday, May 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM
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Hey Lovecraft's A!
Thanks for the kind comments... of course the Strindberg process didn't work like he thought... it just made star-like patterns, which is cool in itself.
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