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adaptive 11-limit JI *is* microtonal

🔗monz <joemonz@...>

7/17/2001 6:07:59 AM

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> From: "monz" <joemonz@y...>
> Date: Tue Jul 17, 2001 12:32 pm
> Subject: The brilliant visionary genius Arnold Schoenberg
>
>
> > </crazy_music/topicId_unknown.html#478>
> > From: <xed@...>
> > To: <crazy_music@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Mon Jul 16, 2001 6:45 am [Greenwich time]
> > Subject: [crazy_music] The arrogant incomepetent
> > ignoramus Arnold Schoenberg
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Joe Monzo claims
> >
> > "I found this to be *really* amusing, because *just the
> > night before I read it* I composed a brand-new choral piece
> > (inspired by Margo Schulter's recent MIDI-file <http://value.
> > net/~mschulter/20tgz002.mid>) in 12-tET and sent it to John
> > deLaubenfels to hear what retunings he could come up with!"
> > [Monzo, Joe, op cit.]
> >
> > Okay -- I should have said "microtonal music."
>
>
> Well, now that deLaubenfels has retuned it into 11-limit
> adaptive JI, it *is* microtonal. I'll post the details
> of the tuning to the Files section to accompany the mp3
> if necessary.

Here's an mp3 of this piece made by Jacky Ligon, which
is *much* better-sounding than the one I posted. (Still
not as good as a real choir... but then, I eventually
want to retune the pitches by hand anyway...)
/tuning/files/monz/01-7-8cr11.mp3

And here are the tuning specifications as given by
John deLaubenfels:
/tuning/files/monz/01-7-8cr11.txt

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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