This quick note written between other papers dated from 1996 shows the possibility of placing a the 13 limit with the harmonic and subharmonic series within a single 12 tone series. Placed at the distance of the 15 means that both series also have the 15th of their series. The idea of placing these two series apart like this can be seen on page 15 of http://anaphoria.com/earlylattices12-.pdf
That scale of Gary David illustrates 2 harmonic and 2 subharmonic 9 limit pentads with 12 tones. He was the first to point out the use of the 15 as a mirror point with 12 tone scales which here we can see is applied in a slightly different way.
A presentation of documents of Erv Wilson that don't lend themselves to a separate section in the archives yet are illuminating in their thought or implications. Often comprised of sketches or notes found among his papers
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Kornerup Notes
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http://anaphoria.com/kornerup.pdf |
http://anaphoria.com/library.html
It is not clear off hand what Wilson means here by 7/6 meantone. Comments are welcome on this point.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
A 22-tone Diaphonic Scale
This is a rare occurrence of Wilson presenting a Diaphonic Scale in its Harmonic over it Subharmonic form. Other Diaphonics scales are presented in the first section of the Wilson Archives and one can also find a comment of Diaphonic scales. The two pages have been edited placing the two charts together to allow them to be viewed easily at the same size.
A PDF of these pages is available here.
A PDF of these pages is available here.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
A Double Bosanquet Keyboard or the 2/7 keyboard
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I have to thank George Secor for posting this keyboard. It illustrates how one might introduce doubled rows [running bottom left to upper right] to accommodate such tunings as using the half fifth as a generator. Later Erv would relabel this keyboard the 2/7 keyboard as seen on page 8 of http://anaphoria.com/gralspectrum.pdf . One can see how then the generator lies in the half of 3/2 range. |
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Stephen Taylor's Sonic Sky
Nothing can thrill us more than announcing the launch of this web documentary on the work or Erv Wilson.
http://www.thesonicsky.com/
http://www.thesonicsky.com/
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Hobo Coffee
In a letter from Erv the other day, he found it important that the recipe for Hobo Coffee he learned from Partch be included in the Archive.
Black Coffee
(one) whole Cardamon seed.
Since Hobos could not carry milk the cardamon seed was the replacement
Black Coffee
(one) whole Cardamon seed.
Since Hobos could not carry milk the cardamon seed was the replacement
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