atlas of tonespace

Hello again all,

Humblest apologies to any Mac or Unix users who were unable to access Atlas of Tonespace owing to a wayward backslash; this has now been corrected. Thumbnails have also been added for the Flash charts and movies so the page should now load rapidly. The link is www.ii4i.net and click on the atlas button. If anybody finds inaccuracies or wishes to take issue on anything they find please let me know.

I look forward to receiving your comments,

Paul Hirsh

--- In tuning@y..., Paul Hirsh <monxmood@f...> wrote:
> Hello again all,
>
> Humblest apologies to any Mac or Unix users who were unable to
access Atlas
> of Tonespace owing to a wayward backslash; this has now been
corrected.
> Thumbnails have also been added for the Flash charts and movies so
the page
> should now load rapidly. The link is www.ii4i.net and click on the
atlas
> button. If anybody finds inaccuracies or wishes to take issue on
anything
> they find please let me know.
>
> I look forward to receiving your comments,
>
> Paul Hirsh

Hi Paul.

First of all, lovely page! Your graphics are quite beautiful. It
sounds like you have a ton of interesting ideas, and from the end of
the "atlas" page, it sounds like you're interested in adaptive JI,
which our own John deLaubenfels has perfected (give him a MIDI file
and he'll give you an adaptive JI retuning of it).

I do have quite a number of comments and questions. Here's the first.
Aristoxenos is known as the staunch _opponent_ of JI in the ancient
Greek world. While most theorists from Pythagoras to Ptolemy, and
even (as if by force of habit) Kirnberger, were fond of supplying
lists of ratios for their scales, Aristoxenos maintained that these
ratios had nothing to do with music; that the ear must be the final
arbiter of correctness in interval; and that the usual modes implied
a division of the octave into 12 conceptually/perceptually equal
parts, with other scales implying a 72-tone octave.

I'll continue with further comments at your request.

Cheers,
Paul