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RE: [tuning] Re: Tritave friendly timbres

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>

8/9/2000 7:23:45 AM

Mats wrote,

>I find it to be depending on the listener´s focus more than anything
>else.Since the basic theory behind tritave scales is to base the music only

>on odd-numbered factors,all sounds containing even
harmonics(non-symmetrical
>waves)are to be considered inharmonic.I´m planning to use a pitch tracker
to
>control a ring modulator affecting my own voice to sing and play whacky
>futurist folk music in tritave based tunings with synthesizers and
>percussion.

Ironically, then, the notes you'll actually be singing will then be
inharmonic with respect to the scale you're using, since they'll be one
octave above scale tones. Sounds like a really cool project, though!