#justintonation

[daveseidel]

Going to let this run all night and record it. #generative #modular #makenoise #bastl #noiseengineering #tubbutec #microtonal #justintonation #dronemusic https://www.instagram.com/p/B0crSJnlI_9/?igshid=4sw9c7saa59e

#generative #modular #makenoise #bastl #noiseengineering #tubbutec #microtonal #justintonation #dronemusic

[alexwand]

Podcast interview with Feona Lee Jones! Topics: Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, just intonation, my 81 Tao Songs project and more. Feona is a friend and fellow composer - check out her music here. Thanks for having me on your podcast, Feona!

#podcast #interview #harrypartch #feonaleejones #justintonation

[gudmundursteinn]

(gudmundursteinn)

#SoundCloud #music #gudmundursteinn #Experimental #Avantgarde #justintonation #animatednotation

[kammerelektronik]

Today, we would have been very happy to be able to show Kammerelekteronik 8: Geister fotografieren at the Molekül Festival in Cologne. Since this is not possible you have the opportunity (until Sunday) to watch the video of the performance from 2017. ⁠⠀ https://vimeo.com/346374602⁠⠀ 👻📷⠀⁠⠀ link also in the description.⁠⠀ ⁠ KAMMERELEKTRONIK⁠⠀ Geister fotografieren⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Konzertperformance für
Viola d'amore, Viola da gamba, Tanz, Elektronik, Licht⁠⠀ 
Roman Pfeifer (Konzept, Komposition) ⁠⠀ Annegret Mayer-Lindenberg (Viola d'amore) - @geigenbaukoeln
Carolina Martins (Viola da gamba)
Linda Nordström (Tanz) - @freyariette⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ "I want these people to believe that there is communication" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)⁠⠀ ⁠

#kammerelektronik #spiritphotography #konzertperformance #violadamore #violadagamba #tanz #ectoplasm #bandsalat #ghostphotography #seance #musiktheater #electronicmusic #paranormalinvestigation #shadowtheatre #experimentalmusic #musicalinstruments #justintonation #dronemusic #tapehead #staticnoise

[sonolumin]

Yup, it's that time😁 talking about the famous #schumannresonance and busting some myths! Full video on #youtube . . . #432hz #soundhealer #truetuning #justintonation #soundhealing101 #sacredfrequencies #meditationmusic #howto #thankyou https://www.instagram.com/p/B5KFbgOnb3g/?igshid=1illuaas9cu3l

#schumannresonance #youtube #432hz #soundhealer #truetuning #justintonation #soundhealing101 #sacredfrequencies #meditationmusic #howto #thankyou

[seanharold]

Minute two-ish (until my phone ran out of space), guitar only, from movement III of The Divine Liturgy, which @emsulk and I played together last weekend. . . . #concertmusic #8stringguitar #8string #classical #contemporaryclassical #justintonation #extendedtechniques

#contemporaryclassical #justintonation #concertmusic #extendedtechniques #8stringguitar #classical #8string

[shreeswifty-archipelago]

TEMPTATION DOGS THE SINNER 1996 VHS TRANSFER

David Govoni Moog & Tapes. Patrick Pagano Fretless Guitar in 17 Limit Just Intonation Meryl Malter Synthesizer Arturo Escamilla Drums Ben Ehrlich Organ

#JustIntonation #1996 #Minimalism #drone

[septimalquartertone-blog]

Blind date with natural tuning?

I’ve always felt a bit uneasy about the first movement of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. The situation didn’t improve, either, when in my teens I actually performed the piece as a viola player. I remember having never quite been able to tune my part during tutti rehearsals—an issue that seemed to magically disappear the moment I was alone practicing in my bedroom at home. Of course, the characteristic brightness of the piece’s opening owed itself to its heavy use of open strings, which I had always been told were problematic when tuning certain chords in some contexts. And while at that moment in my life it was never really explained to me why this was the case, I was able to at least figure out that it was probably the mixture of open strings and stopped notes that was causing me grief as I tried to find my place in something as simple [it seemed] as a C major harmony. 

There is a particularly awkward situation in the last measure of the excerpt above: the first violins are to play a double stop with the open E string while the violas play a double stop with a stopped E, intonating to the open G string. The issue was that if I tuned my stopped E to the cellos and basses (and of course my open G string), there was a horrible discrepancy in the octave with first violins’ open string, which was particularly sharper. Alternatively, if I tuned the E as a pure octave with the first violins, the chord seemed almost unbearably out of tune with the rest of the texture. What I didn’t know the time was that I had in fact been unknowingly introduced to an extremely important and special phenomenon of just intonation: the syntonic comma. 

Fast-forward a few years to the second semester of my first year at the University of Victoria. As students in Christopher Butterfield’s “Intro to Composition” class, we had the pleasure of meeting New Brunswick-born composer Marc Sabat who came to give some seminars on something called just intonation and give a few private lessons to the school’s composition students over the course of a week. In class, Marc not only presented on the compositional details of his duo Claudius Ptolemy (for violin and cello) but also led a revelatory practical masterclass demonstrating how to play in and, more importantly, listen for just intonation.

