The next MicroFest concert is this Sunday May 6 8:00 pm in Claremont California. You can find directions and excerpts from the pieces to be performed here:...
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Keenan Pepper
keenan_pepper
May 1, 2012 11:54 pm
... Dang, if I had known about this a few weeks ago I might have arranged a trip! Oh well. Maybe I'll still go if I find some ridiculously cheap airfare or...
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William
bill_alves
May 2, 2012 7:53 pm
Go to http://archive.kpfk.org/, scroll down to Thursday April 26, Global Village with John Schneider. Streaming only, unfortunately, and the link will stay...
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Mario Pizarro
piaguiscale
May 8, 2012 3:21 am
Mike, I was working on correcting a few details of the progression but suddenly my daughter took me to a medical center; a long bone in my thorax was broken...
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Mario Pizarro
piaguiscale
May 8, 2012 7:40 pm
Keenan Pepper, Mike, I am ready to send you the corrected progression. I didn´t do it before because I have been three weeks in a medical center. In November...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
May 9, 2012 7:04 pm
Hi Mario, I'm terribly sorry to hear about your fall - I hope you're feeling better! Feel free to send the corrected progression when you have a chance. ...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
May 11, 2012 12:15 am
In a 2-val Fokker group built around a common 1-val, <val| \/ |2/1> tells you how many notes are in the scale. In a 3-val Fokker group built around a common...
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Petr PaĹ™Ăzek
petrparizek2000
May 11, 2012 3:52 pm
Hi tuners. After some offlist communication with Manuel, I'd like to let you know that the most recent version of Scala has a new command very appropriate for...
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genewardsmith
May 11, 2012 4:31 pm
... I don't see any explanation of where your interval pattern comes from, and how you know it works....
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Petr ParĂzek
petrparizek2000
May 11, 2012 9:08 pm
... If I want to make a scale of 7x+5y to an octave (without initially knowing whether x is larger than y or vice versa), I may easily convert the scale to ...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
May 13, 2012 3:06 am
When sets of notes are played, they can sometimes be aggregated into the sensation of a larger structure. An example of such a structure would be a "chord"...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
May 13, 2012 10:00 am
Had a huge discussion about this on IRC with Jason Conklin, Ryan Avella, Joel Taylor, Dustin Schallert, and Keenan Pepper near the end of it - check out some...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
May 13, 2012 6:15 pm
In my experience over this past year, the whole semaphore/godzilla thing has proven to be a consistent source of confusion amongst newcomers, which is mostly...
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John H. Chalmers
jhchalme
May 13, 2012 8:28 pm
This discussion is reminiscent of David Rothenberg's ideas about sufficient sets, proper subsets of improper scales, efficiency, etc. --John...
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genewardsmith
May 13, 2012 11:09 pm
... Sounds like a great idea. What should I do in general when there are these kinds of confusions?...
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Graham Breed
x31eq
May 14, 2012 7:03 pm
... I made that change. Here are the discrepancies I still have with the wiki: 7-limit rank two u'Cynder' in optimal as u'Mothra' (3, 12, -1, 1, 1, 0, 3) ...
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hstraub64
May 16, 2012 12:26 pm
Yesterday I had a short conversation with Julien Weiss, about, among other things, septimal intervals, such as the harmonic seventh 7/4 or the septimal whole...
The subject line really says it all, but I'll give background in case it helps clarify why I'm asking. I was goofing off again. I used Scala to create an...
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chrisvaisvil@...
vaisvil
May 16, 2012 8:08 pm
I'd like to try the 14 noye version if you have a scala file of it Chris * ... From: Jake Freivald <jdfreivald@...> Sender: tuning@yahoogroups.com Date:...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
May 16, 2012 8:08 pm
I believe it means that every specific interval class comes in three sizes. -Mike...
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Jake Freivald
jdfreivald
May 16, 2012 8:32 pm
Mike, Scala tells me that there are only two one-step interval sizes, which would seem to preclude having three classes for each interval. There are two...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
May 16, 2012 8:38 pm
... Bah, you're right, that was a typo on my part. The definition of n-DE we've been using is that each interval comes in "at most" n sizes, with the usual...
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Jake Freivald
jdfreivald
May 16, 2012 9:14 pm
... Mike, that makes sense. And I realized that I misspoke: When I said there were three thirds, I was thinking about what *I* consider thirds (major, neutral,...
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Herman Miller
teamousechan...
May 17, 2012 12:10 am
... I wouldn't count pelog/slendro in general, but the jegog scale gives the impression of being septimal, and Bill Alves for instance has used a septimal JI...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
May 17, 2012 5:37 pm
I could have sworn that I wrote this somewhere here before, but I can't find it. I'm posting it here to document the thing I just wrote on XA. Paul's (and...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
May 17, 2012 6:08 pm
BTW, one question is - how many lines do I pick if I'm going to notate this on a staff? While you can feel free to play around with Frankenstein-ish hybrid ...
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Keenan Pepper
keenan_pepper
May 18, 2012 12:05 am
... I'd argue against this. Yes it usually sounds like a "dominant seventh" F G B D (although I've heard ensembles that sound more like E G B D), but I don't...
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Vaughan McAlley
vaughanmcalley
May 18, 2012 7:45 am
... Does anyone have experience doing this? Is it just a case of “the guy on the seventh sings a little lower”? Vaughan ... That no one can deny. (It's...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
May 18, 2012 9:47 am
Chromatic scales are useful tools with useful musical properties. As an example, assume you're playing in extended meantone: meantone[12] is always sort of...
