[sdiy] Request brain dump on balanced lines -- harmonic numbering

[John L Marshall]

That is my point exactly, 4:5:6 major triad, not too interesting. 4:5:6:7
major seventh starts to sound interesting. Those that freak out at freqeuncy
play C, E, G, B flat. Pretty basic.

Do you know about Morton Subotnick's software on CD "Making More Music"?
www.voyagerco.com


Take care,
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: "harrybissell" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
To: "John L Marshall" <john.l.marshall at gte.net>
Cc: "Peter Grenader" <pgrenader at mksound.com>; "Dave Krooshof"
<synthos at xs4all.nl>; <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>; "Glen"
<mclilith at ezwv.com>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Request brain dump on balanced lines -- harmonic
numbering


> OTOH synth-geeks...
>
> your brains are rotted from too many years of listening to resonant filter
> sweeps over every imaginable waveform. You can NO LONGER
> judge dissonance for yourselves.
>
> sh!t you probably think of Morton Subotnick as a favorite composer
> of lullabyes  ;^)
>
> H^)  harry    (who thinks the harmonic series starts to get a little
> non-harmonic
> at the seventh harmonic... lucky the amplitude is way down by then, huh
???  ;^)
>
> John L Marshall wrote:
>
> > But, of course. Try 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800 Hz sine waves
> > mixed together. Should sound like a major seventh chord ++ a bottom end.
> >
> > Major triad = 4:5:6
> >
> > Appreciation of more complex ratios, moving towards dissonance versus
> > Consonance (1:1) is at least in part learned.
> >
> > Cowboys generally don't like Thelonious
> >
> > Take care,
> > John
>
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Glen" <mclilith at ezwv.com>
> > To: "Peter Grenader" <pgrenader at mksound.com>; "Dave Krooshof"
> > <synthos at xs4all.nl>; <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: [sdiy] Request brain dump on balanced lines -- harmonic
> > numbering
> >
> > > At 06:18 AM 10/14/02 , Peter Grenader wrote:
> > > >on 10/14/02 4:27 AM, Dave Krooshof at synthos at xs4all.nl wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Huh?
> > > >> I, for one, hear frequency as a linear thing (bogus remark).
> > > >> Seriously, if you look at frequency as a linear scale, the above is
> > true.
> > > >> The frequencies, in Hertz, of a 100Hz tone are:
> > > >> 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 Hz etc.
> > > >
> > > >Guys and gal,
> > > >
> > > >Guys -
> > > >
> > > >Get out a frequency counter and run these frequencies together - the
> > result
> > > >will be quite dissonant and, outside of the first and second octaves,
not
> > > >part of the natural harmonic order of an overtone series.
> > >
> > > If you download this short (1/2 second) WAV file:
> > >
> > > http://users.ezwv.com/~mclilith/12345.wav
> > >
> > > You can hear a sample of 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500 Hz mixed together
in
> > > equal amounts. It doesn't sound dissonant to me.
> > >
> > > later,
> > > Glen Berry
>