Non-Octave Melancholic
01 February 2019 Filed in: Music | Tuning
Theory
Listen to Non-Octave Melancholic
This piece is an experiment using a tuning system Jacky Ligon showed me.
It is a 12 tone subset of 28ED3 (ratio 3:1 divided into 28 equal divisions):
This mode-of-limited-transposition uses a pattern where the large steps are 3 times the size of the small ones (L3 L3 s1).
Jacky Ligon wrote: “It's long been curious to me that so little work seems to have been done on divisions of 3; most people just stop at BP”.
Where BP stands for Bohlen-Pierce.
I agree with him saying that “the scale under consideration here has much more melodic variety than BP allows”.
Soundsources are Spectrasonics Omnisphere and Logic Pro X’s Ultrabeat.