Re: Elliot sharp's --> mathematic processes cnanging your hearing

["Michael C. Gorman" <tcwriter@secondsufis.com>]

Doug, check out this guys enneagram study of music. Sound familiar?
http://www.awakenings.com/properties/

So these and Doug's are examples of geometric mathematical processes. And 
of
course the circle of fourths / fifths. Jim and I are also working on 
similar
processes for transforming from mode to mode (for a given root note) that
follows the cycle of fourths or fifths, in a way very similar to the way
this cycle relates to key changes  For me, the geometry helps me to see
relations that I might not hear otherwise.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Baldwin" <coyotelk@optonline.net>
To: "Per Boysen" <per@boysen.se>; <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: Elliot sharp's --> mathematic processes cnanging your hearing


> Per Boysen wrote:
> > One thing he said was very interesting IMO: "It changes the way you 
>hear
> > music when you start working with mathematic processes". Can someone on
> > this list tell about similar experiences?
>
> Briefly: Draw the chromatic scale out like a twelve-pointed circle - a
> dodecahedron - and note the locations of various chords and scales on 
>this
> circle. This simple geometric view of intervals will quickly reveal
numerous
> patterns in the music you care to chart in this way, and in the
construction
> of music generally. Now I often "hear" these shapes and associate the
shapes
> with certain sounds. I am amazed that this simple process is not used in
> music education.
> Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
> coyotelk@optonline.net
>