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Mapping progress [Scala]

🔗Joseph Pehrson <josephpehrson@compuserve.com>

6/11/2000 1:09:27 PM

Paul Erlich wrote, T.D. 669

> many arrangements that simply reshuffle 12-tET pitches. For
> example, since you enjoy the effect of a 6-tone scale, with "tritones"
> sounding like "octaves", you could explore all kinds of 6-tone scales found
> within 12-tET and find endless fascination in doing so (no facetiousness
> intended). However, that is not really the subject of this list.

Actually, I'm doing this now... The Scala mapping function was really
not difficult to use at all, once I looked at it (!!) The comments are
very clear in the text file, so all a person has to do is replace the
values. My first grand "oeuvre" was to turn the first 6 notes of the
keyboard pattern (YES, with tritones as octaves!) into a repeating
whole-tone scale. More "surprises" to follow. Frankly, I was happy to
hear that Margo Schulter found that unusual keyboard patterns derived
simply from 12-tET were "xeno" enough for this list... I would think so,
too... However, of course, I wouldn't want to limit myself to that...

Now, what do I do with the other 6 keys (??)
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