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Xenharmonic Music
Xenharmonic music is music that uses a tuning system that is unlike the 12-tone equal temperament scale. It was named by Ivor Darreg, from the Greek '' xenos'' (Greek ξένος) meaning both ''foreign'' and ''hospitable''. He stated that it was "intended to include just intonation and such temperaments as the 5-, 7-, and 11-tone, along with the higher-numbered really-microtonal systems as far as one wishes to go." John Chalmers, author of ''Divisions of the Tetrachord'', wrote, "The converse of this definition is that music which can be performed in 12-tone equal temperament without significant loss of its identity is not truly ''microtonal''." Thus xenharmonic music may be distinguished from twelve-tone equal temperament, as well as use of intonation and equal temperaments, by the use of unfamiliar intervals, harmonies, and timbres. Theorists other than Chalmers consider xenharmonic and non-xenharmonic to be subjective. Edward Foote, in his program notes for ''6 degrees of to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xenharmonic Versus Microtonal P4
Xenharmonic music is music that uses a musical tuning, tuning system that is unlike the Equal temperament#Twelve-tone equal temperament, 12-tone equal temperament scale. It was named by Ivor Darreg, from the Greek language, Greek ''Xenos (Greek), xenos'' (Greek language, Greek ξένος) meaning both ''foreign'' and ''hospitable''. He stated that it was "intended to include just intonation and such Musical temperament, temperaments as the 5-, 7-, and 11-tone, along with the higher-numbered really-microtonal systems as far as one wishes to go." John Chalmers, author of ''Divisions of the Tetrachord'', wrote, "The converse of this definition is that music which can be performed in 12-tone equal temperament without significant loss of its identity is not truly ''microtonal''." Thus xenharmonic music may be distinguished from twelve-tone equal temperament, as well as use of intonation and equal temperaments, by the use of unfamiliar intervals, harmonies, and timbres. Theorists other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Harrison
Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter, and creator of unique musical instruments. Harrison initially wrote in a dissonant, ultramodernist style similar to his former teacher and contemporary, Henry Cowell, but later moved toward incorporating elements of non-Western cultures into his work. Notable examples include a number of pieces written for Javanese style gamelan instruments, inspired after studying with noted gamelan musician Kanjeng Notoprojo in Indonesia. Harrison would create his own musical ensembles and instruments with his partner, William Colvig, who are now both considered founders of the American gamelan movement and world music; along with composers Harry Partch and Claude Vivier, and ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee. The majority of Harrison's works and custom instruments are written for just intonation rather than the more widespread equal temperament, making him one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos; November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer known for electronic music and film scores. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at Brown University before moving to New York City in 1962 to study music composition at Columbia University. Studying and working with various electronic musicians and technicians at the city's Computer Music Center, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, she helped in the development of the Moog synthesizer, Robert Moog's first commercially available keyboard instrument. Carlos came to prominence with ''Switched-On Bach'' (1968), an album of music by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on a Moog synthesizer, which helped popularize its use in the 1970s and won her three Grammy Awards. Its commercial success led to several more albums, including further synthesized classical music adaptations, and experimental music, experimental and ambient music. She composed the score to two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elodie Lauten
Elodie Lauten (October 20, 1950 – June 3, 2014) was a French-born American composer described as postminimalist or a microtonalist. Biography Born in Paris, France as Genevieve Schecroun, and educated in Paris at the Lycée Claude Monet, the Conservatoire (piano) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques.Obituary nytimes.com; accessed March 4, 2015. Her father was Errol Parker (né Raphaël Schecroun), an n-born jazz musician; her mother was a classical pianist. Lauten was classically trained as a pianist since age 7. She contributed to the early punk- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Gosfield
Annie Gosfield (born September 11, 1960, in Philadelphia) is a New-York-based composer who works on the boundaries between notated and improvised music, electronic and acoustic sounds, refined timbres and noise. She composes for others and performs with her own group, taking her music to festivals, factories, clubs, art spaces and concert halls. Much of her work combines acoustic instruments with electronic sounds, incorporating unusual sources such as satellite sounds, machine sounds, detuned or out-of-tune samples and industrial noises. Her work often contains improvisation and frequently uses extended techniques and/or altered musical instruments. She won a 2012 Berlin Prize. Work Gosfield's work includes large-scale compositions, opera, orchestral work, chamber music, electronic music, video projects, and music for dance. She uses traditional notation, improvisation and extended techniques to explore relationships between music and noise. Her music is often inspired by non- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logarithms
In mathematics, the logarithm of a number is the exponent by which another fixed value, the base, must be raised to produce that number. For example, the logarithm of to base is , because is to the rd power: . More generally, if , then is the logarithm of to base , written , so . As a single-variable function, the logarithm to base is the inverse of exponentiation with base . The logarithm base is called the ''decimal'' or ''common'' logarithm and is commonly used in science and engineering. The ''natural'' logarithm has the number as its base; its use is widespread in mathematics and physics because of its very simple derivative. The ''binary'' logarithm uses base and is widely used in computer science, information theory, music theory, and photography. When the base is unambiguous from the context or irrelevant it is often omitted, and the logarithm is written . Logarithms were introduced by John Napier in 1614 as a means of simplifying calculations. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Apples In Stereo
