AXIS for Bohlen-Pierce Scale (Part 5)

Listen to a song in the BP Scale here:
http://ziaspace.com/elaine/BP/BPmusic...

C-Thru Music has lent me this keyboard, called the AXIS, for a few months, and I am rearranging the keys for the Bohlen-Pierce Scale, a macrotuning based on a 3/1 frequency ratio, divided by 13 equal steps. See http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/BP for research on the BP Scale.

This particular AXIS toured with the Lionel Richie Band on loan, went to me, and in two weeks I will be flying to Boston to give this AXIS to the Berklee College of Music, Synthesis Department - namely to Dr. Boulanger who will use it for his classes and for the new microtonal club.

I teach Electronic Music at Scottsdale Community College. Come join the fun!

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[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

[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.

[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.

[veggieburgerfish]

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

[veggieburgerfish]

thanks

[miselaineeous]

Oh I see Watermark0n answered already.. Thanks Watermark0n.

[miselaineeous]

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