RE: Even More out of tune

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: RE: Even More out of tune

>>i feel that diatonic music is limited by the integer-multiple overtone
series. there are only so many ways to string 7 (or 12, if you're into
tone rows and that sort of thing) notes together, and every time i try
to write a melody, i'm reminded of that.

i personally am not interested in using non-diatonic-based tunings in
my music, because i don't feel that an appropriate enough combination
of interface, instrument, and price point exists yet to make me
interested in it. i'm not a guitarist, i'm a keyboardist. when i think
about Wendy's Alpha scale it makes my head spin.<<

I've tried experimenting with different scales- the emu modules are particularly well-equipped for this kind of adventure- but I can't get past the fact that, to me anyway, it just sounds horrible.

I don't play music because I like the maths, I play music because I like the noise. for me, there are twelve notes and you can only use certain combinations of them together at one time. usually about seven of the twelve.

somethimes the same notes sound a bit different, e.g. if you have a guitar and a trumpet playing together. even single notes that are in tune have all these clashing harmonics that make it sound out of tune. I know the physics, but I'm trying to keep this simple.

anyway, that's about as much dissonance as I can tolerate unless it's actually one's intention to make an awful noise, like with a ring modulator or a dx7, say.....

I'll get me coat again.

duncan.

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