source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 06:13:14 -0700 Subject: Re: Non-octave scales; monkeys banging o From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> > but near-octaves will take on the character of equivalence I can't vouch for having experienced this effect, except through the benefit of Bill Sethares' 88CET-optimized timbres. Other people experimenting with 88CET have found its off-octaves to be more usable musically than I have. I pretty much just plain avoid them, but I can imagine how somebody can find use for them in a few cases. But, except through Bill's mapped timbres, I haven't heard of the octave-duplicating effect having survived the extremity of detuning that 88CET imposes. Any perspective from you 88CET experimenters (with near-harmonic timbres)? Warren, John P., Paul F.? > Whether this means an increase in harmonic variety, I don't know, because > (octave) inversions and extensions are very valuable in organizing harmonies > into coherent progressions. Perhaps it's an increase in variety, but at the > expense of unity. My composition entitled "Night and Day" (which has received mixed reviews), pitted very traditional harmony in 88CET against its more native nontraditional resources. The traditional harmony was exceptionally difficult to realize because only a handful of the voicings that you'd expect to be freely available through octave-displacement, were actually available. Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 17:44 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA22675; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 08:44:39 -0700 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 08:44:39 -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