Showing posts with label non octave scales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label non octave scales. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

A lucky accident concerning some non octave scales

 I happened upon two different Wilson documents which where quite separated but i had viewed recently enough to remember and realized their relationship which are  presented below.  First a letter which i assume was to Brian McLaren followed by the paper in Novaro referred to. The third is Wilson respelling of the two points in a scale tree type way that shows the relation of novaro's ideas to this series. It was lucky enough to stumble upon some time before and showed Erv how Novaro series can be generated as a Pascal triangle or in a series like this. He ran with it.
It also explains some of his other division of a tetrachord in a like fashion. The method shows a quite way of generating non octave structures.





Friday, February 25, 2011

The 30th root of 3 and the 44th root of 5 scales

Many of the extremely early papers we now have access to is due to John Chalmers.
 These two show a method not common today, but a line he abandoned. Possibly i am wrong but i don't think i have seen these particular scales mentioned since. Wilson prefers to do his innovations rooted in the past. It reflects his work with plants [which carry their history within] and the direction his tunings grow are informed by that knowledge .