PORTABLE PURE TUNING

- modernization of Eivind Grovens project.

Portable pure tuning

Pure tuning is a tuning method not based on compromises in the intervals
between the tones. In order to play a keyboard instrument with pure
tuning, the Norwegian musicologist and composer Eivind Groven developed
an automatic switching system, which served as the basis for many
instruments that were built for him. The system still exists at the
Groven Institute for Pure Tuning at Ekeberg in Oslo.

The system has been modernized by NOTAM in collaboration with
musicologist David Loberg Code. NOTAM has also made a portable version,
making it possible for anyone with a computer to play with pure tuning
on a MIDI-keyboard. Everything that is required of software and sound
fonts can be downloaded <http://www.notam02.no/renstemming/index-e.html>
from this website, where one can also find information about the
principles of pure tuning as well as about Groven's work.

The website also contains music and sound examples, plus material that
can be used in education and other types of mediation.
You are welcome to start using this system, and please send us comments!

If you're interested in another Norwegian project, listen
<http://www.myspace.com/aleksanderbaath> to post-minimalist composer
Aleksander Baath's first experiment with just intonation.

Excellent. I've been looking for something like this for years - I
asked this list in 2004, and ever since have held the idea of creating
it myself someday. Lovely to find that someone else has done the work
for me, and has come up with a solution rather more elegant than what
I had in mind :)

-Patrick

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "aleksanderbaath" <aleksanderbaath@...>
wrote:
>
>
> - modernization of Eivind Grovens project.
>
> Portable pure tuning
>
> Pure tuning is a tuning method not based on compromises in the intervals
> between the tones. In order to play a keyboard instrument with pure
> tuning, the Norwegian musicologist and composer Eivind Groven developed
> an automatic switching system, which served as the basis for many
> instruments that were built for him. The system still exists at the
> Groven Institute for Pure Tuning at Ekeberg in Oslo.
>
> The system has been modernized by NOTAM in collaboration with
> musicologist David Loberg Code. NOTAM has also made a portable version,
> making it possible for anyone with a computer to play with pure tuning
> on a MIDI-keyboard. Everything that is required of software and sound
> fonts can be downloaded <http://www.notam02.no/renstemming/index-e.html>
> from this website, where one can also find information about the
> principles of pure tuning as well as about Groven's work.
>
> The website also contains music and sound examples, plus material that
> can be used in education and other types of mediation.
> You are welcome to start using this system, and please send us comments!
>
> If you're interested in another Norwegian project, listen
> <http://www.myspace.com/aleksanderbaath> to post-minimalist composer
> Aleksander Baath's first experiment with just intonation.
>