Saturday, August 17, 2013

Orson Tuning found by Wilson as early as 1997

This tuning was later called Orson. This page is excepted from of EXTENDED DIAGONALS AND VARIOUS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY RECURRENT SERIES.  Wilson would often mark those places where a recurrent sequence would be close to an Equal temperament scale with an arrow or an exclamation point if it was negligible as can be seen in the zig zag pattern. for more information on these body of scales, please look at http://anaphoria.com/wilsonmeru.html 


Monday, July 22, 2013

Largest Tolerance over Average

In this sketch of a letter to a peer, Wilson points out his preference for evaluating temperaments by finding largest tolerance in the scale as opposed to averaging out. This focus on he worse case scenario of tuning makes sense in that the averaging of the others will not diminsh what stands outs.

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Triplet Sets From The Basic Scale Tree.

TETRACHORAL TREE
TRIPLET SETS FROM THE SCALE TREE

This top diagram has been a part of the 'tres.pdf' document for years but it was only after finding the second in his notes do certain aspects become clear. Wilson has taken a trio of terms found in the scale tree and proceeds to multiply them to where they can be easily used to generate a scale tree contained within a 4/3. The beginning set is formed by an outer pair of fractions with the medient being the third term. The top diagram is an example of the first formula realized. In the bottom half we see he also adds up the diagonals which give us different terms to the classic fibonacci series generated by the classic tree. The method in which he determines what ratio each side converges on is unknown. It is possible he might have figured it out just by hand.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Stretched Pelog

Wilson's stretched Pelog tuning
































 Here is a Stretched Pelog Tuning found in one of Wilson's notebooks. While not dated, it occurs between pages dated from late 1993. It seems to go through areas that others later have explored.

Friday, November 30, 2012

George Secor's mapping of Partch's Scale

George Secor's mapping on Partch's scale drawn by Erv Wilson
While not added to the Archives directly, The document Mapping Of Partch's Scale on Secor's Keyboard has been added to Secor's section of the Main Library. http://anaphoria.com/secor.html I provide this page as it includes related documents of which this keyboard drawings by Wilson provide an open door to how Partch's scale could be expanded to 72 or even how this layout provides a uniform fingering of Partch's scale.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Constant Structures

Wilson's note on Constant Structures to John Chalmers 1965
Here is one of Wilson's earliest mention of the subject of Constant Structures. This page is apart of a document looking at 3 22 tones scales. Thanks to John Chalmers for making this available sometime back from his collection that is still being archived.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Meta-Ptolemy [Some Collected Papers}

Chain of 7 tone scales within the 24 tone array in Wilson's Meta-Ptolemy
Wilson collected his papers on Meta-Ptolemy together. This is what is done here with some added notes http://anaphoria.com/metaptolemy.pdf The scale offers an interesting chain of  7 tones scales not unlike those we find on various African Ballophones and offer an exploration into like territory.  Composer Stephen Taylor has used this scale here. http://www.thesonicsky.com/music/microtonal-cartoon-cues/