source file: m1379.txt
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:46:46 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: RE: Films with non-12 soundtracks

From: Paul Hahn <Paul-Hahn@library.wustl.edu>

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Loffink, John wrote:
> > From: Paul Hahn <Paul-Hahn@library.wustl.edu>
[snip]
> > feeding a basic drone through a filter that's set just below ringing,
> > then sweeping the filter up slowly so that it "brings out" successive
> > partials one after another.  The partials are of course in small integer
> > ratios to one another, so one could think of this as very rudimentary
> > JI.
> > 
> 	[Loffink, John]  I would not call this microtonal.  It is just the
> common filter sweep used by all "space music" artists.  The partials are
> harmonic, but the chords that underly them never are.

<shrug> I hadn't known it was that common.  I don't have much time to
listen to new music these days (or at least I haven't been); must do
something about that.

I agree that the one sound is not enough to make the composition
microtonal; however, it may help to get the sound of the just intervals
in people's ears.

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