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I am Burkhard von Stackelberg, an ambitious musical hobbyist living in Stuttgart. Not the one in Kansas nor the one in Arkansas, but the much bigger one in Germany. While I mainly compose in 12edo (or, let's say, my music is mostly interpretable and understandable in 12edo), some of it is microtonal. Like most of us, I am grown up in a 12edo context culture, and most instruments I deal with strengthen a 12edo position, but in electronic music I like to use a bunch of possibilities, of which 12edo is but one.
I am Burkhard von Stackelberg, an ambitious musical hobbyist living in Stuttgart. Not the one in Kansas nor the one in Arkansas, but the much bigger one in Germany. While I mainly compose in 12edo (or, let's say, my music is mostly interpretable and understandable in 12edo), some of it is microtonal. Like most of us, I am grown up in a 12edo context culture, and most instruments I deal with strengthen a 12edo position, but in electronic music I like to use a bunch of possibilities, of which 12edo is but one.


== Music you can listen to ==
== Music you can listen to (non-12edo only listed) ==
At https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486 you find me as '''Muckotron''' with my electronic music.
At https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486 you find me as '''Muckotron''' with my electronic music.


'''[https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486/jolly-ride Jolly Ride]''' is a piece written in the equal-tempered Bohlen-Piercescale (13ed3). Using an eclectic musical language from baroque, jazz/ragtime, and impressionism, I tried to shed light on the possibilities of BP. Using mostly the lambda scale as a base, modulating between different tonalities, I also use False Father with its pseudo-octave at one point. BP is mostly known as a scale with low tension, I found that there is more in it. Enjoy a jolly ride on an exoplanetary camel!
'''[https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486/jolly-ride Jolly Ride]''' is a piece written in the equal-tempered Bohlen-Piercescale (13ed3). Using an eclectic musical language from baroque, jazz/ragtime, and impressionism, I tried to shed light on the possibilities of BP. Using mostly the lambda scale as a base, modulating between different tonalities, I also use False Father with its pseudo-octave at one point. BP is mostly known as a scale with low tension, I found that there is more in it. Enjoy a jolly ride on an exoplanetary camel!


[https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486/blues-around-trappist-1 '''Blues around Trappist-1''']  
[https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486/blues-around-trappist-1 '''Blues around Trappist-1'''] (ICT 7:9:10:11 open)


Would blues on an other world sound like that?
Would blues on an other world sound like that?


Tuning recipe: Start with a 9:10:11 chord. Repeat it all over in 7:9 periods. While giving you savvy 7:9:10:11 harmonies, it lacks a clear octave period, forcing you to seemingly polytonal settings.
Tuning recipe: Start with a 9:10:11 chord. Repeat it all over in 7:9 periods. While giving you savvy 7:9:10:11 harmonies, it lacks a clear octave period, forcing you to seemingly polytonal settings.
[https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486/bell-dance '''Bell Dance'''] (ICT 10:12:13:14 / 3:1)
[https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486/insectoids '''Insectoids'''] (ICT 7:9:10:11 / 3:1)
[https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486/orbiting-an-exotic-world '''Orbiting an Exotic World'''] in 5edo
[https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486/keepin-cool-in-the-rush '''Keepin' cool in the rush'''] in a 10-note-MOS subset of 24edo
[https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486/sweetness '''Sweetness'''] in a 9-note-MOS subset of 24-edo
'''[https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486/4-edt-rocks How to Dance on a Comet]''' in 4ed3
How many notes does one need to make music? Here, I used no more than 4 in a 1:3 range, at intervals barely less than a Fourth in traditional western notation. Or about half a 5-equal division of the octave.


== Scales and tuning recipes ==
== Scales and tuning recipes ==


=== Interleaving scales (for no better name) ===
=== Intersecting Chord Tetrachord scales (for no better name) ===
Experimenting in the neighbourhood of diatonic JI, I found some scales with astonishing similarities in the way they can be build, leading to a whole scale family with low harmonic entropy.
Experimenting in the neighbourhood of diatonic JI, I found some scales with astonishing similarities in the way they can be build, leading to a whole scale family with low harmonic entropy.


==== Diatonic JI scale ====
==== Diatonic JI scale (ICT 6:8:9:10 / 2:1) ====
* Start with a 8:9:10 chord.
* Start with a 8:9:10 chord.
* Iterate this pattern every 6:8, i.e. 3:4.
* Iterate this pattern every 6:8, i.e. 3:4.
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The scale steps are: 9/8, 10/9, 16/15, 9/8, 10/9, 16/15, 9/8.
The scale steps are: 9/8, 10/9, 16/15, 9/8, 10/9, 16/15, 9/8.


==== Slendro JI scale ====
==== Slendro JI scale (ICT 4:6:7:8 / 2:1) ====
* Start with a 6:7:8 chord.
* Start with a 6:7:8 chord.
* Iterate this pattern every 6:4, i.e. 3:2.
* Iterate this pattern every 6:4, i.e. 3:2.
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The scale steps are: 7/6, 8/7, 9/8, 7/6, 8/7
The scale steps are: 7/6, 8/7, 9/8, 7/6, 8/7


==== Sweet Nine ====
==== Sweet Nine (ICT 8:10:11:12 / 2:1) ====
* Start with a 10:11:12 chord.
* Start with a 10:11:12 chord.
* Iterate this pattern every 10:8, i.e. 5:4.
* Iterate this pattern every 10:8, i.e. 5:4.
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The resulting scale:
The resulting scale:


! sweetnine.scl
! sweetnine.scl
 
Sweet Nine. Based on an 8:10:11:12 chord.
Sweet Nine. Based on an 8:10:11:12 chord.
!
 
9
!
!
 
11/10
9
6/5
 
5/4
!
11/8
 
3/2
11/10
25/16
 
55/32
6/5
15/8
 
2
5/4
 
11/8
 
3/2
 
25/16
 
55/32
 
15/8
 
2


==== General pattern ====
==== General pattern ====
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