Prent Rodgers' Java Applet

I suppose many of you have had the opportunity to "play" with Prent
Rodgers' _Partch Tonality Diamond_ Java Applet, but I will direct
people to the page in case they haven't had a chance:

http://members.home.net/prodgers13/

Just "click on" the big tonality diamond there, and it will take you
to the Java download page...

HOWEVER, on my first attempt, Windows 98 tried to download the MOST
RECENT version of Java, and it crashed my browser every time.

One MUST use the version of Java that Prent recomments, version 1.2.2
or it won't work. It's worth getting it to work though since, short
of inviting Dean Drummond into one's home, it about the only way
to "play" the tonality diamond at one's leisure...

Now, I *did* have one question. Rodgers, apparently, has arranged
the tonality diamond so that the pitches are a bit different than
those that exist in _Genesis of a Music_.

It *looks* to me as though he has placed the "Numerary Nexes" so that
they ascend to the most remote bars... so that the 11's, both in the
denominator and the numerator are on the OUTSIDE bars.

This is different then the way Partch has it in _Genesis_.

Is there a good reason for doing this "rearranging??" Is this,
idead, an "improvement" over the Partch layout??

I'm assuming that the PHYSICAL Partch instruments have the same
layout that is in _Genesis of a Music_ right??

One more thing about the Prent Rodgers site. I found it VERY
interesting that Rodgers has the COMPLETE source code in CSOUND for
*all* his compositions up on that site!

Trusting soul, he...

I think that's a good trend. Nobody can effectively "steal" somebody
else's compositional identity... or at least without being
eventually "found out." And, this way it is an "open source"
learning experience for the entire community!

Actually, I got "inspired" to visit the Prent Rodgers applet through
the current work of Ed Borasky, who is developing similar software to
emulate Partch's "One Footed Bride..."

Probably most of the people on this list have seen Borasky's
interesting posts, but since there are so many lists these days, it's
at this egroup:

/crazy_music/messages

__________ ________ _______
Joseph Pehrson

Is there, somewhere, a list of all the lists?

David Beardsley

----- Original Message -----
From: jpehrson@rcn.com

Probably most of the people on this list have seen Borasky's
interesting posts, but since there are so many lists these days, it's
at this egroup:

/crazy_music/messages

> Is there, somewhere, a list of all the lists?
>
> David Beardsley
>
>>
>> /crazy_music/messages

My God! There's a fully-functioning list over there!
Including some authors I haven't seen over here in a while.
This is great -- the lurkers here are getting a voice.
Go for it!

I just found out that meta tuning is real. All this time I
thought it was a joke.

-Carl

--- In tuning@y..., "David Beardsley" <davidbeardsley@b...> wrote:
> Is there, somewhere, a list of all the lists?

For complete list of microtonal groups to date:
/tuning2

hth,
Jon

Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Szanto
To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 1:04 PM
Subject: [tuning] Lists List (was Re: Prent Rodgers' Java Applet)

--- In tuning@y..., "David Beardsley" <davidbeardsley@b...> wrote:
> Is there, somewhere, a list of all the lists?

For complete list of microtonal groups to date:
/tuning2

hth,
Jon