Doepfer

Hail, Anton!

(This post is gonna be a hodge-podge.  Begging forgiveness in  
advance.  You're not the only one with verbal diarrhea, Morbs.)

I read your post and was remembering a link someone had posted to a  
microtonal site in the last year or so.   I waited for them to help  
you.  Nothing.

It seems you were the one in the first place!

Your post is awesome!  I thirst for knowledge.  Maybe the right word  
is lust.
I've read John Backus' book THE ACOUSTICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393090965/ 
qid=1131198835/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-8390523-9984722? 
v=glance&s=books&n=507846
and found it fascinating.  (If you haven't read it, you will too!)   
Now I find I must absorb Sethares' book!

Knowing you may also have trod in these other footsteps as well, may  
I recommend
Wendy Carlos' CD's, BEAUTY IN THE BEAST   and   TALES OF HEAVEN & HELL.
She uses microtonal to advantage.

I suppose it's obvious to you and everyone else that merely  
attenuating keyboard voltage will give you octaves of any number of  
steps you wish.  I recall reading somewhere that there are two other  
mathematical divisions of an octave that create consonance -  
something like 29 and 36 steps.  Do you know what those actual  
divisions may be?   Thanking in advance.

If you've been around a while - and I think you have - you may recall  
my supplication for a selective quantizer.  Without going into  
detail, I'll just attach the jpg in the middle of this post.


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Permit me to say that your quantizer suggestion goes even further and  
would make an exciting module.  I don't know many Roger would sell -  
we'd probably have to get a second mortgage on our first-born to buy  
one.

Let me wrap this up with a bizarre, but true tale.
I poked deeply into Sethares' site and found a sound bite for Chapter  
8 A BELL, A ROCK, A CRYSTAL: DUET FOR MORPHINE AND CYMBAL.

Let me set the stage.  I understand consonance and dissonance.  I  
knew what to expect.
My home stereo connection is kaput.  I had to play it on my computer  
with the volume cranked up.  I have a head cold.  My hearing is  
f*cked up.  Everything sounds like it is resonating in a pipe the  
wrong size.

So I started the bite.  Then our home phone started to ring with its  
chintzy beeping of Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King.

All I can say is, Lay off the cattle prod, Morby!

sfrules



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