Re: Resonant spaces in relation to tuning

> Dan Wolf and others have been commenting on the effect on space resonance
> upon intonation of Chant. One of my favorite CDs is Ocura C560027-28
> entitled l'Eglise Orthodoxe Ethiopienne de Jerusalem. Besides being
> uncannily beautiful in a non western way (A preferance to a more nasal
> tone), it inspires me to make certain speculations as to how chant might
> on occasion could have been sung. Placed in a wide circle beneath a dome,
> a chant is started by one singer with others joining him with some delay
> so each line is heard "in echo" or multiple echoes. This "imatation"
> process works especially well musically and a composer could not help
> being drawn to play with the possibilities. I only bring it up to point
> out that one of the scales, of which there are two (pentatonics),
> contains intervals close to a semitones. B C Eb Gb G B C. (I tend not to
> guess at the intonations of things when I sence I am hearing it through
> whatever tuning i am working with at the moment). The entire scale rings
> as a chord. The chant like "rythumn" places it as having enough
> simularity to our common chant for me to hear it as an influence on other
> chant or from a common source. about 10 years ago I experimented with
> taking a solo chant record and overdubbing it out of sync and found it to
> work quite well. Possibly some of thisd music might have been chosen or
> composed with this possibility in mind. Anyone Familiar with this
> recording!

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