TY - JOUR
T1 - Widening unequal tempered microtonal pitch space for metaphoric and cognitive purposes with new prime number scales
AU - Dean, Roger T.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - I define a new set of microtonal scales based on the prime number series, and containing 41 to 91 pitches spread over the whole audible range, rather than subdividing the octave. I designed these scales for metaphorical purposes, and applied one within my performance piece Ubasuteyama (2008), written with Hazel Smith, for speaker, computer sound and digital processing. Simple timbres using partials bearing prime number ratios to their fundamental were also used to embody the scale. The scales and timbres will be amongst the subjects of cognitive studies of pitch combinations, of large and unbroken pitch intervals in melodies, and of the relation between scale and timbre.
AB - I define a new set of microtonal scales based on the prime number series, and containing 41 to 91 pitches spread over the whole audible range, rather than subdividing the octave. I designed these scales for metaphorical purposes, and applied one within my performance piece Ubasuteyama (2008), written with Hazel Smith, for speaker, computer sound and digital processing. Simple timbres using partials bearing prime number ratios to their fundamental were also used to embody the scale. The scales and timbres will be amongst the subjects of cognitive studies of pitch combinations, of large and unbroken pitch intervals in melodies, and of the relation between scale and timbre.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/551894
UR - http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/len/summary/v042/42.1.dean.html
M3 - Article
SN - 0024-094X
VL - 42
SP - 94
EP - 95
JO - Leonardo
JF - Leonardo
IS - 1
ER -