JOSE HALES-GARCIA
2025 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Born in New York City in the 1950s and raised in Los Angeles, Euro-Afro-Caribbean Jose Hales-Garcia had a keen ear for the world, pop, television and movie music he had been hearing since birth. Drawn to all forms of artistic expression, Jose found the process of working in visual mediums too slow to express his immediate emotional needs. Music was more to his liking.
Jose studied with Erv Wilson and co-founded the microtonal rock band Cipher. Through Erv and John Chalmers, Jose discovered he enjoyed math and computer programming. In 1990, Jose left the music world to do "normal" things, but during his musical hiatus, Jose always worked quietly on music. Now, like a phoenix, Jose returns to the music world with microtonal compositions to share. He hopes to transmit the emotional depths that stir him and music that reminds us that we are all connected.
TUOLUMNE
I want to submit this piece as my first for the residency collection. I was working on a number of other pieces for the residency collection, when this one butted in ahead of them.
I call it Tuolumne, because it sounds cool, like an early spring in Yosemite. It's one performance of an infinite possible variety, using Logic's Live Loops. I'm using a linear 17-tone scale generated by 26/23. I like the sonorities of the linear better than the tempered version. The piece is not attempting to be xen. I just enjoy hearing the bright second (212.25 cents) and fifth (710.28 cents) and a nostalgic feeling it gives me.
! Linear scale, generator: 26/23, error: 23.46 cents
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Linear scale, generator: 26/23, error: 23.46 cents; Generated by mTonal 1.0.0, Dec 11, 2022
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154457888/148035889
23857239165420544/21914624432020321
26/23
4015905088/3404825447
620288218300934144/504036361936467383
676/529
104413532288/78310985281
16127493675824287744/11592836324538749809
17576/12167
2714751839488/1801152661463
419314835571431481344/266635235464391245607
456976/279841
70583547826688/41426511213649
10902185724857218514944/6132610415680998648961
11881376/6436343
1835172243493888/952809757913927
2/1
