re Trancendental number in tuning

IIRC, John Chowning used the 9th root of pi in one of his pieces. Brink McGoogy has used various combinations of e and pi (and phi, perhaps). Brian McLaren probably has too. As Graham said, however,
one can't hear trancendentality.

--john

I wasn't sure if it was audible since one can sort of hear irrational numbers with equal temperament. Perhaps the theory is that equal temperament sounds mostly like just intonation, and the only thing that we really want to hear is rational. Everything else is just almost rational.

On 7/14/2013 9:38 AM, John H. Chalmers wrote:
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> IIRC, John Chowning used the 9th root of pi in one of his pieces. Brink
> McGoogy has used various combinations of e and pi (and phi, perhaps).
> Brian McLaren probably has too. As Graham said, however,
> one can't hear trancendentality.
>
> --john
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>