On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:22:35PM -0400, Rob wrote:
alternative scales are. I'd bet even most of
that 1% would
still think Wendy Carlos' "Beauty in the Beast" was not "the
music of the perhaps not too distant future", but merely a
poorly recorded and out-of-tune record. (Speaking for myself,
that whole record was the closest thing I've experienced to "the
brown note".)
I think that, like any other alternative to the common Western 12 tone
scale, it takes time to get used to. If I'm not mistaken, that album
used a scale that divided the octave into 250+ notes.
One track on that album, "Just Imaginings" uses a 12-tone harmonic
scale modulated over the 12 ET-tones which makes 144 different notes
all together. Those of you who were at the LAC/C-base concert may have
noted that I shamelessly stole exactly this scale in my performance. ;)
Ciao
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