FW: Hello ...

Forwarding a message from Jose Manuel Leon:

>Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:01:12 -0700
>From: Jose Manuel Leon <JLeon@cut.org>
>Subject: Hello ...
>
> ...
>
> I am a composer with classical training & background trying to make my way
> into computer music and research. I would certainly appreciate any help in
> terms of information about equipment, software, programming languages,
> good books, etc. I am specially interested in the concept of adaptive
> tuning, or tuning "on the fly".
> If the info I'm asking for is too basic for the list, by all means email
> me privately (please.)
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jose M. Leon
> jleon@cut.org

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At 00:31 2/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
>From: Mark Nowitzky <nowitzky@alum.mit.edu>
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>Forwarding a message from Jose Manuel Leon:
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>>Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:01:12 -0700
>>From: Jose Manuel Leon <JLeon@cut.org>
>>Subject: Hello ...
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I am a composer with classical training & background trying to make my way
>> into computer music and research. I would certainly appreciate any help in
>> terms of information about equipment, software, programming languages,
>> good books, etc. I am specially interested in the concept of adaptive
>> tuning, or tuning "on the fly".
>> If the info I'm asking for is too basic for the list, by all means email
>> me privately (please.)
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Jose M. Leon
>> jleon@cut.org
>
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Dear Jose Manuel Leon,

I have been trying to determine the underlying modal scales in Traditional
Turkish
Music for some time now. I realized in the beginning that the scales could
not be deterministic, that is, 'points' on the pitch axis. Instead, they
have to be non-deterministic scales in the form of 'distributions' along
the pitch axis. I have seen similar structures in Western Music. See the
work of Carl Seashore in 1930s at the University if Iowa alluding to
legendary virtuosos of non-fretted instruments, such as the violin,
deviating from the underlying scale by increments far beyond colorations
such as vibratos.

I am not sure what 'adaptive tuning' or 'tuning on the fly' means. It
'smells' like a non-deterministic tuning where the scale is kept 'natural'
in the sense of Pythagorean tuning at the 'local' level while using a
mathematically manageable scale, such as a well-tempered scale, at the
macro level.

Sincerely,
Dr. Can Akkoc
Alabama School of Mathematics and Science
1255 Dauphin Street
Mobile, AL 36604
USA

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