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Jon Southwood wrote: > > Melodically, you'd probably want to reduce the ratios to within an > octave or at least within a couple octaves. This is similar to a > technique used by any number of composers working in Just Intonation: > 7:1 becomes 7:4 so that it falls between 1:1 and 2:1 (or 1/1 and 2/1). > It'd take me a lot of practice on my fretless guitar to be able to > reliably play intervals of 13/11 or 11/7 or (gulp) 89/47. This is > where Csound or other computer music programs become invaluable. You could just buy a cheap hardware synth. That's how we did it in the old days. Or tune the open strings of a guitar with a tuner, loop it and play along with the fretless. And suddenly it's not a case of a lot of practice, but a little experience. 89/47 is 1105.373 cents. Not too far from a 1100 cent 12tet M7th. I used to do MIDI composition that had loads of ratios and rhythms, I stopped that when I started getting performances. I started getting minimal when the performances sucked and I started performing with a guitar controller and microtonal synth letting go of the rhythmic possibilities. Tuning with ratios makes a better connection with the listener. >-- >* David Beardsley >* microtonal guitar >* http://biink.com/db >