Olympic fanfare

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On 2/12/06, Keenan Pepper <keenanpepper@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone notice the Olympic fanfare (at least the first part) doesn't
> make use of the syntonic comma, so it can be rendered unambiguously in
> JI?
>
> Here's a version in square waves with plenty of intermodulation
> distortion (Ogg Vorbis, 153K).
>
> Keenan

Whoops, I mean here: http://home.comcast.net/~cherylgpepper/olympics.ogg

Hi Keenan.
That's really striking. How did you get such a heavy distortion?
BTW: I still can't distinguish what the third chord is.
Petr

> Whoops, I mean here: http://home.comcast.net/~cherylgpepper/olympics.ogg

No worries, your attachment arrived OK at mine even via email. Never thought
Tuning List allows to send attachments.

Petr

On 2/12/06, Petr Pařízek <p.parizek@chello.cz> wrote:
> > Whoops, I mean here: http://home.comcast.net/~cherylgpepper/olympics.ogg
>
> No worries, your attachment arrived OK at mine even via email. Never thought
> Tuning List allows to send attachments.
>
> Petr

O really? That's cool I guess. Anyway there are only two notes at a
time, it just sounds like more because of the intermodulation
distortion. If the tonic is 1/1, the third chord is just a 5/3 in the
lower voice and a 3/2 in the upper, which makes 18/5, so there's a
difference tone at 13 which sounds weird.

Keenan

Hi Keenan.

Do you think you could make another version with overdriven sines instead of
squares? As far as my experience can go, the difference tones can be made
even louder that way. Another interesting thing is that if you play just a
single tone, then the distorted sine sounds almost like square. And if
distorted heavily, it sounds just like square. And if there are more tones,
then the difference tones make really weird things.

Petr