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playing with ancient greek scales

🔗Brian Redfern <brianwredfern@...>

1/7/2006 12:54:11 PM

I use csound for my own stuff, which is all microtonal. I've been
doing things somewhat randomly, its microtonal, but not a particular
scale, I'm just messing with sounds till I get something I like.

I had a microtonal piece performed in rome last year, a realtime
csound piece, and got comissioned to do another for next year's music
festival.

I'm combining microtonal melody/harmony with "techno beats", (Juan
Atkins and other 'old schooll' detroit stuff).

Anyways it might sound cheesy, but the "techno" thing is very loose,
and the beats are super-massive, so it winds up sounding neat, and
since its all done in csound there's no signature "gear sound" that
you find in most techno, where you can call off all the gear they
used.

I found this site is useful:
http://sonic-arts.org/monzo/aristoxenus/tutorial.htm

I wonder if anyone has any other pointers to learning ancient greek
tuning/composition systems.