Re: Earth Tones: Drums-n-Bass

on 4/28/01 3:44 AM, tuning@yahoogroups.com at tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

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> /tuning/files/Ligon%20FFT/
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> Please let me know what you think Earthlings!

Jacky,

I like it, particuarly the melodic use of "tritones" (although I guess I
can't call them that in this tuning). Incidently, I had a teacher in late
1970s who also told me that the frequency of the earth was a low Bb. I guess
any music we make with this scale could be very "grounding" :-)

Seth

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Jacky Ligon wrote:

> OK Kurt, Mary, David, Kraig (!), Paul, Dan, Joseph and all my other
> dear friends; I've uploaded a new Drums-n-Bass tune to our files
> section, based on the 2nd Schumann Resonances tuning for you all to
> check out. You'll find it here:
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> /tuning/files/Ligon%20FFT/
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> Please let me know what you think Earthlings!

Really nice piece, Jacky. Even my wife likes it, and she doesn't usually get
alternately tuned stuff, nor is she a fan of the usual B&D type music. Earth
Tones has a brightness to it; a bubbling, vigorous joy.

Tuning-wise, it feels natural to me. I don't hear any of the awkward melodic
intervals that I associate with JI (RI in this case?), nothing feels like a stretch.
Everything is in its proper place, and dancing like the dickens. In my imagination
I see gnomes and subterranean spirits energetically dancing and working at the
same time, as if the the two activities were naturally one and the same.

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