Dolores Catherino - Tonal Plexus and Expanding Musical Consciousness

On the blog on the web site of H-PI I saw this terrific video and email exchange with Dolores Catherino of Anchorage on her use of the TPX6 Tonal Plexus keyboard.

"Dolores Catherino is a multi-instrumentalist based in Anchorage, Alaska. She has owned a TPX6 Tonal Plexus keyboard since July, 2008, and dedicates significant time to the study of the instrument. I recently posed the following interview questions to Dolores by email."

More here on her use of 106 TET: http://www.h-pi.com/wordpress/?p=74

Very interesting video - thanks for sharing.

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:27 AM, prentrodgers <prentrodgers@...>wrote:

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>
> On the blog on the web site of H-PI I saw this terrific video and email
> exchange with Dolores Catherino of Anchorage on her use of the TPX6 Tonal
> Plexus keyboard.
>
> "Dolores Catherino is a multi-instrumentalist based in Anchorage, Alaska.
> She has owned a TPX6 Tonal Plexus keyboard since July, 2008, and dedicates
> significant time to the study of the instrument. I recently posed the
> following interview questions to Dolores by email."
>
> More here on her use of 106 TET: http://www.h-pi.com/wordpress/?p=74
>
>
>

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--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "prentrodgers" <prentrodgers@...> wrote:

> More here on her use of 106 TET: http://www.h-pi.com/wordpress/?p=74

She never actually says why she likes it. Karadeniz proposed a MOS from it for Turkish maqam music.

Interesting, thanks Prent. She's talking about an issue I've
repeatedly raised here and on Tuning, regarding the use of the
thumb on 2-D keyboards.

I wonder if she's the only person in the world who owns both
a MicroZone and TonalPlexus...

-Carl

At 07:27 AM 12/28/2010, you wrote:
>On the blog on the web site of H-PI I saw this terrific video and
>email exchange with Dolores Catherino of Anchorage on her use of the
>TPX6 Tonal Plexus keyboard.
>
>"Dolores Catherino is a multi-instrumentalist based in Anchorage,
>Alaska. She has owned a TPX6 Tonal Plexus keyboard since July, 2008,
>and dedicates significant time to the study of the instrument. I
>recently posed the following interview questions to Dolores by email."
>
>More here on her use of 106 TET: http://www.h-pi.com/wordpress/?p=74
>
>

Gene wrote:

>> More here on her use of 106 TET: http://www.h-pi.com/wordpress/?p=74
>
>She never actually says why she likes it. Karadeniz proposed a MOS
>from it for Turkish maqam music.
>

Probably because she had about that many buttons left over after
dividing the keyboard into regions by 5ths. She says she thinks
of it as 2 x 53.

-Carl

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <carl@...> wrote:

> >She never actually says why she likes it. Karadeniz proposed a MOS
> >from it for Turkish maqam music.
> >
>
> Probably because she had about that many buttons left over after
> dividing the keyboard into regions by 5ths. She says she thinks
> of it as 2 x 53.

And so it is. From a regular temperament paradigm point of view, its main talent is that like 41, you can divide the fifth in half for a neutral third generator, which is in fact what Karadeniz did to juice up 41. But what she does with it, who knows.