Land urchin
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Land Urchin is a piece for string band in 11-limit just intonation, written by [[JacobBarton]] during [[Xenharmonic Praxis Summer Camp]] 2011. =Back story= I've been interested in old-time string band music since 2008, when I attended an open jam & tune-learning session with the folks at [[http://c-4a.org/|Community Center for the Arts]]. I was interested in the technical challenge of playing fiddle tunes on the udderbot, and I liked how it seemed to blend well with the violin-banjo-bass-mandolin sound world. I also liked the orientation less towards performance and more towards open jams, teaching each other tunes, a musical community that cared for itself. I got excited about the prospect of attending this [[http://www.wvculture.org/stringband/|huge string band festival]] that was only 90 minutes away from our camp in West Virginia, in order to enter the Neo-traditional string band contest. We didn't quite get a competition entry together, but Michael Garman penned a boisterous bluegrass piece in quartertones called "Twang", and I managed to write this tune. It's informed a lot by the common-tone JI modulations we were teaching in the camp. =Score= Various melodic tweaks are still being discussed, but we're going to let performance practice have its way with it from here on out. PDF of "definitive version" of the song: [[file:barton - land urchin.pdf]]. =Lyrics= Ryan wrote some lyrics, but we're not sure they're the right ones. Taking submissions. =Recordings= Studio mockup and rough live recording of 1st draft: [[media type="file" key="landurchin_just2.mp3"]] [[media type="youtube" key="Tuj9R_gC0j8?version=3" height="345" width="560"]]
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I've been interested in old-time string band music since 2008, when I attended an open jam & tune-learning session with the folks at <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://c-4a.org/" rel="nofollow">Community Center for the Arts</a>. I was interested in the technical challenge of playing fiddle tunes on the udderbot, and I liked how it seemed to blend well with the violin-banjo-bass-mandolin sound world. I also liked the orientation less towards performance and more towards open jams, teaching each other tunes, a musical community that cared for itself.<br />
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I got excited about the prospect of attending this <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.wvculture.org/stringband/" rel="nofollow">huge string band festival</a> that was only 90 minutes away from our camp in West Virginia, in order to enter the Neo-traditional string band contest. We didn't quite get a competition entry together, but Michael Garman penned a boisterous bluegrass piece in quartertones called "Twang", and I managed to write this tune. It's informed a lot by the common-tone JI modulations we were teaching in the camp.<br />
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Ryan wrote some lyrics, but we're not sure they're the right ones. Taking submissions.<br />
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Studio mockup and rough live recording of 1st draft:<br />
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