Alternate Tunings for Brass Timbres?

I discovered an old John Chalmers post yesterday on a web site in
Finland:

http://www.tut.fi/~vnummela/mclaren

...that contained Brian McLarens thoughts on what's hot and what's
not in the 90s in terms of music theory and composition. He mentioned
the work of William A. Sethares, who now has a book/CD out (Tuning
Timbre Spectrum Scale):


http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/ttss.html

...about creating timbre-specific tuning scales.

I was curious if anybody on the list knew of any one exploring these
avenues in general, and, specifically, if there is anybody in the
alternative tuning scene who is composing for acoustic or synth brass
timbres (which are my favorites), and what your opinions are regarding
which alternative tuning scale is best suited for composing with brass
timbres. Thanks.

Bill Flavell





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