source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 06:10:13 +0200 Subject: Life beyond JI and (INT)xtET From: Charles Lucy Various authors in TUNING Digest 1074 wrote: >Thre must be some composers on this forum who have structured >compositions in just tunings, or any non ET tuning for that matter. >Can anybody out there give an analysis? >Should we now head for another dead end, or even a set of dead ends? >Now is the time to pick up where they left off and continue with the >development of Western music on the track they had to abandon for lack of >technological prowess (or courage?). >On my Wave Blaster, major triads actually sound better >in 31tet than JI. This may be because of sample looping (could >someone explain this, please?), phase shifting vibrato or a bug in >my program. I am pleased to see that so many verbose tuning list subscribers are expressing the limitations of xtET and JI tuning systems. I found the same limitations when I played with them, which is why I eventually began looking further into other possibilities. >From my experience and that of others using LucyTuning during the past eleven years, the only limitation that we have found, is that modulating in a circle and arriving back in the original key [as one can in any (integer)tET system] is "forbidden" in this spiral system. You may argue with my interpretation of physics logic, philosophy, business practices, arrogance, or "ghostone" ideas; yet if you're looking for a practical microtuning system which is flexible, and can tackle all or any other tuning; We've already got it sussed! download the tech. specs etc. from http://www.wonderlandinorbit.com/projects/lullaby BTW the site is currently being upgraded and simplified for those without SchlockWave etc. Try it yourself (for old/new/classical/folk/experimental music) and enjoy! lucy Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 16 May 1997 08:43 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03451; Fri, 16 May 1997 08:43:53 +0200 Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 08:43:53 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03449 Received: (qmail 21754 invoked from network); 16 May 1997 06:43:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 May 1997 06:43:46 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu