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> with microtone tuning you reach a point where people will hear beats instead of distinct tones) That's a fantastic notion. Music consists of rhythm melody an
by galaxyLogic 5y ago
> with microtone tuning you reach a point where people will hear beats instead of distinct tones)
That's a fantastic notion. Music consists of rhythm melody and harmony. Harmony is created by relations of frequencies. But Rhythm itself IS a frequency, and there can be several overlapping rhythms in a piece of music. Melodic steps are also ratios between frequencies, but pieces of melody also repeat in a piece of music. So its all about frequencies and frequency of changing the frequencies. Something like that. The simple point is that rhythm is a frequency. A note is a frequency.
- lmm 5y ago"Beats" is a specific term of art. It's not related to rhythm.
- pessimizer 5y agoIt's a term of art describing the regular rhythmic peaks when discordant notes are played together.
- kaoD 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)
- tsegratis 5y agoTrue. Much of the above article's analysis of scales applies equally well to an analysis of rhythm, and the circle-bead diagrams for scales he uses are still the best pictograph method ive seen to get a visual impression of a beat over a single bar -- bar a.k.a. scale
- janstice 5y agoAny time you feel like you have too much money and spare time, you should get into modular synths - I think you might really dig it.
- galaxyLogic 5y agoPrecisely what I was thinking of, how you can start with a low frequency oscillator and turn it up, until it becomes a note. Rhythm turns into note. Multiple rhythms turn into harmony.