... That "everyone's first instinct was to run all over the keyboard playing things in every key" seems a wild assertion, strongly contradicting centuries of...
... By "objective", I don't mean subject-independent, I just mean "based on some observable/measurable property". Which includes all the things you just...
... Yes. I have used expressions such as "as objective as something can be in music" before, for it is a "no shit, Sherlock" observation that absolutely...
... Yeah, but you know what I'm getting at here. It's the same concept of "variations on the same fundamental thing" vs "different fundamental things" again....
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:51 AM, cityoftheasleep <igliashon@...> ... OK, I guess so. I like "phenomenal" or "psychoacoustic" better, but OK. ... No,...
... I couldn't disagree more. Who is this "average" western listener? Highly trained musicians are the only people I know who differentiate between minor...
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ryan Avella <domeofatonement@...> ... Yes, this is also true. I'll have to think hard about how to qualify what I'm...
I like the way Magic twists these categories. 25:24 approximates to the interval class I call a 'semitoe'. 16:15 divides into two equal semitoes which makes...
... Yup, that's handy. I didn't realize magic had that property. So 245/243-tempering makes it so that 9/8 -> 7/6 -> 6/5 are separated by the same chroma, and...
The great adventure of alternative temperaments is that with enough exposure you'll come to hear the categories differently. It won't happen immediately but...
... I claim that the two things I mentioned can form a concrete approach to ear training for one to hear the categories differently. Or at least some aspects....
... Yes, and in your examples you can see that the increasing use of harmonic movement by thirds/sixths during the celebrated "collapse of the tonal system"...
... Something I've noticed over the years as that there is a great deal said about "modulation" and temperaments, but little (nothing that I can recall,...
I didn't describe that consideration as random because I already said it all works with Magic. What I described as random was choosing the chords with on...
... Obviously we are not understanding each other, because the reason I stated was, in short, distinguishing 3/2*7/6 from 3/2*6/5. Tempering 36/35 and 25/24 to...
Ah- I remember which chord progression. You missed the point- it is not the temperament which I found wanting! Magic the temperament would be perfect for the...
Calling all rational structures "JI", for one, as I've said a few times before. That would be "so what" were it not for the fact that doing so perpetuates the...
There is buttloads of it in my 41-edo work, but I couldn't find a simple and plain enough example of using the equation of 36/35 and 25/24 to differentiate...
If you're using runs of 36:35 or 25:24 then yes you'll tend towards Magic temperament. But you didn't say that before so I didn't comment on it. You'll also...
Guess the tuning... http://soundcloud.com/TallKite/sets/Nightfall Music to read a book to. Music to stretch to. Music to talk on the phone to. Music to slow...
... I see by the dates on my Soundcloud page that it must be about nine months (!) since I mentioned on this list tempering 36/35 and 25/24 to one step for...
