Computer keyboard as musical keyboard

Hi everyone,

I came across this Web page recently and found the idea and invention
presented intriguing. The page says, "the user is able to select from
a number of scales, including microtonal scales and key signatures."
One can listen to examples of how thre approach pans out with 12tET.

Mapping keys to relative intervals rather than absolute pitches
apparently makes it possible to use a computer keyboard very
effectively as a pitch control device.

http://www.samchillian.com/aboutsam.html

Please be tolerant if this is old news; I have seen nothing in the
recent discussion here that indicated an awareness of it.

Regards,
George

>Hi everyone,
>
>I came across this Web page recently and found the idea and invention
>presented intriguing. The page says, "the user is able to select from
>a number of scales, including microtonal scales and key signatures."
>One can listen to examples of how thre approach pans out with 12tET.
>
>Mapping keys to relative intervals rather than absolute pitches
>apparently makes it possible to use a computer keyboard very
>effectively as a pitch control device.
>
>http://www.samchillian.com/aboutsam.html
>
>Please be tolerant if this is old news; I have seen nothing in the
>recent discussion here that indicated an awareness of it.
>
>Regards,
>George

I visited Leon's apartment in the Greenwich Village in NY in 1998.
More recently, I reviewed an album by his sometimes-bandmate
Brian Charrette for Keyboard magazine...

http://www.keyboardmag.com/story.asp?sectioncode=28&storycode=8229

All you NYers, check this guy out (non-micro, but what the hey)!

The Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheepee has been mentioned before
on the tuning list, I think...

-Carl

Addendum:

Of course, there is the possibility that I read about the thing here
in the first place and just forgot where I learned of it. Anyway,
*just in case* y'all didn't know about it, now you do. :)

Regards,
George

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "George Henry"
<cruithnelaluna@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I came across this Web page recently and found the idea and
invention
> presented intriguing. The page says, "the user is able to select
from
> a number of scales, including microtonal scales and key
signatures."
> One can listen to examples of how thre approach pans out with
12tET.
>
> Mapping keys to relative intervals rather than absolute pitches
> apparently makes it possible to use a computer keyboard very
> effectively as a pitch control device.
>
> http://www.samchillian.com/aboutsam.html
>
> Please be tolerant if this is old news; I have seen nothing in the
> recent discussion here that indicated an awareness of it.
>
> Regards,
> George
>

> http://www.samchillian.com/aboutsam.html

I just saw that page a couple days ago, too. Another was for software
running on 68k mac and just now I followed the links to the main page
which seems related to the Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee:

Robert Willey. Programmable Instruments: What You Play Doesn't Doesn't
Have To Be What You Get. 2003
http://www.willshare.com/willeyrk/creative/papers/programmable/
article.htm

The quote from Marvin Minsky at the samchillian site reminded me about
listening to a Muse perform a little of all music in a tiny room
filled with funny remnants upstairs from a collection of antique
pianos. And then someone posted this link to oddmusic

http://www.trovar.com/muse/muse.html

Clark