Michael Harrison, Revelation - 1h 14m 19s

Tracks & Durations

1. Revealing the Tones & Dyads	8:16
2. Night Vigil	3:26
3. Revealing the Commas	4:29
4. Mystic Lyre (them, tone cloud)	10:07
5. Homage to La Monte	11:04
6. Homage to La Monte (tone cloud)	9:16
7. Night Vigil II	3:43
8. Carillon (theme, tone cloud)	6:32
9. The Spaceship	4:26
10. The Spaceship (tone cloud)	12:52

Note: The information about this album is acquired from the publicly available resources and we are not responsible for their accuracy.

Review

Revelation, recorded live at Lincoln Center, is a sonic journey of shimmering and pulsating effects weaving through delicate lyrical passages as well as massive walls of harmonic resonance. This magnum opus is a modern approach to the ancient principles of pure tuning or “just intonation.” For over 20 years Harrison's work with the “harmonically tuned” piano has developed the universal concepts espoused by Pythagoras and other Greek philosophers and mathematicians who discovered that musical concords arise from simple mathematical relationships based on whole numbers. Plato realized that these musical proportions not only relate to a universal order and the balance of the celestial spheres, but also reflect the harmony within man's soul. This philosophy is referred to as the “music of the spheres.” Plato taught that music could thus “correct any discord which may have arisen in the courses of the soul.”

Just intonation and natural tunings are found in the music of ancient Greece, India, Persia, China, and Japan, as well as in the "a cappella" music of the West, including Gregorian chant and renaissance polyphony. By contrast, equal temperament, the standard tuning for pianos, compromises these natural musical proportions in order to facilitate chord changes and shifts in key.

Revelation introduces for the first time in modern tuning the extensive use of simultaneously sounding “commas,” the microtonal intervals between two slightly different versions of the same note. When these precisely tuned minute intervals sound together they produce never-before-heard combinations of modes, harmonies, and acoustical phenomenon. These include Harrison's resonant “tone clouds” in which the overtones are so audible that they create the illusion of voices and various instruments resonating from the piano. According to Harrison, “The Revelation tuning has so many beautiful and exotic sounds latent within it; I felt like an explorer in unknown and distant harmonic regions.”

Please note: we do not provide any Michael Harrison music downloads, have no any mp3 music including music samples and music ringtones, and can not assist you where to buy music CDs and used CDs. You can search for it on music sites all over the Internet or visit one of our advertisers. We appreciate any ideas and comments about this experimental music database.