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Comma pumps that temper out more than one comma

🔗Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...>

1/12/2012 5:46:40 PM

Comma pumps are characteristic chord progressions for codimension-1
temperaments. Has anyone thought about characteristic chord
progressions for codimension-2 temperaments?

Obviously you could just pump through each comma separately, but
there's probably a better way to do it that treats the entire
multimonzo being tempered out as a cohesive whole, and hence creates
the illusion of the harmony being as tight-knit and densely packed
together as possible.

-Mike

🔗Herman Miller <hmiller@...>

1/13/2012 5:29:19 PM

On 1/12/2012 8:46 PM, Mike Battaglia wrote:
> Comma pumps are characteristic chord progressions for codimension-1
> temperaments. Has anyone thought about characteristic chord
> progressions for codimension-2 temperaments?
>
> Obviously you could just pump through each comma separately, but
> there's probably a better way to do it that treats the entire
> multimonzo being tempered out as a cohesive whole, and hence creates
> the illusion of the harmony being as tight-knit and densely packed
> together as possible.

You'd have to pump both commas at the same time, or you'd just be pumping the sum or difference of the commas.