This is an orchestral piece composed in 13 note subset of 31 notes per octave called “Orwell”. The purpose of this piece was to study polyphonic voice leading in a microtonal context. It was realized via Sonar 8.5 and Garritan Personal Orchestra version 4.0 (aria) which accepts scala files directly. Here is a partial scoredatura in pdf.

There are flaws – for one the humanization isn’t as picky as it could be but as usual I have limited time so the result is more or less a sketch. This is a revised version of one released to the alternate tuning list back in the summer of 2010.

audio only

http://micro.soonlabel.com/orwell/daily20100721-gpo-owellian-cameras.mp3

Download a high quality version of the video here:

http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/video/orwellian.wmv

The scala file for the tuning used follows:

! 13-31a.scl
!
31-tET Orwell[13]
13
!
38.70968
154.83871
270.96774
309.67742
425.80645
541.93548
580.64516
696.77419
812.90323
851.61290
967.74194
1083.87097
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