source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:32:58 +0100 Subject: Tuning into the FUTURE. From: Charles Lucy Next step in tuning??? D a v i d B e a r d s l e y .. dmb5561719@aol.com and others seem to have again fallen into the "What's the best tuning system for the future?" conundrum. I read calls for reversion to the old Just Intonation model, yet see little JUSTification except the traditional, and "muddle-headed" quest for non-beating intervals. David's impatience could be the result of "barking up the wrong tree". Instead of looking for only a tuning system, let's consider this as a quest for a complete system, method, or paradigm for mapping what Erv Wilson poetically calls "tone space". What are the requirements for such a system for the future? I propose that they should: (Pitch Mapping) * be applicable to all and every musical instrument, sound, and previous music. * be able to map any interval to known levels of precision. * Avoid any bias towards any particular integer or rational number sequence (Harmony, Scales, and Coding) * allow any number of conceivable intervals and arrange additions in patterns of progressively increasing dissonance. * be able to map scales in an unambiguous way, which provides clear codification, analysis and synthesis; and plot consonance and dissonance in a simple way. (Notation) * enable any music from the past, as well as the future, to be interpreted, emulated, represented and played. * be clear, unambiguous and, evolving from traditional notation, which also express "harmonic" structure. (Conversion) * provide a clear, logical, and easy route for novices to evolve and progress beyond traditional musical education, notation, instruments,12tET, and other systems. * easily reprocess existing midi files. (Time) * provide a compatible and related rhythm and tempo system. (Color coding) * contain a practical pitch to color system, for synaesthetic visual representation, for immediate scale, key, and pitch reference and training. (Geometry) * move beyond Platonic solids to spherical conceptualisation. I believe that I have found such a universal system, with large (L) and small (s) intervals, derived from pi; and am continuing to develop its potential. If you'd like to know more, please check out the LucyTuning websites starting from http://www.ilhawaii.net/~lucy. You may argue with my failure to conform to classical acoustic theory, yet can anyone honestly claim that any other tuning system can fulfill ALL these requirements? BTW Any webmasters wanting relevant URL link exchanges, please EMail me (lucy@hour.com) with your URL and any suggestions of which page you would like me to link it from, and to. http://www.ilhawaii.net/~lucy Update on activities: Having discovered that LucyTuned Lullabies work, we are now exploring the use of LucyTuning to further influence listeners decisions, and beginning to develop the use of an enhanced technology for even more adventuruous commercial applications. Stay Tuned! lucy@hour.com Monday 8th Dec 1997. London UK. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Polychroni Moniodis Subject: Re: Arabic Tunings PostedDate: 08-12-97 21:56:12 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 08-12-97 21:54:22-08-12-97 21:54:23,08-12-97 21:54:10-08-12-97 21:54:10 DeliveredDate: 08-12-97 21:54:10 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256567.0072D453; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 21:54:14 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA09944; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 21:56:12 +0100 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 21:56:12 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA09937 Received: (qmail 28305 invoked from network); 8 Dec 1997 12:56:04 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Dec 1997 12:56:04 -0800 Message-Id: <01IQXQEMGZMK94EJMV@ONLINE.EMICH.EDU> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu