Beats and BPM

Whilst intoning various neutral intervals upon my newly fretted
guitar, I discovered a technique (new to me), that I think will
deserve future exploration; that of correlating intervallic "beats"
to rhythmic/tempo "Beats per Minute".

As I was improvising on the micro guitar, whilst jamming along with
some drums (wearing rhinestone studded leather wrist wraps for added
visual impact), I found that when I would play certain intervals, the
beats would very closely lock time to my drums (most pronounced in
the low range chords). And it sounded unbelievably cool too! Almost
like a tremolo effect, yet emanating from the sounding of choice
ratios.

Yet another beautiful possibility with microtones.

Can anyone say if there has ever been some study of the effects of
correlating beats to BPM?

Thanks,

Jacky Ligon

Jacky wrote,

>And it sounded unbelievably cool too!

>Can anyone say if there has ever been some study of the effects of
>correlating beats to BPM?

You've just completed the study -- the result: it sounds unbelievably cool.

Henry Cowell's "Quartet Euphometric" could be a starting point for such
explorations.

--- In tuning@egroups.com, ligonj@n... wrote:

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> Whilst intoning various neutral intervals upon my newly fretted
> guitar, I discovered a technique (new to me), that I think will
> deserve future exploration; that of correlating intervallic "beats"
> to rhythmic/tempo "Beats per Minute".
>
> ...
>
> Can anyone say if there has ever been some study of the effects of
> correlating beats to BPM?

Jacky,

I'm not totally sure, but I believe that once again I can
cite Ben Johnston as a pioneer. He has definitely written
pieces which correllate rhythmic ratios with pitch ratios,
and if I'm not mistaken, some of these rhythmic ratios were
also correllated with tempo.

The best place to look for info on this would be
_The Music of Ben Johnston_, by Heidi von Gunden.

-monz
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
'All roads lead to n^0'

Monz wrote,

>I'm not totally sure, but I believe that once again I can
>cite Ben Johnston as a pioneer. He has definitely written
>pieces which correllate rhythmic ratios with pitch ratios,
>and if I'm not mistaken, some of these rhythmic ratios were
>also correllated with tempo.

Right, but not rates of beating, which is what the question was.