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The Bohlen-Pierce Scale
Bohlen-Pierce Instruments
9-string touch-stick / guitar
Chimes
Electric guitar
Guitar
Heinz Bohlen’s Electronic Organ
Kalimba
Metallophone
Pan flute
Quintet.net
Radio Baton
Recorder
Sonome
Soprano clarinet
Stredici
Tenor clarinet
Tritavophone
Lectures & Presentations
Barlow: On the Harmonic Rationalization of Pitch Intervals of Known Size
Bohlen: An early document on a novel scale
Boulanger: Strategies and Solutions
Erlich: Commas, Temperaments, and Scales, with particular attention to the ‘BP diatonic’
Foster: Algebraic Aspects of the Bohlen-Pierce Scale
Fox: The design and construction of Bohlen-Pierce clarinets and other wind instruments
Grolimund: A New Instrument – a New Scale
Hajdu: Starting Over – Chances Afforded by a New Scale
Harrop: Dissonance and the Bohlen-Pierce Clarinet
Kretz: HOQUETUS II
Lieberman: the SPACE between NOTES
Loui: From Sounds to Music: Learning the Bohlen-Pierce Scale
Mathews: The Early History from 1982 to 1988 of John Pierce’s evolution of his version of the Bohlen-Pierce scale.
Polansky: A Mathematical Model for Optimal Tuning Systems
Roads: On Purity
Stahnke: The Bohlen-Pierce Scale in the Context of Just Intonation
Sword: Lecture and Demonstration on the Bohlen-Pierce Scale and Tuning systems
Walker: Continuing Research on Perception and Performance of the Bohlen-Pierce Scale
Wessel: Designing and Performing Spectra Compatible with the Bohlen-Pierce Scale
Young: Cross-Current
Participants
Heinz Bohlen
John Pierce
Amy Advocat
Klarenz Barlow
Samantha Bennett
James Bergin
Owen Bloomfield
Louis Cohen
Richard Boulanger
Stephen Davidson
Anthony De Ritis
Emily Doolittle
Paul Erlich
Neal Evans
Roger Feria
Kevin Foster
Stephen Fox
Marji Gere
Arturo Raffaele Grolimund
Georg Hajdu
Hubert Ho
Todd Harrop
Ákos Hoffmann
Tilly Kooyman
Johannes Kretz
David Lieberman
Psyche Loui
John Mallia
Max Mathews
Katarina Miljkovic
Stratis Minakakis
Nora-Louise Müller
Jascha Narveson
Shane Neill
Yvonne Ng
Larry Polansky
Reinhard Reitzenstein
Curtis Roads
Marion Samuel-Stevens
Rick Sacks
Dan Sedgwick
Manfred Stahnke
Ron Sword
Elaine Walker
Julia Werntz
David Wessel
Gayle Young
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Concerts
Compositions
Barlow: Pinball Play
Basica: If some kind of intelligent life form…
Bergin: Liebesleid
Bloomfield: When the Ravens Descend
Borges: Ilustre Desconhecido
Boulanger: I Know of No Geometry
Cohen: Homage to Cage 2
De Ritis: Five Moods
Doolittle: Body of Wood
Douglas: Spectrum of the Last Eclipse
Feria: Re: Stinky Tofu
ffitch: Universal Algebra
Grolimund: Folk Tune Improvisation
Hajdu: Beyond the Horizon
Hamel: Die Umkehrung der Mitte
Hannan: No brighter sun : no darker night
Harrop: Calypso
Joaquin: Fragments
Kim: Color Me Grey
Köszeghy: UTOPIE XVII (chochma)
Kretz: Hoquetus II
Lemke: Pas de deux
Lukens: Permutations
Mallia: The Larches
Matsumiya: The Melting Sun
Miljkovic: For Amy
Minakakis: Anacharsis I
Moser-Booth: A Place Between Dark and Light
Narveson: Wire
NEU’s Ensemble: Half The Plate
Pierce/Mathews: Sea Songs Phasered
Quiñones: BigPot
Roads: Purity
Schwenk: Night Hawks
Shechter: BP Piscium Star Fragments
Stahnke: Die Vogelmenschen von St. Kilda
Walker: Songs
Waters: Little Duet
Werntz: Imperfections
Wessel: BP Compatible Spectra
Yi: Reminiscences
Young/Reitzenstein: Cross-Current
Partners
Practical Info
Rehearsal Schedule
Registration
Contact
The Bohlen-Pierce Symposium
First symposium on the Bohlen-Pierce scale, Boston, March 7 – 9, 2010
02.26.2010
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