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*** iridian blu scale/mode

🔗czhang23@aol.com

6/9/2003 8:49:50 PM

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

1/1
17/16
19/16
23/18
broad tritonus pitch glide area 11/8 thru 17/12
13/8
13/7
27/14
156/77
*

Ratio: Cents Interval Name (if any)

1/1 0 tonic, unison... C 66 Hz

17/16 104.9 overtone 1/2step

19/16 297.5 overtone "funky bluesy" minor third

23/18 424.4 diminished fourth...
complexity/entropy point

broad tritonus pitch area between:
11/8 551.3 undecimal tritone (11th harmonic)
-and-
17/12 603.0 "ultrablue" tritone

13/8 840.5 "harsh" overtone 6th

13/7 1071.7 "harsh" major 7th

27/14 1137.0 septimal major 7th
diminished octave

156/77 1222.3 octave plus a comma of 78/77
78/77 = 2 x 3 x13:7 x 11

---
Hanuman Zhang, the "Yves Klein Bleu Aardvark,"
musical mad scientist (no, I don't wanna take over the world, just the sound
spectrum...)

"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