Demo...

After a conversation regarding tuning systems, I sent this to a friend of
mine, and thought I might CC this list, since I haven't posted any music in
a while...

This is just a short demonstration of the effects of "key" in a radically
unequal tuning, Wendy Carlos' harmonic scale. It's intended to demonstrate
how different "colors" or "moods" might arise out of transposition in an
unequal tuning.

Point your browser here and download the MP3 file:

http://rm-and-jo.laughingsquid.org/temp/Morsel3-in-A-D-F-C-A.mp3

This treats the same little piece of music in several "keys".

The piece was composed with a tonic of "A", and is played that way in the
first rendition. The same piece is then played three more times, in 3
different "keys". Each key is in the same tuning *system* but based on a
different tonic, without transposing the *notes* themselves. This keeps the
music near the same actual frequencies, modulo the notes that are
differently tuned in that "key". The first 2 renditions are fairly similar.
The third rendition, in "F", however is radically different, as is the
fourth in "C". We finish up with the piece played again on the tonic of
"A", as composed.

Cheers,
Rick