Trickster Makes This World
from A Loose Grip on Reality by Brian Abbott
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Trickster Makes This World:
The title comes from a book by Lewis Hyde about the mythology of the Trickster – a complex figure that is both buffoon and world creator all at once. The piece purposely takes advantage of certain tuning anomalies in the harmonic series. Notes from different “systems” rub together throughout. It’s associated with the trickster figure because when studying the strangeness of the harmonic series, one could be led to believe that the Universe wasn’t meant to be perfect. Perhaps it was meant to clash and rub and make us uncomfortable, hopefully in an effort to show us a higher truth. Of course that’s only one way of looking at it… The piece is written in eleven limit Just Intonation.
The title comes from a book by Lewis Hyde about the mythology of the Trickster – a complex figure that is both buffoon and world creator all at once. The piece purposely takes advantage of certain tuning anomalies in the harmonic series. Notes from different “systems” rub together throughout. It’s associated with the trickster figure because when studying the strangeness of the harmonic series, one could be led to believe that the Universe wasn’t meant to be perfect. Perhaps it was meant to clash and rub and make us uncomfortable, hopefully in an effort to show us a higher truth. Of course that’s only one way of looking at it… The piece is written in eleven limit Just Intonation.
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from A Loose Grip on Reality,
released February 1, 2023
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