At the heart of Claudius Ptolemy is something called 5-limit just intonation: a manner of tuning intervals using (essentially) the first five partials of the harmonic series. The primary sonic characteristic of 5-limit just intonation is the just major third (harmonic ratio of 5:4). I realized that at 386 cents, this interval was noticeably lower than its Pythagorean (408 cents) and...gasp...equally tempered (400 cents) counterparts. Pythagorean intervals are generated by chaining fifths together (like the open strings of a stringed instrument) and widen the farther they get away from the starting pitch, so the E string of a violin is in fact ever so slightly sharper than even an equally tempered E. From that E, if you skip down 4 fifths (and correct the octave) you will end up a C that will sound as a Pythagorean major third with the E string (harmonic ratio of 81:64...much more complex)—this, incidentally, is also the tuning for the violas’ and cellos’ C string. Pythagorean major thirds are very wide and beat heavily! Interestingly, Marc informed us that string players naturally tend toward just thirds and sixths because of their stability and “sweetness,” which immediately reminded me of my experience with the Tchaikovsky Serenade. Since the viola part had a stopped E that allowed for adjustment, it appears that I intuitively was trying to intonate a stable sounding and simple major sonority (i.e. justly tuned), which was at odds with violins’ open E strings that resulted in a wide Pythagorean major third with the fundamental of the chord. Later that week, Marc had some free time to give a few private lessons. After learning that I played viola, he immediately grabbed a nearby violin (that happened to be among the various treasures and trinkets scattered around Christopher’s office) and we spent the rest of our hour together tuning just intervals of the first eleven harmonics. I remember how simply and elegantly he was able to describe the particular tonal quality associated with each harmonic ratio, especially 11:4, which he described as “grainy mustard” when compared to the “smooth mustard” of 10:4. Near the end of my lesson, Marc touched briefly on the Extended Helmholtz-Ellis accidentals that he co-developed to explicitly notate just intonation. At first, the thought of using a new system of accidentals seemed unnecessarily troublesome, but I quickly discovered just how intuitive they are for both composers and performers, and I’ve used them in my own music ever since.  You could say that that week was something of a revelation for me; little did I know that I had only just scratched the surface of the musical resources that just intonation had to offer. 

#justintonation #music #marcsabat #tchaikovsky #syntoniccomma #university #composition #contemporarymusic

[infpinkstrings]

Frame by Catherine Lamb

for bass recorder and violoncello in just intonation

composed in 2009 (edited 2013)

the recording was released on label Sacred Realism in 2014

this is an excerpt. 

#catherine lamb #frame #justintonation #minimal #female musicians #female composers #berlin #ratio #bass recorder #flute #sacred realism #violoncello

[daveseidel]

Preview of tomorrow's set at Outpost 186. Been listening to the new Sunn O))) album a fair bit lately.... #implicationorgan #metal #doomdrone #justintonation #csound #pisound https://www.instagram.com/p/BzgwdXqll0j/?igshid=mjbi17q0mkxh

#implicationorgan #metal #doomdrone #justintonation #csound #pisound

[gudmundursteinn]

(gudmundursteinn)

#SoundCloud #music #gudmundursteinn #Electronic #Avantgarde #justintonation #Ambient

[sonolumin]

I'm getting better at this. Which means less comedic material. I'll try to do worse next time... Anyway, new video is up on YouTube. Talking about just intonation this time. Definitely my favourite tuning system. Enjoy😁🙏 . #432hz #tuning #justintonation #soundhealer #sacredfrequencies #nadayoga #soundismedicine #meditationmusic #harmony #youtube #hashtagsareboring https://www.instagram.com/p/B4En3E0HO_A/?igshid=176u08x75f3i

#432hz #tuning #justintonation #soundhealer #sacredfrequencies #nadayoga #soundismedicine #meditationmusic #harmony #youtube #hashtagsareboring

[seanharold]

Minute one, guitar only, from movement III of The Divine Liturgy, which @emsulk and I played together last weekend. . . . #concertmusic #8stringguitar #8string #classical #contemporaryclassical #justintonation #extendedtechniques

#contemporaryclassical #extendedtechniques #8string #classical #concertmusic #8stringguitar #justintonation

[sonolumin]

This week's video is ready! Finally getting into some tuning talk👌 As always you will find it on YouTube. Click the link in my bio, then click on YouTube😉🙏 . #432hz #tuning #equaltemperament #howto #pythagoreantuning #justintonation #sacredfrequencies #soundhealing #cosmology #harmony #meditation #yoga #youtube #thankyou https://www.instagram.com/p/B3gjy3YH5T3/?igshid=4lgzh8b3sozv

#432hz #tuning #equaltemperament #howto #pythagoreantuning #justintonation #sacredfrequencies #soundhealing #cosmology #harmony #meditation #yoga #youtube #thankyou

[daveseidel]

A microtonal generative ambient patch.

#ambient #generative #justintonation #microtonal #modular #makenoise #metaslendro

[daveseidel]

Evolving a patch, letting it reveal itself. #makenoisemusic #makenoise #bastl #boredbrainmusic #redpandalab #noisereap #mutableinstruments #tubbutec #dreadbox #dronenmusic #hexany #dyads #justintonation https://www.instagram.com/p/B0pSpTolrhQ/?igshid=1d938yu67ekru

#makenoisemusic #makenoise #bastl #boredbrainmusic #redpandalab #noisereap #mutableinstruments #tubbutec #dreadbox #dronenmusic #hexany #dyads #justintonation