SV: Elliot sharp's --> mathematic processes cnanging your hearing

["Per Boysen" <per@boysen.se>]

> Från: Douglas Baldwin [mailto:coyotelk@optonline.net] 
> 
> Per Boysen wrote:
> > One thing he said was very interesting IMO: "It changes the way you 
> > hear music when you start working with mathematic processes". Can 
> > someone on this list tell about similar experiences?
> 
> Briefly: Draw the chromatic scale out like a twelve-pointed 
> circle - a dodecahedron - and note the locations of various 
> chords and scales on this circle. This simple geometric view 
> of intervals will quickly reveal numerous patterns in the 
> music you care to chart in this way, and in the construction 
> of music generally. Now I often "hear" these shapes and 
> associate the shapes with certain sounds. I am amazed that 
> this simple process is not used in music education. Douglas 
> Baldwin, coyote-at-large coyotelk@optonline.net

Very interesting, indeed! This system implies certain audible
characteristics of, for example, "triangular" scales and chords as well
as... he, he.. "squarish" songs ;-)

Best wishes

Per Boysen
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