AXIS for Bohlen-Pierce Scale (Part 5)

[Voitcu]

Wait, I thought the 12 tones are derived from stacking 5ths of the 'Harmonic Series." C-G-D-A-E-B-F#-C#-G#-D#-A#-F, and finally back to C. This is the natural order of overtones and what places the #s where they are (hence the Circle of Fifths). They took a single note, and added its most perfect ratio (next to the octave), the fifth degree. And then proceeded in like manner from there, so I don't see where 3rds are needed to derive the 12 tones, thus my confusion about C Major being the model.

[miselaineeous]

@irglebleeben - John R pIerce was the executive director of Bells Research-Communications Principles Division in the development of the first commercial communications satellite, Telstar 1. In fact, although Arthur C. Clarke was the first to propose geostationary communications satellites, Pierce seems to have arrived at the idea independently and may have been the first to discuss unmanned communications satellites.

[theoberheim]

I know a couple of people that would give their eye teeth for one of these units. Same for the Moog Sonic Six in the back ground - that's awesome.

[miselaineeous]

@theoberheim - Oh awesome. If anyone REALLY wants one, have them go to w w w TheShapeOfMusic com and contact Peter Davies. :)

[miselaineeous]

@theoberheim Oh the Moog is awesome. People who used to work for Moog during that time called it the "Chronic Six". It's a pretty kooky synth.. very hard to correlate how you THINK you've programmed it to the sounds that come out. :P

[Watermark0n]

6:5:4 - it's just a complex fraction. It's a root note, played with another note that has a pitch 5/4 higher than the root, and another note with a pitch 6/4 higher than the root.

[veggieburgerfish]

thanks

[veggieburgerfish]

sorry but what do you mean by the ratio of 6:5:4

[miselaineeous]

Oh I see Watermark0n answered already.. Thanks Watermark0n.

[veggieburgerfish]

Thanks anyway though. And thanks for the videos; really interesting stuff. God I love the internet

[emilygclarinet]

Aww, Baloney's not in this one.

[miselaineeous]

IsTHAT why this video is rated only 4.5 stars? ;-)

[Envergure]

I for one am impressed that you bothered to try to get those two together. Too bad it didn't work out, though.

[miselaineeous]

I must say, that was heart wrenching. But it was a pleasure to become friends with Heinz Bohlen on that same trip. I think I mention in the video - we hardly talked about the scale - we mostly talked about chaos theory. lol.

[RaddNiner]

Whoa you teach at community college? Cool! I thought that you had to go somewhere like Dartmouth or Stanford to study computer music.

[miselaineeous]

That used to be the case! It used to be just Berklee College of Music, and then Stanford or Cal Arts for grad school. Now there are electronic music classes lots of places, but usually only 1 or 2.. not a whole program.

[RaddNiner]

I sat in on a seminar that Max Mathews gave at Dartmouth and saw his radio batton.

Cool Video! What are some good resources for learning about computer music?