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iridian scale/mode

🔗czhang23@aol.com

6/9/2003 10:42:54 AM

Hiya peeps,
briefly for your enjoyment and possible "feedback", 'ere's a scale tuning
I came up with this rather sleepless weekend ::weak grin & *snarfle!*::

iridian scale/mode - irregular JI, non-octave, decatonic, dronal/melodic

1/1
33/32 53.3
19/16 297.5
23/18 423.4
11/8 551.3
17/12 603
23/16 628.3
13/8 840.5
13/7 1071.7
27/14 1137
156/77 1222.3 octave plus a comma of 78/77
78/77 = 2 x 3 x13:7 x 11
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---
Hanuman Zhang, the "Yves Klein Bleu Aardvark,"
musical mad scientist (no, I don't wanna take over the world, just the sound
spectrum...)

"What strange risk of hearing can bring sound to music - a hearing whose
obligation awakens a sensibility so new that it is forever a unique, new-born,
anti-death surprise, created now and now and now. .. a hearing whose moment
in time is always daybreak." - Lucia Dlugoszewski

"The wonderousness of the human mind is too great to be transferred into
music only by 7 or 12 elements of tone steps in one octave." - shakuhachi master
Masayuki Koga

"There's a rabbinical tradition that the music in heaven will be microtonal"
-annotative interpretation of Schottenstein Tehillim, 92:4, the verse being:
"Upon a ten-stringed * instrument and upon lyre, with singing accompanied by
harp." [* utilizing new tones]

NADA BRAHMA - Sanskrit, "sound [is the] Godhead"

"God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of himself." -Thomas
Merton