source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 17:36:21 -0800 Subject: Re: pitch specification in CET From: Matt Nathan Bill Alves wrote: > However, if you're using a tuning system that does not replicate any > particular interval, how do you specify pitches? Do you just pick one pitch > as the starting point and number them? That seems rather awkward. You might do it in Hz, or, if triggered via MIDI, simply as note numbers, or, if on paper or screen, as vertical positions, etc. Color is a non-repeating parameter, yet painters seem able to handle it. In a way, repeating systems could be considered awkward in that you have paradoxically simultaneous difference and sameness which must be kept track of. For my someday pan-pitch sequencer, I intend to represent pitch vertically allowing continuous vertical placement and having no guidelines, or user-definable guidelines, relying instead on audible feedback as notes are placed in the score and moved to tune. I suspect that hand/eye/ear coordination would adapt to this, and the software would become a sort of score-becomes-instrument. I see no reason to keep the old ideas of note names, etc. when composing electronically using the entire pitch spectrum as a resource. Matt Nathan Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 06:12 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA29583; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 06:12:01 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA29628 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id VAA15167; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:10:26 -0800 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:10:26 -0800 Message-Id: <32FAC1FE.704A@ix.netcom.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu