37

BTW, I turned 37 today. Getting up there. When my daughter is my
current age, I'll be 74!

I had this idea that I should try and write a piece in the age I'm at
until I leave Earth. Force me to confront tunings I would normally
avoid (I guess mosty 'cause they lack good fifths) that way. A good
compositional exercise?

-A.

Happy birthday then! I just turned 36 myself. And congratulations on the daughter.

36-TET isn't a hard tuning to write in, but now I can't wait until my 53rd birthday.

~D.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Krister Johnson" <aaron@dividebypi.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 10:38 PM
Subject: [tuning] 37

> BTW, I turned 37 today. Getting up there. When my daughter is my
> current age, I'll be 74!
>
> I had this idea that I should try and write a piece in the age I'm at
> until I leave Earth. Force me to confront tunings I would normally
> avoid (I guess mosty 'cause they lack good fifths) that way. A good
> compositional exercise?
>
> -A.

And I, until 79!

LOL.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Wier" <dawiertx@sbcglobal.net>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 03 �ubat 2007 Cumartesi 6:53
Subject: Re: [tuning] 37

> Happy birthday then! I just turned 36 myself. And congratulations on the
> daughter.
>
> 36-TET isn't a hard tuning to write in, but now I can't wait until my 53rd
> birthday.
>
> ~D.
>

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Krister Johnson" <aaron@...>
wrote:

> I had this idea that I should try and write a piece in the age I'm at
> until I leave Earth. Force me to confront tunings I would normally
> avoid (I guess mosty 'cause they lack good fifths) that way. A good
> compositional exercise?

I can think of ones I like better, but both 37 and 38 (and for that
matter 36, which you missed) have interesting possibilities. People
tell me in jazz one often leaves out the fifth of a chord, and 37
rather encourages doing that. I usually think of it in connection with
porcupine, but 3125/3087, not a porcupine comma, is 3-free and pretty
important to the no-threes harmony of 37.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@...>
wrote:

> I usually think of it in connection with
> porcupine, but 3125/3087, not a porcupine comma, is 3-free and pretty
> important to the no-threes harmony of 37.

Sorry, I'm babbling. That's a no-twos comma of course, as one can tell
just by looking at it and seeing it is a ratio of two odd numbers.
However, everything I said is actually true of 3136/3125 instead.

We have that 3136/3125 is |6 -5 2> in no-threes monzo form, with a
complement of <2 5 6|. The corresponding temperament is therefore the
no-threes version of hemiwuer, with 6/37 as a generator. Hemiwuer is in
fact a 37-temperament, and is interesting in 37 since 3 is so complex
in hemiwuer anyway. MOS of size 7 or 13 are interesting scale
possibilities.

> I can think of ones I like better, but both 37 and 38 (and for that
> matter 36, which you missed) have interesting possibilities. People
> tell me in jazz one often leaves out the fifth of a chord, and 37
> rather encourages doing that. I usually think of it in connection
> with porcupine, but 3125/3087, not a porcupine comma, is 3-free and
> pretty important to the no-threes harmony of 37.

I think the fifths of 37 are acceptable. A world better than
those of 15.

-Carl