WARREN BURT - Journal

Here's a video made for a concert presentation Oct 13, 2017 at the Glitterbox Theater in Pittsburgh, PA, to celebrate the launching of the new CD "MM76 Amusical Music, Atheatrical Theatre," produced by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE. The piece involves me playing live on 3 iOS devices, all with the same patch on them: ChordPolyPad playing arpeggiated hexachords, MF Randomizer scrambling the output of the ChordPolyPad, and the piano sounds are made by the UVI Ravenscroft 275 piano app. The pianos on the three iOS devices are each detuned by 1/3 of a semitone, making a total tuning for the piece of 36 tones per octave equal temperament. Many many thanks to tENT for organizing the CD, and then, organizing the launch, and asking me to be part of it! And of course, many many thanks to Catherine Schieve for yet more video work documenting things!

UPDATE November 12: I just got an email from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, that he has now made and posted on-line, 3 videos of the October 13 performance. Here's what he wrote:

"I made 3 movies of the MM 76 CD RELEASE event at the Glitter Box Theater & these are all online now:

"MM 76 RELEASE" (1:28:38): https://youtu.be/XuoZopfS4CQ

"MM 76 RELEASE (medium rare)" (39:33): https://archive.org/details/MM76RELEASEmediumRare

"MM 76 RELEASE (well done)" (12:24): https://vimeo.com/241244343

You'll note that each version gets progressively shorter so there're options depending upon your attention span."

The videos each feature performances on the night from Noah Rechtenwald, myself, Ben Opie, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (with Meg Graham, vocals); How Things Are Made and Michael Boyd. The (well done) 12:24 version gives you a very good and quick overview of what looks like was a very fun event. Enjoy.