Sketch in an 11/7 s tuning

Hi there,

Today I've been exploring this scale:

1/1 22/11 6/5 4/3 3/2 11/7 2/1

Here is an improvisation in it.

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

I played this on the p.c. keyboard incidentally,
retuned in FTS (debugging the next FTS release).

Has some limitations - after all it
isn't particularly designed as a musical
instrument - you have to avoid
particular triads on the keyboard that
don't play - depends on the keyboard
e.g. on my p.c. if you type 4, 5 and 6
in that order into a document, like a broken chord
so that all three are down at the end,
then the 6 never appears on the screen
until you release the 4 or 5.
If you play a chord like that then
the music comes to a sudden stop until
you release the keys. But as you
hear one can get use to the p.c.
keyboard eccentricities for triads and improvise
on it. It seems that a p.c. keyboard can
usually play all diads which is useful.

If anyone happens to know the
reason for this btw then I'm
interested to know. It is operating
system independent at least
happens in same way on same computer
with same keyboard if you use
Linux, Windows 3.1, MSDOS or Windows 98
so I'm guessing that it doesn't depend on
the operating system at all.

When you play the disallowed
combinations of keys on the p.c. keyboard,
you get a click or a beep from
the computer, seems to be
from the modem on this machine,
for some reason, though not sure
of that.

Robert

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 09:21 am, Robert Walker wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Today I've been exploring this scale:
>
> 1/1 22/11 6/5 4/3 3/2 11/7 2/1

Do you mean 12/11...otherwise, you have two octaves (22/11 and 2/1)?

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.dividebypi.com
http://www.akjmusic.com

Hi Aaron,

Sorry,

1/1 22/21 6/5 4/3 3/2 11/7 2/1

It is the same interval from the 1/1
to the 22/21 and from the 3/2 to the 11/7.

As cents:

80.537 315.641 498.045 701.955 782.492 1200.0

The piece ends with a chord shift downwards
downwards by 22/21, I remember that.

Robert