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...and stranger minds

🔗Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@ihug.co.nz>

6/6/2000 12:39:17 AM

<snip> Background information on LucyTuning, Harrison, etc is all at the site
mentioned above.

Anyway, that's the only example I can think of where complex numbers have
anything to do with tuning theory. If you really want to play
mathematical tricks, you could try using a complex function to choose
notes, and take the real part as key velocity and the imaginary part as
pitch. That's fairly harmless, could even be productive.

Graham

****Good thinking Graham!

Using this as a notation we can manipulate scored music, I had plans
for manipulateing pitch: INPUT----->formula----->OUTPUT, and this could be done
with (x, y)=Both Real, (x, y)=Both imaginary, (x, y)=real and imaginary,
and, naturally
the same can be done for volume.

This is how mountains are moved, civilisations are formed!

Sarn "Polyverse Philosopher" Ursell.