The Apples in Stereo are an American indie rock band associated with The Elephant 6 Recording Company, Elephant 6 Collective. The band is largely the project of lead vocalist/guitarist/producer Robert Schneider, who writes the majority of the band's music and lyrics. Currently, the Apples in Stereo also includes longstanding members John Hill (musician), John Hill (rhythm guitar) and Eric Allen (musician), Eric Allen (bass), as well as more recent members John Dufilho (drums), John Ferguson (musician), John Ferguson (keyboards), and Ben Phelan (keyboards/guitar/trumpet). The band's sound draws comparisons to the psychedelic rock of The Beatles and The Beach Boys during the 1960s, as well as to bands such as Electric Light Orchestra and Pavement (band), Pavement, and also draws from Lo-fi music, lo-fi, garage rock, New wave music, new wave, Rhythm and blues, R&B, bubblegum pop, power pop, punk rock, punk, electro-pop and experimental music. The band is also well known for their a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Schneider
Robert Peter Schneider (born March 9, 1971) is an American musician and mathematician. He is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer of rock/pop band the Apples in Stereo and has produced and performed on albums by Neutral Milk Hotel, the Olivia Tremor Control, the Minders and a number of other psychedelic and indie rock bands, as well as by Yoko Ono and Cornelius. Schneider co-founded the Elephant 6 Recording Company in 1992. He received a PhD in mathematics from Emory University in 2018 (doctoral advisor Ken Ono). , he is an assistant professor of mathematical sciences at Michigan Technological University specializing in number theory and combinatorics, particularly the theory of integer partitions and analytic number theory. Life and career Early life After spending the first six years of his life in Cape Town, South Africa, Robert Schneider's family moved to Ruston, Louisiana, where his father had taken a job teaching architecture at Louisian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-Pythagorean Scale
Robert Peter Schneider (born March 9, 1971) is an American musician and mathematician. He is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer of rock/pop band the Apples in Stereo and has produced and performed on albums by Neutral Milk Hotel, the Olivia Tremor Control, the Minders and a number of other psychedelic and indie rock bands, as well as by Yoko Ono and Cornelius. Schneider co-founded the Elephant 6 Recording Company in 1992. He received a PhD in mathematics from Emory University in 2018 (doctoral advisor Ken Ono). , he is an assistant professor of mathematical sciences at Michigan Technological University specializing in number theory and combinatorics, particularly the theory of integer partitions and analytic number theory. Life and career Early life After spending the first six years of his life in Cape Town, South Africa, Robert Schneider's family moved to Ruston, Louisiana, where his father had taken a job teaching architecture at Louisiana Tech Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Walker (composer)
Elaine Walker is a composer, electronic musician, mathematician, and author born in 1969. She wrote a physics/philosophy book, “Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity” (2016). She specializes in microtonal music, including founding ZIA, an all electronic band, and performing with D.D.T. She has performed with Number Sine.Homepage , ''ZIASpace.com''. She describes: "I compose microtonal music strictly by ear and leave it to others to analyze, so you won't find ratios or mathematics here." Life Raised in southern New Mexico "by two loving mathematicians, Elaine grew to love the desert in all of its glory and wide openness". Her father was Dr. Elbert A. Walker. Walker has a Music |
George De La Warr
George Walter de la Warr (19 August 1904 – 31 March 1969) was an English civil engineer and a pioneer in the field of radionics. In 1953, he resigned from his engineering position with Oxfordshire County Council to work within the discredited field of radionics. His devices were denounced by medical experts. Career According to Langston Day's 1956 book ''New Worlds Beyond the Atom'', written in collaboration with de la Warr, de la Warr passed the Associate Membership examination of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers by the age of 20 and three years later, passed the examination for the Institution of Civil Engineers. He then held various engineering positions before becoming chief engineering assistant for the Oxfordshire County Council, a position he held for 16 years. De la Warr was influenced by the devices of Ruth B. Drown and Albert Abrams. De la Warr invented devices that he said could identify symptoms such as "toxins", "fracture", and "secretion imbalance". He a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radionics
Radionics—also called electromagnetic therapy (EMT) and the Abrams method—is a form of alternative medicine that claims that disease can be diagnosed and treated by applying electromagnetic radiation (EMR), such as radio waves, to the body from an electrically powered device. It is similar to magnet therapy, which also applies EMR to the body but uses a magnet that generates a static electromagnetic field. The concept behind radionics originated with two books published by American physician Albert Abrams in 1909 and 1910. Over the next decade, Abrams became a millionaire by leasing EMT machines, which he designed himself. This so-called treatment contradicts the principles of physics and biology and therefore is widely considered pseudoscientific. The United States Food and Drug Administration does not recognize any legitimate medical use for radionic devices.Fishbein, Morris, ''The New Medical Follies'' (1927) Boni and Liverlight, New York, pp. 39–41. Several syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
