Back to Blackjack once again!

I was really intending to try a different scale. Promise. However,
this extract from a little note I sent to Paul Erlich and Dave Keenan
about sums it up:

"I wanted you both to know that I was starting over again as a kind
of tabula rasa to find an interesting scale to work with and I looked
at several of the scales in Scala and, quite frankly, *nothing* is as
interesting for me right now as Blackjack, so it was well worth the
time it took constructing it.

Smaller oriental scales are, well, too small and, for me, too
oriental... :) Partch's scales are *huge* and interesting, but
mostly always sound chromatic, since it's hard to manipulate the
notes otherwise. The Bohlen-Pierce scale is *very* interesting, but
I miss the octave. I'm sure I would need that sometime.

I'm just getting the right combination of harmonic consonance with
xenharmonic-sounding small intervals with Blackjack, aside from the
fact that I know what all the notes actually *are* with a keyboard
marked with Sagittal-Wilson."

Of course, Paul's response, as I had anticipated, was that there were
*lots* of other scales to explore. I'm sure he's right on that, but
I really have two hands full just with Blackjack at the moment, so
I'm discovering...

Joseph Pehrson

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@...> wrote:

Way to go!

-Carl

Well, Blackjack is an excellent tuning so there you go. :-) There
absolutely MUST be people concentrating on specific tunings,
if "alternative tuning", aka "actually making music" is to be heard
outside of remote conclaves.

IMO the first 30 seconds of your piece "Blacklight" is evidence enough
that it's a tuning worth spending a lifetime on.

-Cameron Bobro

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Cameron Bobro" <misterbobro@...> wrote:
>
> Well, Blackjack is an excellent tuning so there you go. :-) There
> absolutely MUST be people concentrating on specific tunings,
> if "alternative tuning", aka "actually making music" is to be heard
> outside of remote conclaves.
>
> IMO the first 30 seconds of your piece "Blacklight" is evidence
enough
> that it's a tuning worth spending a lifetime on.
>
> -Cameron Bobro
>

***Thanks so much for the positive commentary!

JP