source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 10:57:35 -0700 Subject: RE: NYC 6/8/96: Lamonte Young and the Fo From: Johnny Reinhard How about summation tones? Together summation and difference tones are combination tones. When in synch regarding wave form, at high amplitude and with substantial duration, combination tones take on the effective status of full musical tones and generate further combinations. This chain reaction is responsible for the "harmonic clouds" of La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano. Johnny Reinhard Director American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@ios.com On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, PAULE wrote: > > John Maxwell Hobbs wrote: > > >That's probably > >what you're hearing that's not subject to the attack and release > > Nah, the tones I heard were higher than the fundamentals of the notes > LaMonte was playing, so they couldn't have been difference tones. They were > very sine-wavy; have to have been overtones. > > Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 23:59 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA06846; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 14:59:30 -0700 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 14:59:30 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu