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SV: Elliot sharp's --> mathematic processes cnanging your hearing
> Från: Douglas Baldwin [mailto:coyotelk@optonline.net]
>
> Per Boysen wrote:
> > One thing he said was very interesting IMO: "It changes the way you
> > hear music when you start working with mathematic processes". Can
> > someone on this list tell about similar experiences?
>
> Briefly: Draw the chromatic scale out like a twelve-pointed
> circle - a dodecahedron - and note the locations of various
> chords and scales on this circle. This simple geometric view
> of intervals will quickly reveal numerous patterns in the
> music you care to chart in this way, and in the construction
> of music generally. Now I often "hear" these shapes and
> associate the shapes with certain sounds. I am amazed that
> this simple process is not used in music education. Douglas
> Baldwin, coyote-at-large coyotelk@optonline.net
Very interesting, indeed! This system implies certain audible
characteristics of, for example, "triangular" scales and chords as well
as... he, he.. "squarish" songs ;-)
Best wishes
Per Boysen
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