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'''Carlo Serafini''' (b. 1957) is an Italian composer of futurist electronic music.
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"> **What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?**


it was in the 80's. I was an international student (from Italy) at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA studying music synthesis. I heard about Wendy Carlos and her "//Beauty in the Beast//" I was (and still are) very impressed by that album. I bought "//Tuning In: Microtonality in Electronic Music: A Basic Guide to Using Alternate Scales. Temperaments and Microtuning using Synthesizers//" by Scott Wilkinson and tried to apply what I was learning retuning a couple of Yamaha synths I had: TX81Z and TX802 but trying to retune each and every note of the 128 midi pitches by hand was way too much for me and gave up, plus, I wasn't ready and my interest remained dormant for almost 20 years until I started thinking about what could be the subject of a dissertation for my master's degree in music and new technology at the Conservatory of Music in Florence, Italy.
== Progress report ==
After much thinking I came up with this title “//Technology and Temperament: Hardware, Software and Online Resources for Microtonal Music//” and started gathering informations.  
; What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?
: It was in the 80's. I was an international student (from Italy) at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA studying music synthesis. I heard about [[Wendy Carlos]] and her "''Beauty in the Beast''" I was (and still am) very impressed by that album. I bought "''Tuning In: Microtonality in Electronic Music: A Basic Guide to Using Alternate Scales. Temperaments and Microtuning using Synthesizers''" by [[Scott Wilkinson]] and tried to apply what I was learning retuning a couple of Yamaha synths I had: TX81Z and TX802 but trying to retune each and every note of the 128 midi pitches by hand was way too much for me and gave up, plus, I wasn't ready and my interest remained dormant for almost 20 years until I started thinking about what could be the subject of a dissertation for my master's degree in music and new technology at the Conservatory of Music in Florence, Italy.


**What instruments or means have you had/do you have now/do you want for the making of microtonal music?**
: After much thinking I came up with this title “''Technology and Temperament: Hardware, Software and Online Resources for Microtonal Music''” and started gathering informations (you can find it [http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/e5d36b2e021967c47d0e5a25155bb4be-125.html here]).


During the researches for my dissertation I stumbled upon a great piece of software: LMSO by X.J. Scott http://www.nonoctave.com/tuning/LilMissScaleOven/
; What instruments or means have you had/do you have now/do you want for the making of microtonal music?
I bought it and with Scott's help I started experimenting. A new world opened up! Intervals I had never thought possible unfolded in front of me. All kinds of scales, exotic, weird, beautiful, ugly ones appeared. In the meantime I have read and studied many books, among them: "//The Just Intonation Primer//" by David Doty "//On the Sensations of Tone//" by Hermann Helmholtz and Alexander Ellis and "//Genesis of a Music//" by Harry Partch and searched everything I could find on the internet.
: During the researches for my dissertation I stumbled upon a great piece of software: LMSO by [https://en.xen.wiki/w/X._J._Scott X.J. Scott]


My microtonal studies can be heard here: http://www.seraph.it/Detwelvulation.html
: I bought it and with [[Jeff Scott]]'s help I started experimenting. A new world opened up! [[Interval]]s I had never thought possible unfolded in front of me. All kinds of [[scale]]s, exotic, weird, beautiful, ugly ones appeared. In the meantime I started reading and studying many books, among them: "''The Just Intonation Primer''" by [[David Doty]] "''On the Sensations of Tone''" by [[Hermann Helmholtz]] and [[Alexander Ellis]] and "''Genesis of a Music''" by [[Harry Partch]] and searched everything I could find on the internet (music, articles and everything else).


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: My microtonal studies can be heard [http://www.seraph.it/Detwelvulation.html here]. Read my [http://www.seraph.it/blog.html blog] for more informations.
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it was in the 80's. I was an international student (from Italy) at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA studying music synthesis. I heard about Wendy Carlos and her &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Beauty in the Beast&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; I was (and still are) very impressed by that album. I bought &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Tuning In: Microtonality in Electronic Music: A Basic Guide to Using Alternate Scales. Temperaments and Microtuning using Synthesizers&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; by Scott Wilkinson and tried to apply what I was learning retuning a couple of Yamaha synths I had: TX81Z and TX802 but trying to retune each and every note of the 128 midi pitches by hand was way too much for me and gave up, plus, I wasn't ready and my interest remained dormant for almost 20 years until I started thinking about what could be the subject of a dissertation for my master's degree in music and new technology at the Conservatory of Music in Florence, Italy.&lt;br /&gt;
 
After much thinking I came up with this title “&lt;em&gt;Technology and Temperament: Hardware, Software and Online Resources for Microtonal Music&lt;/em&gt;” and started gathering informations. &lt;br /&gt;
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During the researches for my dissertation I stumbled upon a great piece of software: LMSO by X.J. Scott &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:10:http://www.nonoctave.com/tuning/LilMissScaleOven/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.nonoctave.com/tuning/LilMissScaleOven/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.nonoctave.com/tuning/LilMissScaleOven/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:10 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I bought it and with Scott's help I started experimenting. A new world opened up! Intervals I had never thought possible unfolded in front of me. All kinds of scales, exotic, weird, beautiful, ugly ones appeared. In the meantime I have read and studied many books, among them: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;The Just Intonation Primer&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; by David Doty &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;On the Sensations of Tone&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; by Hermann Helmholtz and Alexander Ellis and &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Genesis of a Music&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; by Harry Partch and searched everything I could find on the internet.&lt;br /&gt;
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My microtonal studies can be heard here: &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:11:http://www.seraph.it/Detwelvulation.html --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.seraph.it/Detwelvulation.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.seraph.it/Detwelvulation.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:11 --&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div>