Karambit scale-tuning

_Karambit_ [Bahasa Indonesia] (kah-rahm-bit):

1] traditional utility/personal defense/martial arts knife of Indo-Malaysia
characterized by its unique curved blade, curved edges, & oversized finger
ring. http://www.karambit.com/

2] a 14-tone, non-octave _kreasi baru_ ("new creation") tuning-scale loosely
& roughly based on:
the uneven intervallic characteristics of Indonesian Pelog,
ancient Chinese scale-tuning (circa 3rd BCE),
Japanese and South East Asian scale-tunings,
John Chalmer's minor mode cluster,
and one form of BeBop Locrian microtonally "expanded."

0, 138, 232, 316, 386, 426, 590, 680, 746, 814, 884, 1180, 1220, 1338

---
Hanuman Zhang,
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

"Music is the art of thinking with sounds." - Combarieu

"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

LILA - Sanskrit, "divine play/sport/whimsy" - "the universe is what happens
when God wants to play" - "joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in the art
of creation"

...improvisation is about change, about flux rather than stasis. ...
improvisation is about a constant change. - Steve Beresford

"Music might tame and civilize wild beasts but 'tis evident it never yet
could tame and civilize musicians." --John Gay

improvisation: "a process of liberation, a working around the assumptions
that define our civilization, and the results are open-ended." - John Berndt