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Most Objective Cross-Section/Sampling of 12EDO Tonalities Online?

🔗Bill Flavell <bill_flavell@email.com>

6/6/2006 3:05:30 PM

I'm at Cal Arts Valencia, CA now and have
access to 1.25 GHZ eMac internet terminals
with Mac OSX 10.3.9 and I just checked my
MIDI files at my most conceptually advanced
12EDO Yahoo Group/MIDI file archive:

/IntervalliclyNeutralPracticeMelodies/

...and they sound great, contrary to what
a certain nerd on this list from Berkeley
claimed last winter (Carl Lumma or something
like that).

I discovered a permutation pre-sorting
algorithm that reduces the minimum
neccessary melodies to give an objective
and stylistically neutral cross section of
the 12EDO tuning system to 6 melodies.

I wrote out 6 sets of these (a total of
36 melodies), but was only able to get
26 of them converted to MIDI files, so
the collection is a little skewed in that
sense, but I'm sure it's far beyond
anything anybody else out there has
attempted or accomplished.

NOTE: you need to join the group
in order to access/listen to the MIDI
files, which are in the group's Files
section.

Bill.Flavell at GMail.com

🔗Carl Lumma <clumma@yahoo.com>

6/6/2006 3:55:44 PM

> I'm at Cal Arts Valencia, CA now and have
> access to 1.25 GHZ eMac internet terminals
> with Mac OSX 10.3.9

Cool. What are you studying?

> I wrote out 6 sets of these (a total of
> 36 melodies), but was only able to get
> 26 of them converted to MIDI files, so
> the collection is a little skewed in that
> sense, but I'm sure it's far beyond
> anything anybody else out there has
> attempted or accomplished.
>
> NOTE: you need to join the group
> in order to access/listen to the MIDI
> files, which are in the group's Files
> section.

Here's a question: What does this, or any of your posts
here, have to do with microtonal tunings?

-Carl