This post is unrelated to to this video: So glad to have found your channel. I just came from your blog post "I made some music using modes of the harmonic series" I've been playing mode 18 myself lately and was very excited to see someone else had written about it (and a little bummed since it meant it wasn't unique) I'm going to try and do a video on them soon, but I'm in no way an academic musician. I'm a hobby-mathematician/freelance-programmer with an interest in music, so if you didn't have much to say about them it makes me a little worried how my amateur take is going to come off. How many people would need to agree on a name for the 29/18, 31/18, & 37/18 until it becomes an accepted name by the academic community and musical scholars such as yourself? Also apparently the 23/18 is called vicesimotertial diminished fourth (but I'm just taking the xen wiki editor at their word)
I am actually closer to your situation than you might think. I'm not an expert in microtonal music, I'm a pop, rock and jazz guy. I got MTS-ESP and experimented with it out of my own curiosity more than anything. I'm also at the mercy of the xen wiki editor for the names of exotic intervals. If people started using mode 18 more often, then I'm sure we'd come to a consensus about interval names eventually. I prefer names that are short, memorable and punchy, though some people like terms like "vicesimotertial diminished fourth." I guess I can understand the esoteric appeal, it's just unwieldy. Anyway, don't worry about coming across like an amateur! Just about everybody in the microtonal world seems to be one.
wonderful and helpful :)
This post is unrelated to to this video:
So glad to have found your channel.
I just came from your blog post "I made some music using modes of the harmonic series"
I've been playing mode 18 myself lately and was very excited to see someone else had written about it (and a little bummed since it meant it wasn't unique)
I'm going to try and do a video on them soon, but I'm in no way an academic musician.
I'm a hobby-mathematician/freelance-programmer with an interest in music, so if you didn't have much to say about them it makes me a little worried how my amateur take is going to come off.
How many people would need to agree on a name for the 29/18, 31/18, & 37/18 until it becomes an accepted name by the academic community and musical scholars such as yourself?
Also apparently the 23/18 is called vicesimotertial diminished fourth (but I'm just taking the xen wiki editor at their word)
I am actually closer to your situation than you might think. I'm not an expert in microtonal music, I'm a pop, rock and jazz guy. I got MTS-ESP and experimented with it out of my own curiosity more than anything. I'm also at the mercy of the xen wiki editor for the names of exotic intervals. If people started using mode 18 more often, then I'm sure we'd come to a consensus about interval names eventually. I prefer names that are short, memorable and punchy, though some people like terms like "vicesimotertial diminished fourth." I guess I can understand the esoteric appeal, it's just unwieldy. Anyway, don't worry about coming across like an amateur! Just about everybody in the microtonal world seems to be one.