Seamus Cater
A History of Musical Pitch
LabelAnother TimbreGenreContemporary Composition
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This album contains three works by Seamus Cater, including his creative response to the work of Alexander John Ellis (1814-1890), who presented a paper 'The History of Musical Pitch' to the Royal Society in 1880. Ellis was a mathematician, collector, philologist and musical enthusiast, who spent a lot of time measuring the exact frequencies of contemporary and ancient musical instruments, and so is remembered as one of the founders of comparative musicology. Two of the pieces on the disc are 're-soundings' of Ellis's research, and a tribute to his enthusiasm for alternative tuning systems (he performed at the Royal Society with his own concertinas that used experimental tuning systems).
Release notes
Checking (2021) Tree Space: the trees they do grow high (2019) A History of Musical Pitch (2020) Recorded and mixed in Amsterdam by [...], at Pest House and Splendor, between spring 2020 and summer 2022. E-bowed guitar recorded by [...]. Cover painting: Epping Forest by [...]
| 1 | Checking | 13:47 | |
| 2 | Tree Space: The Trees They Do Grow High | 13:00 | |
| 3 | A History Of Musical Pitch | 36:59 |
- Seamus Cater
- Composed By, Liner Notes [English], Recorded By, Mixed By
- Tristram James Ellis
- Painting [Cover Painting By]
- Fredrik Rasten
- Recorded By [E-bowed Guitar Recorded By]
