Identity Interval

Kraig,
----- Original Message -----
From: Kraig Grady
To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 02 Eylül 2005 Cuma 17:44
Subject: Re: [tuning] Digest Number 3647

don't you think identity interval is more poetic than generator?

I was almost excommunicated when I rejected the dismissal of the acronym `JI` in favor of something else, which I thought was more poetic and wanted it to remain that way because it also meant Jemaati'l Islamiyyah (not Jihad-Islamiyyah as some assumed rashly). So, I am unwilling to negate your question.

at least sometimes I personally have always like working with constant structures that didn't repeat at the octave . for instance take 12 ET and treat it as a 19 tone sequence of semitones and take the 12 tone subsets of that.

Uh, I tend to think that it would be quite messy to do so.

When your original set of intervals are not equally space one has a plethora of variations depending on the different modes. going the opposite direction is also quite musical. treating say 7 tones out of 12 as you interval of equivalence. from there you pull out the 'pentatonic therein. both these i have used in actual pieces, recorded on some of my recordings.

I have to listen in order to comment further.

As i mentioned when your base scale, is not equal this leads to some really interesting variations as you proceed up and down that gives ones melodic lines a dynamic quality, that forces harmony to follow on its heels. the basic mos application i first lean from Erv, who also has applied the viggo brun algorithm in similar fashion to non octive intervals.

Viggo-brun algorithm? Do please explain.

Cordially,
Ozan