RE: A = 440 Hz OR 432 Hz?

[Sergio Girardi <simpliflying@gmail.com>]

mmm. From the bottom of my ignorance I still can't understand your words as only someone who has practical empiric experience with loopers and music could.

Can you explain a bit more? It seems interesting.

Ser

> From: benoitruelle@yahoo.fr
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 10:43:30 +0100
> Subject: Re: A = 440 Hz OR 432 Hz?
>
> Hello, fun thread !
>
> I use sometimes A=441 Hz when doing synthesis.
> Just because it makes a perfect 100 samples cycle when using 44.100
> (CD) sampling frequency.
> Easier to have a perfect looping single cycle ;-)
>
> Ben
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> mark francombe <markfrancombe@gmail.com> wrote:
> (08/11/2012 10:12)
>
> > ok fair point... "seems" did it.
> >
> > Sent from my (advertisement removed)
> >
> > On 8 Nov 2012, at 10:07, Sergio Girardi <simpliflying@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You mean that you got fat before stopping or after stopping with 432? :)
> > BTW you just said that it is a democracy and people can say if they do not
> > agree with a statement, which is right, and I would add that it could be
> > interesting to just say "in my opinion" and say what one thinks, instead of
> > trying to deny what the other thinks.
> > In this case for example he wrote "I've noticed that 440 SEEMS to", not
> > that 440 IS mind. Personal impression. Undeniable. No universal statement.
> > So, why to even bother contradicting it? He noticed, you didn't...
> > :)
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > From: markfrancombe@gmail.com
> > Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 07:37:44 +0100
> > Subject: Re: A = 440 Hz OR 432 Hz?
> > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> >
> > On 8 Nov 2012, at 03:55, Jack Cattedra <the_beat_conductor@hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > every one of our informed opinions counts. :)
> >
> >
> > Why? discussion on this list is a democracy, therfore one is allowed to
> > hold a counter opinion, if you think someones augument or opinion, informed
> > or not, is flawed its perfectly ok to say so!
> >
> > It's not like we have to handcuff ourselves to any one way of creating
> > music.
> >
> >
> > Of course not, you wont find a more experimental group if musicians on the
> > planet!
> >
> > With further experimentation, I've noticed that 440 Hz seems to bring the
> > music to the mind and 432 seems to bring it more to the heart.
> >
> >
> > Oh really, you think that music that is 8 cents different will do that?
> > What happens if you play 100 cents out? Oh yeah... a new key... Cant say
> > Ive been feeling those shifts into heart music when I operate My whammy bar.
> >
> >
> > I think all of this is useful depending on what kind of music you are
> > creating.
> >
> >
> > Yeah... of course... try stuff out, Why not, and sure... we all know that
> > tunings DO make you Sound different, but to sweepingly say that 440 is mind
> > and 432 is heart is nonsensical, for YOU maybe... on THAT day, with those
> > notes your chose to play.
> >
> > Me? I stopped tuning to 432 because it made me hungry, and so I got fat!
> >
> > Mark
>