Re: [crazy_music] Kraig Grady's wise and insightful point about 28/227, etc.

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> To: <crazy_music@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 6:02 PM
> Subject: [crazy_music] Kraig Grady's wise and insightful point about
28/227, etc.
>
>
> ... Listeners just don't seem to have much trouble hearing the
> 9-equal 133 1/3-cent interval as a recognizable "semitone," nor in
> hearing even such compressed intervals as the 19-equal 63.15-cent
> interval as a recognizable "semitone" under the right musical
> conditions.

Hi Brian,

I was going to say something about 19-EDO when I first responded
to Margo's post about 28:27.

In my _19-tone Samba_, I use a chord progression in which the
~63-cent 19-equal "semitone" features prominently, The C#-->C
and B-->Bb in the inner voices are both ~63 cents.

You can hear the mp3 and read about it at:
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/19tet/19samba.htm

(I believe you were actually one of the first people to hear
this, because I wrote it at the Sonic Arts Gallery in 1998,
around the time you were visiting.)

I found it interesting that my ears accept these small
~63-cent semitones as functional plain 'ol semitones.
I almost don't notice how small they are. One of the
mystifying things about 19-EDO, and one reason why I like
it so much.

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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