This is a podcast that plays microtonal music, which is music that exploits tuning systems that are different from the standard 12 tone to the octave scale that's dominated Western Music for the past 500 years. On each show, I'll say a few words, then play a piece composed by one of many modern microtonal composers. I hope that this exposure will help you understand a little more of the world between the 2:1 and the 1:1.

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Podcast1024: Maple Manytet by Bill Sethares

Podcast1024: Maple Manytet by Bill Sethares

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DATE : Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:56:00 GMT
Entered in Database : 2005-09-01 20:56:00
length : 5010169
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Today's episode is a work in progress by Bill Sethares. From his description:

I've been working on mapping procedures to take the partials (overtones) from a sound (the source) and move them somewhere else (the destination).The application is to create sounds (currently planning on using Kontakt [from Native Instruments]) that have spectra specially designed for particular tunings.As I've been playing with the algorithms, I have been "trying them out" on complete mixes and have some interesting sounding results... for these twopieces, the destination was set as all integer multiples of 65 Hz. So all of the "notes" are squished down to one big harmonic sound.

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