Instruments of Denny Genovese
Instruments of Jeff Bunting
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Intonation is a means of tuning musical intervals in a way that
allows for precise relationships between tones.
This allows music to be sung or played
with an enhanced repertoire of sounds and associated feelings.
It is defined by mathematical
relationships between pitches, measured by ratios of frequencies. |
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The SEJIC was the first activity of the World Harmony Project.
It's mission was to enhance the development of
musical expression, by means of the implementation of Just Intonation,
Polyrhythmic structures, and Timbral Tonality.
It began with a Music Studio, directed by and
containing the instruments
of WHP founder, Denny Genovese.
These instruments were specially designed to be
played in the Extended Just Intonation scale of 65 pitches per frequency
duple (octave), developed by Denny Genovese while writing his New College
Thesis, The natural Harmonic Series as a practical approach to Just
Intonation .
The first part of the strategy was to improvise
with the new sounds available to learn their musical properties, then to
compose music using these sounds, according to the properties discovered.
The second stage was to teach an ensemble of
musicians to play the new compositions with the new instruments in the new
tuning.
The third stage was to produce performances of
the ensemble, test for audience response, refine the music and performance
according to the feedback, and finally to record the music and make it
available to interested listeners.
The name of the SEJIC performing group was
Denny Genovese's Exotic
Music Ensemble.
Four performances per year were
co-sponsored by the City of Gainesville, Florida's Dept. of Cultural
Affairs, in The Historic Thomas Center from 1992 to 1998.
The Album, produced on cassette in
1994 and on CD in 1998 is called New Music - Ancient Principles.
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The SEJIC housed an Electronic
Music studio, as well. It included historic analog instruments and tape
recorders, as well as computer based digital composition, synthesis and
recording facilities.
Computers and software for
producing music in Just Intonation were provided on the PC, Mac, Amiga,
Atari-ST, Apple-II, Comadore-64 and TI-99 platforms.
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In addition to the EME, the SEJIC
studio was made available to other musicians and composers who wished to
learn about or utilize Just Intonation.
Classes, Seminars, private Lessons
and Residencies were conducted there as well.
Denny Genovese with Barbara Hero and Robert Faulkrod at the SEJIC
studio in 1997
The SEJIC served as the focal
point of what evolved into the 1st World
Harmony Center.
An additional set of instruments
for Just Intonation were developed at the SEJIC by Jeff
Bunting during his residency in 1996.
An extensive Music Library and
archive of scores and recordings of music in Just Intonation was
maintained at the studio.
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The SEJIC was directed by Denny
Genovese from 1992 until 1998.
It was directed by Pat Pagano from
1998 to 2003.
L. to R.: Thierry Mingione, Darren Burgess, Pat Pagano, Bob Benchic
It was inactive from 2003 until
2007.
In 2007 it was revived under the
directorship of Joshua Lederman.
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SEJIC advisor, Peter Coraggio demonstrates the Arp 2500 Analog
Synthesizer to JI patriarch, Harry Partch in 1974. This instrument was
donated to the SEJIC by Don Slepian in 1992.
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If you want to refret your
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You can either assemble the magnetic fretboards yourself, or have
the luthier do it for you.
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World harmony Project is
dedicated to the evolution of Music.
In particular, we support and assist composers, musicians,
Instrument Builders and Software Designers
in the use of Just Intonation.
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Just Intonation is the beautiful, natural tuning system originally
defined by the ancient philosopher and scientist, Pythagoras.
It had been used since
ancient times, but fell out of use in the last two centuries
because of the limitations of early keyboard instruments.
With modern technology, these limitations no longer exist,
especially with electronic instruments and software.
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Listening
to music in Just Intonation sharpens awareness of relationships in
Nature and Society, to a higher degree than music in the more
common 12 tone equal tempered scale.
The
principles of Just Intonation have been expanded in recent times,
to acomodate the more complex lives of Information Age listeners.
more
information on Just Intonation
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