beautiful 13 limit harmonic series melody

Hi there,

Thought maybe you'll appreciate this beautiful
13 limit fractal tune that FTS came up with while
doodling around in it today:

http://www.robertinventor.com/beautiful_13_limit_harmonic_series_melody.mid

It is played in the harmonic series fragment:
5/4 11/8 13/8 2/1

The unending fractal tune will be in the next upload of FTS whenever
I manage to finish that... (maybe tomorrow at last).

Robert

>Thought maybe you'll appreciate this beautiful
>13 limit fractal tune that FTS came up with while
>doodling around in it today:
>
> www.robertinventor.com/beautiful_13_limit_harmonic_series_melody.mid
>
>It is played in the harmonic series fragment:
>5/4 11/8 13/8 2/1
>
>The unending fractal tune will be in the next upload of FTS whenever
>I manage to finish that... (maybe tomorrow at last).

That *is* nice.

-Carl

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Walker"
<robertwalker@n...> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Thought maybe you'll appreciate this beautiful
> 13 limit fractal tune that FTS came up with while
> doodling around in it today:
>
>
http://www.robertinventor.com/beautiful_13_limit_harmonic_series_melod
y.mid
>
> It is played in the harmonic series fragment:
> 5/4 11/8 13/8 2/1
>
> The unending fractal tune will be in the next upload of FTS whenever
> I manage to finish that... (maybe tomorrow at last).
>
> Robert

Wow, that's really nice.

For some reason, 13/8 sounds like the tonic to me, so I would write
it as 1/1 16/13 20/13 22/13, or in cents, 0 359.4723 745.7861
910.7903. Very pretty.

Hi Robt,

{you wrote...}
>Thought maybe you'll appreciate this beautiful 13 limit fractal tune that >FTS came up with while doodling around in it today:

Quite nice. I am going to transfer it to my main music box and see if I can fiddle with it. If the tunings are spread across multiple midi channels, I'm sunk, but maybe I'll just burn an audio file and save it for later mixing/composing.

But what I *really* wanted to say was that I found it charming for you to speak of FTS as an entity, capable of creating melodies! Of course I realize that it does just that, but you speak of your creation in a very charming manner, and it makes the experience (for me) quite intriguing!

Cheers,
Jon

Hi Paul,

> Wow, that's really nice.
>
> For some reason, 13/8 sounds like the tonic to me, so I would write
> it as 1/1 16/13 20/13 22/13, or in cents, 0 359.4723 745.7861
> 910.7903. Very pretty.

Yes I agree, the 13/8 in this scale is perhaps the most
like a "home" note and the 16/13 to 1/1 step particularly
has a feeling of going home to it to me.

It is a close thing though, any of the notes
in this harmonic fragement could function as a 1/1
and as you play notes up and down in the scale then
you feel that you could stop anywhere and also
that you could continue going on to the next
note up or down. After as long a pause on
the previous note as one likes.

I suppose the feeling is that you can stop anywhere
for as long as you like, but however long
you stop, you could continue again at any
moment and go on to the next note - so a
melody in this harmonic fragment never
really finishes :-).

Thanks,

Robert