Re: Margo's midi clips

Hi Margo,

This is just to bring your post to everyone's attention if anyone has missed it:

/tuning/topicId_24448.html#24448

Some pretty wild clips there!

> A very special idiom in the e-based tuning features the supraminor
> sixth at around 836.86 cents, quite close to the ratio of the Golden
> Section, or Phi, at ~1.61803398874989484820459, or ~833.09 cents.

> More generally, this type of "Phi-sixth" is available in a variety of
> neo-Gothic tunings including a "17-flavor" set of supraminor/submajor
> thirds and sixths[17], so that most of what follows could apply to any
> of these tunings, allowing for fine shadings of interval sizes and
> colors.

> In a neo-Gothic setting, Phi-sixths when presented in certain
> "floating" contexts may have a quality at once of complexity and of
> relative blend, with the overall impression one of a certain "nebulous
> concord." They are very different than the primary concords, stable
> fifths and fourths, and yet do not necessarily have any strong sense
> of directed tension or motion. One might describe them as having a
> pleasantly foggy or almost Debussyan quality, inviting a kind of
> "neo-Gothic Impressionism."[18]

> Accordingly, an idiom known as "Fibonacci drift"[19] features two
> upper voices moving in fourths above a sustained lowest note,
> "drifting" around a sonority with a supraminor or Phi-sixth plus a
> supraminor third, in the e-based tuning a rounded 0-341-837 cents.
> Here is an example of Fibonacci drift, illustrating one kind of
> transitional progression for returning to a "usual" neo-Gothic style,
> with the rhythm possibly best expressed as a mixture of 3/4 and 2/4:

> (3/4) (2/4)
> 1 2 + 3 + | 1 + 2 + | 1 2 | 1 2 ||
> F#4 G4 F#4 F4 F#4 G4 F#4 F4 F#4 F4 F#4
> C#4 D4 C#4 C4 C#4 D4 C#4 C4 C#4 B3
> Bb3 B3

> <http://value.net/~mschulter/ebphi001.mid>
....

It's great to be able to hear what you are talking about.

I just go through your posts first playing the midi clips and enjoying
them, then go back and read some of the details about them.

Also enjoyed your more recent one on 24-tet progressions,
and was nice to play the 12-tet one, then the 24-tet version,
and compare.

/tuning/topicId_24507.html#24507

Coming over fine on my soundcard.

Thanks again,

Robert