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"atonal" revelations, etc. bla bla

🔗Christopher Bailey <cb202@...>

2/26/2002 3:42:21 PM

>> me:
>> , and I thought about this. The
>> most powerful aural experiences I had had with JI were when I could
>really
>> hear the caressing "buzz" of partials locking in together.
>
> P.E:
>
>i think it's really the 'locking' of the combinational tones and the
>virtual pitch, produced by the fundamentals and the partials, not
>the 'locking' of the partials themselves. for if it were, a utonal
>chord like 1/(16:17:20) would lock just as well -- it doesn't.

Yeah agreed, I think I meant "composed out partials" or "partials with
o-series of their own".