[piano improvisation] Golden Ratio Tuning (mp3)

[uncloned]

Mike (aka Spectra at traxinspace) made a tuning based on the Golden Ratio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

I performed an improvisation with it:

http://micro.soonlabel.com/golden/golden2.mp3

and then ran that improvisation through two more tunings

Lucy tuning: which is kind of unfair because Mike's tuning repeats every 13th note and Lucy tuning repeats at 12.

http://micro.soonlabel.com/golden/goldenlucy.mp3

and a 13 note subset of 31 notes per octave which fits better.

http://micro.soonlabel.com/golden/golden13of31.mp3

[psishock]

Listened.

[Sam_Zen]

Ah, the golden ratio...
Of course it could be implied in different ways, frequency of notes, the order of notes, and maybe more.
So, technically, why 31 notes per octave ? According to the ratio it should be 34..

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Listened.

Thanks Psi - :-)

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Ah, the golden ratio...
Of course it could be implied in different ways, frequency of notes, the order of notes, and maybe more.
So, technically, why 31 notes per octave ? According to the ratio it should be 34..

That's because several tuning schemes were used. The one that mentions a "a 13 note subset of 31 notes per octave" does not have anything to do the golden ratio.

Mike's golden ration tuning used the number (what is it 1.68... or something) in a way to bound his set of pitches. I think he tried using it as the octave and I midi recorded my performance of his tuning. That let me later run the same improvisation though the VSTi with the other two tunings.

[Sam_Zen]

Something ? How about my signature ..

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yeah that's right !

I think he used the inverse 1.68...

[Sam_Zen]

Yep, that's the unique thing about this number. The only one, if inversed, shows the same string of numbers after 0. or 1.