New tuning demo

I've uploaded <http://x31eq.com/magicpump.mp3> as a demo
of the temperament I discovered with multiple approximations
generated iteratively and consistently, and that I haven't thought of
a name for yet. See what you think, it's about 3MB. I wasn't at all
impressed listening again from cold, but second time I got into the
swing of it. Very much work in progress, and may stay that way
forever ;) It'll do as a demo, I'll keep trying for a masterpiece.

This replaces my elemental suite, in case anybody still wanted that.

Graham

--- In crazy_music@y..., "Graham Breed" <graham@m...> wrote:
Hi Graham

I haven't had a chance to tell you how much I love your titles. You
have a wicked sense of humor that knows where to prick pomposity,
and really gets me laughing. I may ask you for help with some titles
for my next CD, I think they are that funny. I'd love to use
Litigurgical chants of the helmholtz cult. Also one of the sounds
you had up I liked a lot because it reminded me of a Tibetan horn.

I also think the scale has promise, but that may be because I am an
iterative nut. Have you posted it somewhere on another list?

My one sugestion for your music would be to get ACID (the program not
the hallucinogen :-) because I think it would really flesh out your
guitar playing better than the drum machine. And use your Kyma more -
I know you could get much weirder.

Anyway I think that your work is not nearly as bad as you think it
is :-)

Peace,
Mary

Mary wrote:

> I haven't had a chance to tell you how much I love your titles.
You
> have a wicked sense of humor that knows where to prick pomposity,
> and really gets me laughing. I may ask you for help with some
titles
> for my next CD, I think they are that funny. I'd love to use
> Litigurgical chants of the helmholtz cult. Also one of the sounds
> you had up I liked a lot because it reminded me of a Tibetan horn.

Picking words you like and throwing them together can be good. The
best one I thought of was "Cheese Plant Revivalist Stomp". I didn't
attach it to anything very good, so you can re-use it if you like.

> I also think the scale has promise, but that may be because I am an
> iterative nut. Have you posted it somewhere on another list?

I mentioned it on TBL once, it's the "optimal" 9-limit temerament
according to my program. I'll throw together a longer explanation
sometime, but here are some cents if you want them

0.0
58.8
117.7
176.5
235.3
262.7
294.1
321.6
380.4
439.2
498.0
556.9
615.7
674.5
702.0
760.8
819.6
878.4
937.3
996.1
1054.9
1082.3
1113.7
1141.2
1200.0

> My one sugestion for your music would be to get ACID (the program
not
> the hallucinogen :-) because I think it would really flesh out
your
> guitar playing better than the drum machine. And use your Kyma
more -
> I know you could get much weirder.

There's already a Kyma module for chopping up drum tracks. I need to
find some samples and the time to work on them. In this case, the
drums are done on my Korg, and the next job is to record them live-to-
MIDI. Everything else is done on Kyma, using a single guitar sample
(which I can upload here if you like, it's a 783KB AIFF)

One characteristic of this tuning is how profoundly un-weird it is.
That's one reason I want the demo finished with so that I can go back
to Miracle (or a mixture of the two).

> Anyway I think that your work is not nearly as bad as you think it
> is :-)

As I've been playing with music and computers for a few years, and
have this expensive equipment, the results should be excellent by now.

Graham