Monz's tonescape program etc.

Hi all,

I just met Monz at the Boulder MahlerFest, where he
was on a panel at the Saturday symposium. He showed me
Tonalsoft's new tonescape program
(http://tonalsoft.com/support/tonescape/tut-compose.aspx)which
is an extrememly promising microtonal composing tool.
Take a look at it!

it waqs great meeting him, and I'm sure I would enjoy
meeting others in oiur little micro-club in my
travels.

Chris Mohr

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Hi Chris and everyone,

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Chris Mohr
<fromtherealmoftheshadow@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just met Monz at the Boulder MahlerFest, where he
> was on a panel at the Saturday symposium. He showed me
> Tonalsoft's new tonescape program
> (http://tonalsoft.com/support/tonescape/tut-compose.aspx)which
> is an extrememly promising microtonal composing tool.
> Take a look at it!
>
> it waqs great meeting him, and I'm sure I would enjoy
> meeting others in oiur little micro-club in my
> travels.
>
> Chris Mohr

Thanks for the good review! It was great meeting you too.

Chris thinks of himself more as a "53-ist" than a
"microtonalist", since 53-ET is the tuning in which
he is specifically interested, as a temperament of JI.

He kept wanting me to show him Tonescape lattices of
53-edo as a temperament of 7-limit JI, and it *is*
significantly better at approximating ratios-of-7 than
12-edo is, but it really excels at 5-limit JI so that's
mostly what i showed him ... besides, when the dimensionality
of the lattice goes beyond 3 dimensions, Tonescape's
"Geometry|Closed Curved" menu choice results in a shape
which i think doesn't particularly convey much useful
information -- where this menu choice *does* work beautifully
is when the JI space is 2-dimensional, then you can see
the helix, torus, etc., which results from the tempering.

Anyway, it was terrific to meet Chris and his lovely wife
Karen, and Chris even came back by himself on Sunday, armed
with his hand-drawn 53-edo "circles-of-5ths" diagrams, which
reminded me of the earliest microtonal research i did:
calculating transpositions of Partch's 29-tone 11-limit
Tonality Diamond using all 29 of the notes as a "local 1/1"
... and in those days, i did all the calculations with a
pen and paper, not even a calculator (let alone a computer).

And of course, the MahlerFest itself was a total blast,
concluding with an *outstanding* performance of the Mahler
warhorse: his 1st Symphony ... but that's a topic for a
different Yahoo list:

/mahler/

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software