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[Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to list csound -- a TEST

Date2008-02-29 17:20
FromMichael Gogins
Subject[Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to list csound -- a TEST
In the Csound examples directory there is a Python application that uses tunings derived from LaMonte Young to create some big drones, with a GUI that the user can use to tweak them. This may be somewhat related to your interests...

Welcome,
MIke

-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan McConnell 
>Sent: Feb 29, 2008 11:22 AM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Welcome to list csound -- a TEST
>
>On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 02:51:35PM +0000, J P Fitch wrote:
>> I suspect that is the Universit of Bath assuming that mailing lists are 
>> internal to the university.  I will see what I can do....
>	Any help you can provide will be much appreciated by this
>	Murrican, who last visited Bath in 1968.
>
>May I take this opportunity to describe my interests.  I am a retired
>mathematician, with a life-long interest in music; I play violin and
>viola.
>
>I have two main goals which motivate my interest in csound.
>
>1.  I am interested in exploring the different deviations from
>ordinary tempered tuning.  Quartet players are especially interested
>in the ability of string players to play "modifications" of e.g. a
>standard C major scale(one of the most difficult keys for a quartet!),
>in order to play even more consonantly than one can on e.g. a piano.
>I have put together some standard facts about this on my web site;
>see my .sig below.
>
>2.  In a quite different direction, I am also fascinated by Easley
>Blackwood's Microtonals, in which Mr B puts together differing pieces
>in "scales" where the octave is divided into not twelve parts as on
>our piano, but into 13, or 14, or 15 . . . or 21 or 22 parts.
>
>It seems to me that Csound is ideally suited to exploring both the
>above interests.
>
>I am a Csound newbie; I have learned how to create very simple tunes,
>in correct rhythm and pitch, stealing from various .orc and .sco files
>I've found, and using the "Alternative Csound Ref Manual", written, I
>believe, by Kevin Conder.
>
>I am also a Linux user, have been since 1993.
>
>I hope this self-introduction has not been too egoistic.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Alan
>
>-- 
>Alan McConnell :  http://patriot.net/users/alan
>    There are many good Impeachment sites; one of the best is:
>           www.waifllc.org
>
>
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Date2008-02-29 18:17
FromAlan McConnell
Subject[Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Welcome to list csound -- a TEST
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