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Very off topic from the original article, but the entire history of why we even used 440hz at all as opposed to 432, 455 (Beethoven), 415 (Baroque era), and eve
by quartesixte 5y ago
Very off topic from the original article, but the entire history of why we even used 440hz at all as opposed to 432, 455 (Beethoven), 415 (Baroque era), and everything else everywhere else is so fascinating to me because at a certain point you are entire semitones above or below what we grow up listening to as “in tune.”
I’ve seen some interesting stuff (mostly Jacob Collier) where the tuning standard is actively manipulated during a song. Definitely convinces me we have not yet even begun to touch the boundaries of what’s possible in music.
- viraptor 5y ago> Definitely convinces me we have not yet even begun to touch the boundaries of what’s possible in music. Yeah, but we're drifting in the opposite direction. Grid, 4/4, 440Hz and 12ET are the game if you publish anything these days in the western world and it's probably harder to do something different than it would be centuries ago. I can't wait to hear something popular in 13ET, but probably won't happen in my lifespan.
- aoeusnth1 5y agoYou might be interested in Sevish. Their music is entirely written in nonstandard tunings (22EDO, various rational tunings, 5EDO, etc).
- juliangoldsmith 5y agoIn this vein, there's a pretty good playlist on Spotify called "Microtonal Bangers". It includes, among other things, psychedelic rock (KGLW), a blend of traditional Mauritanian music with pop music (Noura Mint Seymali), prog rock (Brendan Byrnes), jazz influenced by traditional Egyptian music (Ibrahim Maalouf), and electronic music (Sevish and Sungazer).