Tuning lattices

Hi Graham (et al)!

Hope things are well "across the pond" in the UK. Thanks again for your
input on matrices a few months back. (We had exchanged emails about
visualizing chords by gluing toothpicks together, etc.)

I got a chance to see the "L.A. Microfest" last Sunday--Johnny Reinhard on
bassoon (and conducting), John Schneider on guitars, etc. Pretty neat!

Anyway, I got inspired. I'm thinking of revising the bottom of my web page
entitled "'The' Dominant Seventh Chord", by adding lattices for the samples,
=E0 la Your "Tuning Lattices". Please see the rough draft, at:

http://www.pacificnet.net/~nowitzky/justint/dom7latt.htm

Take care,
--Mark
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The interview with Vai where he talks about his microtonal guitars is
GuitarWorld, September 1993...and, I would be mighty surprised if they're
not eq temps...Hstick

>I like his earlier work better. The later work has too much dsp.
>Lush - yes but I'm a big fan of great guitar tone = power amp
>distortion!

His EP "Alien Love Secrets" from 1995 is free of effects -- just
distortion and some samples of his baby son "talking". Have you heard
it? I haven't heard the follow-up, "Fire Garden".

To get back on the subject of this list, Vai did a piece with microtonal
clusters, which is included on the CD "Flex-able". I believe he just
overdubbed the same part 8 times, transposed one degree higher (in
96-tone equal temperament) each time.