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This reminds me of AWK Music http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/ http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/
by sengork 9y ago
This reminds me of AWK Music http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/ http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/
- Bromskloss 9y ago> Using the fifth root gives five intervals for each octave, a pentatonic scale. Why five notes? It is really easy to make something that sounds good in the pentatonic scale and really hard for a pair of notes to be dissonant. Wait a minute! Is the five-note equal-division of the octave really one of those scales that "just sound good"? It's definitely not the same scale as the example he links to.
- anamexis 9y agoI tried this out using overtone, and it doesn't sound too terribly dissonant, but I agree, nothing like the major pentatonic scale linked in the video. (Also, overtone is fun! here's my repl session) (require '[clojure.math.numeric-tower :as math]) (use 'overtone.live) (def freqs (map #(* 440 (math/expt 2 (/ % 5))) (range 0 5))) (map #(demo (sin-osc %)) freqs) (map #(demo (sin-osc %)) (take 2 freqs)) (map #(demo (sin-osc %)) (take 3 freqs)) (map #(demo (sin-osc %)) (drop 2 freqs))
- boomlinde 9y agoThe pentatonic scale does not imply equal temperament between the five notes. The "good-sounding" pentatonic scales use very simple harmonic ratios, for example 1, 9/8, 5/4, 3/2 and 5/3 for the major pentatonic scale. In the equally tempered 12-note octave, these roughly correspond to the first, second, third, fifth and sixth. An equal division of an octave into five notes doesn't yield as harmonic results. That said, 5-EDO sounds good in my opinion. Not very harmonic, but somewhat resembles the scales used Gamelan music.
- navaati 9y agoFor those like me that want to hear it on a modern distribution: instead of redirecting to >/dev/dsp, pipe into |pacat. Works like a charm.