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AXIS keyboard demo for BP Scale (Part 1)

Listen to a song in the BP Scale here: http://www.ziaspace.com/ela... C-Thru Music has lent me this keyboard, called the AXIS, for a few months, and I am rearranging the keys for the Bohlen-Pierc...  
 
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planktonite (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Doesn't look like you have a wedding ring on...must be a lot of stupid men in your area! Looks and Brains...one in a million!
xguitarxchan (5 months ago) Show Hide
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does your "keyboard" double as a tekken 3 controller? i bet you could so a bunch of awesome combos with that many buttons.
styx49 (7 months ago) Show Hide
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I'm sure your computer never has any mouse problems ;)
zeekle (1 year ago) Show Hide
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To clarify: when I play a C, I can actually hear the E and G in the vibrating string but I have to listen much closer to hear even more notes that are in a single string, many microtonal. I found 12 but this could be because I was in a Western scale paradigm when I did the test. I used a No.2 pencil eraser touching all along the length of a continuously plucked guitar string and 12 notes clearly exist in one string: M3, P5 and 8va are certainly Western, more may be but others are clearly not.
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Western music is based off of both the ratios of the frequencies present in harmonics to the fundamental, as well as the ergonomics of musical interfaces. Because of one dimensional keyboards like the piano 12 tone equal temperament is prominent because it is the easiest for one dimensional playing surfaces while still getting close enough to those microtonal notes you hear in the harmonics. Those intervals you hear are actually the "best" ones while the ones we use are "imperfect."
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So not even the fifth we use is the exact perfect fifth, it's about two cents off, nor is the third, its almost 15 cents off. They just well approximate the overtones you hear in your harmonic instruments. The only perfect interval we use is the octave.
zeekle (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Thanks, JLMoriat - that gets me all excited again about this stuff. What could be more insightful to the laws of nature than a single vibrating string? Along comes this thing called "music" that has this mysterious ability to influence our emotional state - and anyone who has gotten this close to music knows instinctively that there's great undiscovered scientific insight right there, right under our noses in a single vibrating string. i wish our number system was 12 base instead of 10.
zeekle (1 year ago) Show Hide
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I could be wrong but I don't think the Western scale was based off of a Maj Triad, I'm pretty sure it was based off of the harmonics that exist in a single vibrating string i.e. guitar string 5th fret=8va, 7th fret=Perfect 5th, 9th fret=Major 3rd.Every note has a Western Major triad in it.On a single string, I found a lot more notes than Pythagoras did (some microtonal).Have fun, I saw all your vids and it seems like you're searching for something totally new-I hope you find it-i didn't lol :S
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As a music minor at SCSU (1972-1976) in New Haven CT, I took a course called "experimental" music. The content was very similar to your discussion.

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the axis B and P scale...? what...? now I have to rethink everything... this is amazing stuff...... thank you mis.

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