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Tag Archives: microtonal
Easley We Roll Along
If Wikipedia is to be believed, Easley Blackwood Jr. (born 1933) is still alive. We should all be so lucky! Forty years ago I interviewed him for an article in Keyboard. He was so articulate that the interview ended up … Continue reading
Floater
You may not enjoy this type of thing, but I find it oddly relaxing. This is a fairly simple patch in VCV Rack. Three FM-type sine oscillators are playing a convoluted pattern in a subset of 19-note equal temperament. You’ll … Continue reading
Gibberish
Music has been described as a universal language. This is a nice way of saying that people all over the world play music. But as a practical matter, every culture develops its own music. When a European or American listener, … Continue reading
Tune Me Up
For microtonality freaks only — I gathered the information below for an article in Electronic Musician. It’s still available on their website, or was the last time I looked. But just to spread it around a little, I thought I’d … Continue reading
The Microtone Zone
Having nothing better to do tonight, I searched YouTube for “microtonal.” I had never heard anything in 26-tone or 7-tone equal temperament, so I learned something. They’re both wildly exotic temperaments, and that seems to be part of the point … Continue reading
Notes on 53ET
Had a quick look this afternoon at 53-note-per-octave equal temperament. This is reputed to be a very good-sounding scale, and it is. But its behavior is a little peculiar. For those who arrived late, the octave-based equal temperaments that have … Continue reading
The Theory of 31
The theory of harmony in 12-note equal temperament is pretty interesting, and not terribly complicated. (I’ve written a book about it, in fact — Chords & Harmony is available from Hal Leonard Publishing.) Being able to talk about how chords … Continue reading
More About Tunings
Thanks to the improved workflow in QuteCsound, it’s getting easier to experiment with alternate tuning systems. Also, I’ve learned a couple of tricks for organizing Csound scores. While enjoying the pure sounds of just intonation, I’ve been realizing that I … Continue reading
Fun with Microtuning
The latest version of u-he Zebra2 (2.3) adds an on/off switch for “voice drift.” This is great news for anyone who cares about alternate tunings. In earlier versions of Zebra, there was a small hard-wired random pitch variation from note … Continue reading
Jim Aikin's Oblong Blob 