BP2010 Max Mathews Lecture (1of3)

MATHEWS: THE EARLY HISTORY FROM 1982 TO 1988 OF JOHN PIERCES EVOLUTION OF HIS VERSION OF THE BOHLEN-PIERCE SCALE.

Abstract:

Most of what I plan to cover comes from two publicationsTheoretical and experimental explorations of the Bohlen-Pierce scale J. Acoust. Soc. Am 84(4) October 1988 and Intonation sensitivity for traditional and non traditional chords J. Acoust. Soc. Am 75(3), March 1984.

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See http://www.huygens-fokker.org/bpsite/ for a history of the Bohlen-Pierce Scale.

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Max Vernon Mathews (*November 13, 1926, in Columbus, Nebraska) is a pioneer in the world of computer music. He studied electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a Sc.D. in 1954. Working at Bell Labs, Mathews wrote MUSIC, the first widely-used program for sound generation, in 1957. For the rest of the century, he continued as a leader in digital audio research, synthesis, and human-computer interaction as it pertains to music performance.

More: http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org/participants/max-mathews

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Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston 2010

There has been enough interest lately in the Bohlen-Pierce Scale - a macrotonal musical tuning system based on a 3/1 frame (three times the frequency, called a "tritave", as opposed to the 2/1 "octave") divided by 13 equal steps - that an entire symposium was organized in Boston. It included the support of three major music educational institutions - Berklee College of Music, the Goethe Institute and New England Conservatory. Heinz Bohlen and Max Mathews skyped in at various times. It included three full days of talks and three full nights of music. I will type more information here soon and upload more videos as I get them digitized. Professional cameras were covering the entire symposium. Here I will just upload what I captured on my own camera. This symposium was very overwhelming for me, thinking I was among just a handful of interested BP fans. There were at least 40 people actively involved in this event and many more in the audience! See also: http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org/schedule and http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org/concert-1

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[j8zero2]

Amazing Max Mathews.