Neil Thornock, the composer and performer, spent many of his formative years composing in a carillon belfry, influencing the bell-like sounds in his work.
Composer Biography
Neil Thornock has a lifelong interest in microtonality and has composed extensively for just intonation piano and other instruments.
Album & Artwork
The images used in the album design are by Rockwell Kent, taken from his illustrations for the 1930 edition of Moby Dick.
Compositional Technique
The pieces on this album are composed using a tuning consisting of all thirty-one prime harmonics from 2 to 127, over a slightly flat C fundamental.
Album & Artwork
The album title, "Another and Still Stranger World," is inspired by a passage from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, which describes a hidden world beneath the ocean's surface.
Compositional Technique
In the tuning used for this album, no two octaves are tuned the same, leading to various tuning effects like isoharmony and acoustic roughness.
Interpretation
Neil Thornock, the performer, had his vintage Sohmer baby grand piano retuned to an extended just intonation scheme for this album.
