ThumMusings: Dynamic Tonality References

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Name: ThumMeister

Location: Austin, Texas, United States

In the late 1980’s, I tried to write insanely great code for the Mac and help others do so, too. When Windows swept through the Valley in 1991-2, I realized my great code would become worthless if the Mac platform sank. I became very interested in knowing how to spot winning platforms. Since Microsoft clearly knew how to make its platforms succeed, I joined its Systems Strategy Group. While designing and executing practical "technology evangelism" campaigns, I studied the theory behind the practice, eventually teaching mandatory "how-to" seminars to Microsoft's new evangelists. I left Microsoft in 2000, looking for a new industry to disrupt. When my wife quit her piano lessons after six months of diligent practice, saying that “music is just too hard,” I knew I’d found it. Hammering the Web relentlessly, I found a novel combination of old ideas which could make music dramatically easier to teach, learn, & play, more emotionally expressive, and expand the frontiers of tonality. This blog tells the story of my bringing those innovations to market.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Dynamic Tonality References

An online version of the Winter 2007 CMJ article introducing tuning invariance can be found on the CMJ’s website, here (the CMJ’s “one free article per issue:”)
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/comj.2007.31.4.15

A second article, comparing & contrasting various tuning invariant keyboard note-layouts using various metrics, was accepted by the Journal of Mathematics and Music (for publication in Spring 2008). The version submitted for peer review, which does not include changes made to reflect the excellent feedback provided by its reviewers, can be found here:
http://www.thummer.com/ThumTone/Tuning_Invariant_Layouts_Last_Draft.pdf

Both of these papers refine, and expand on, ideas first documented in this omnibus paper:
http://www.thummer.com/ThumTone/X_System.pdf

The name “X_System” was just a placeholder until we could think of something better. The new name is “Dynamic Tonality,” which embraces Dynamic Tuning, Dynamic Timbres, and Dynamic [Whatever].

The musical potential of Dynamic Tonality is summarized here:
http://www.thummer.com/blog/2007/12/going-somewhere.html

A (crude, buggy) Max/MSP-based synth demonstrating Dynamic Tonality, using the computer keyboard as its musical input device, can be found here:
http://www.thummer.com/blog/2007/06/dynamic-tuning-mark-i.html

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