Hail, Anton!

(This post is gonna be a hodge-podge. Begging forgiveness in
advance. You're not the only one with verbal diarrhea, Morbs.)

I read your post and was remembering a link someone had posted to a
microtonal site in the last year or so. I waited for them to help
you. Nothing.

It seems you were the one in the first place!

Your post is awesome! I thirst for knowledge. Maybe the right word
is lust.
I've read John Backus' book THE ACOUSTICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393090965/
qid=1131198835/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-8390523-9984722
v=glance&s=books&n=507846
and found it fascinating. (If you haven't read it, you will too!)
Now I find I must absorb Sethares' book!

Knowing you may also have trod in these other footsteps as well, may
I recommend
Wendy Carlos' CD's, BEAUTY IN THE BEAST and TALES OF HEAVEN & HELL.
She uses microtonal to advantage.

I suppose it's obvious to you and everyone else that merely
attenuating keyboard voltage will give you octaves of any number of
steps you wish. I recall reading somewhere that there are two other
mathematical divisions of an octave that create consonance -
something like 29 and 36 steps. Do you know what those actual
divisions may be Thanking in advance.

If you've been around a while - and I think you have - you may recall
my supplication for a selective quantizer. Without going into
detail, I'll just attach the jpg in the middle of this post.


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Permit me to say that your quantizer suggestion goes even further and
would make an exciting module. I don't know many Roger would sell -
we'd probably have to get a second mortgage on our first-born to buy
one.

Let me wrap this up with a bizarre, but true tale.
I poked deeply into Sethares' site and found a sound bite for Chapter
8 A BELL, A ROCK, A CRYSTAL: DUET FOR MORPHINE AND CYMBAL.

Let me set the stage. I understand consonance and dissonance. I
knew what to expect.
My home stereo connection is kaput. I had to play it on my computer
with the volume cranked up. I have a head cold. My hearing is
f*cked up. Everything sounds like it is resonating in a pipe the
wrong size.

So I started the bite. Then our home phone started to ring with its
chintzy beeping of Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King.

All I can say is, Lay off the cattle prod, Morby!

sfrules



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