Discover Top Posts Tagged with #just intonation

Chromatic tetrachord idea:

1:1 - - - 7:6 - 5:4 - 4:3

What does it sound like? I have no idea, but I need to find out

#kinda neat how the major 3rd just slides in there and makes adjacent superparticular ratio semitones #music theory #i guess #just intonation

I'm still staggering around the house all dysfunctional and music-horny because of just intonation. JUST INTONATION. Where have you been all my life, my beloved? Why does this feel so rightttttttt I'm panicking with adoration

#it's like it TRIGGERS ALL MY NEURONS #or something?!??#in just the right way #it's so INTENSELY SATISFYING AND BEAUTIFUL #i keep struggling to frame this thing and my feelings about it in words #but i guess i'm not wordy enough? OH GOD #why is it so perfect. why are the feelings i have for music so much more passionate and intoxicating #than any feelings i've ever had about any human being #i want to perform absurd and glorious acts to try to gain its attention and win its love? but...#it has no attention. it has no love. it's just an odd facet of music theory #WHAT IS WRONG WITH MEEEEEEEEE but please don't fix it #just intonation #cosmo gyres #personal

Shasavistic Music Theory Guide

I've written out a bilingual (Japanese and English) guide that touches on a lot of the essentials of Shasavistic music theory (for diatonic music) here:

シャサフ式音楽理論の備忘録. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Besides screenshots of LΛMPLIGHT’s videos, here’s an overview of the chord diagram symbols that I made (based on the official Adobe Illustrator assets) in context.

#shasavistic music theory #just intonation #7 limit just intonation #11 limit just intonation #higher limit just intonation #shasavic #music theory

Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer, Thomas Feng, Isabelle O'Connell, Cory Smythe, Ning Yu, Virtutes Occultae (T. Brook)

I first heard this piece early yesterday, then promptly bought it as part of my Bandcamp Friday. The album is in "eighteen sections for six retuned pianos, each with a unique tuning in an extended 11-limit just intonation…The original version of Virtutes Occultae album was realized using physically-modeled digital pianos."

Once you start listening to it, you might see a resemblance to Conlon Nancarrow's compositions for player piano that would've been physically impossible for a human pianist to play.

And, mirabile dictu, six pianists were assembled to play Tyler Brook's Virtutes Occultae live, and it's quite brilliant to behold. Given the just intonation, multiple tunings, and the compositional style, the pianists have little but the pulse of each piece to hold them together. Again, similar to the way that Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano can only be navigated and negotiated by multiple very talented humans, as here by Thomas Adès and Gloria Cheng.