Re: Music and community

Hi Margo,

> In early September, with much inspiration and help from participants
> in this and other groups in our tuning community, I made a tape of
> some improvisations and one composition in a few tunings, mostly
> 13-tone equal temperament (13-tET). This was a small sample, meant to
> show some of things I'm doing rather than how they could be done if my
> keyboard technique were more accurate and my familiarity more
> assured

Do we get to hear these? Perhaps I've missed them.

> There are other tunings that I want to get to, for example
> Sesquisexta, with two 12-note Pythagorean chains at a pure 7:6 apart.
> This has a keyboard layout like a lattice: play C-G on the lower
> keyboard and C-G on the upper keyboard at the same time, and you get a
> pure 12:14:18:21 (around 0-267-702-969 cents).

This sounds interesting. I'll be able to try these things out soon in FTS
- with two keyboards and a 2 to 1 midi connection.

Robert

Hi Margo,

Great, I look forward to hearing your improvisations :-).

I can well understand a bit of inertia; I feel it's "in the air" as it were
right now, a kind of listlessness, and great if there is some returning of
things to normal.

I've just realised, I can play in your 24 note
dual manual scales by splitting the keyboard
and playing one in left half and the other in the
right half.

Just been trying out your two pyth. scales at interval
of 7/6, and a lovely one it is too.

E.g.
C C+ D+ E+ G F D C

where + = + 7/6

I've added a little plainsong like improv in this to my
tunes page, repeating it with elaborations; gradually
moving into new regions.

No score though, so I suppose you won't be able to hear it.
May try writing something in it at some time.

http://members.tripod.com/~robertinventor/tunes/improvisations.htm#pyth_mod_7o6

.......For FTS users:...................

I'll add it to the FTS Midi In presets drop list to make
it easy for FTS users to try it out, and also to make
related maps consisting of two scales at an interval
to each other by simply changing the scale and the interval
of modulation.
........................................

Robert