Ron sword acoustic 16-equal improvisation

Just saw this on the xenharmonic wiki, I don't know if it's ever been
posted here:

http://www.ronsword.com/sounds/Ron%20Sword%20-%2016-tone%20acoustic%20improvisation.mp3

So much for high-error tunings being unusable. There seems to be some
kind of switch that you can flip in your brain that turns a 675 cent
fifth away from "MY GOD, MAKE IT STOP" to "I dare say, that sounds
like the fifth I'm used to, but just a little flatter! Tally ho" and
I'm not exactly sure how it works. We're dealing with a very harmonic
timbre here, so I'm not exactly sure what property of the timbre it is
that causes this flip.

Beautiful "modal" stuff here. I'm not sure if I'm actually hearing
mavila[7] modes, or if it's just that a certain type of 5-limit chord
progression (e.g. some kind of 5-limit generalization of a "borrowed"
chord in meantone) is what triggers the "modal" button in my brain.
Either way, +1 for 16-tet.

-Mike

Another interesting thing that he seems to be doing is switching the
mapping for the fifth around when it's convenient. In the beginning,
when he's doing the Emaj7-sounding chord, he's using 15\16 for that
major 7, which means that the difference between the major third and
the major 7th is 10\16, or 750 cents, whereas the fifth he's using
over the root of the chord is 9\16, or 675 cents. A very nice sound
indeed.

-Mike

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...> wrote:
> Just saw this on the xenharmonic wiki, I don't know if it's ever been
> posted here:
>
> http://www.ronsword.com/sounds/Ron%20Sword%20-%2016-tone%20acoustic%20improvisation.mp3
>
> So much for high-error tunings being unusable. There seems to be some
> kind of switch that you can flip in your brain that turns a 675 cent
> fifth away from "MY GOD, MAKE IT STOP" to "I dare say, that sounds
> like the fifth I'm used to, but just a little flatter! Tally ho" and
> I'm not exactly sure how it works. We're dealing with a very harmonic
> timbre here, so I'm not exactly sure what property of the timbre it is
> that causes this flip.
>
> Beautiful "modal" stuff here. I'm not sure if I'm actually hearing
> mavila[7] modes, or if it's just that a certain type of 5-limit chord
> progression (e.g. some kind of 5-limit generalization of a "borrowed"
> chord in meantone) is what triggers the "modal" button in my brain.
> Either way, +1 for 16-tet.
>
> -Mike
>