User:FloraC

Flora Canou / Fumica (Discord ID: fumica).

I speak English and native Mandarin.

I don't speak conversational Japanese, except for some basic words and how to read kanas and kanjis, so I can read Japanese pages to some degree, but not much beyond that. Please stick to English (or Mandarin if you will) should you wish to have a convo with me.

Long term projects:

• Review, maintain and improve temperament pages
• Review, maintain and improve the scale trees for mos pages

Important articles of RTT I created:

• Optimization – an introduction
• Constrained tuning
• Patent val/Properties
• 2.3-equivalent class and Pythagorean-commatic interval naming system
• Functional harmony in rank-2 temperaments

Misc. hemi-idiosyncratic stuff:

• Contributed to the Microtonal plugin for MuseScore and made a fork with key signatures re-ordered into fifths for her own use.
• Explored and documented the sensamagic dominant chord and the hemimage bleeding chord, based on her understanding of septimal voice leading.
• Explored the canou family of temperaments, and a few others in User:FloraC/Temperament name proposal.

Music

• SoundCloud Profile

Tools

• Temperament Evaluator – Python scripts to compute TE tunings, badnesses, optimal patent vals, etc.
• Launchpad Tuner – Python scripts to tune Novation Launchpads.

Selected writings

As part of the essay collection Notes of the Generation.

• Fundamental Principles to Musical Sense
• There Is Not a Third Side of the River
• Proposed Standard Ear-Training Waveform
• On the Canon of Music
• Analysis on the 13-Limit Just Intonation Space: Episode I
• Analysis on the 13-Limit Just Intonation Space: Episode II
• Fokker Analysis of Rank-3 Scales
• Hard Problems of Harmony and Psychoacoustically Supported Optimization

Others

• Critique on Functional Just System
• Critique on D&D's Terminology
• Fumica's edo impressions

Well temperaments

I developed well temperaments on 12et and 17et which can be seen here.

• Flora's 12-note well temperament
• Flora's 17-note well temperament

I've also been trying to develop one on 19et but no satisfactory result as of now.

Q: What are the difficulties in developing a 19wt?

A: First, unlike 12- and 17et with ambiguous major and minor thirds, 19et's thirds are close enough to 5-limit JI that interpreting them otherwise is like a force. In 12- and 17et, those intervals can represent different ratios in different keys, whereas in 19et, they represent the same ratios better or worse in different keys. The effect isn't satisfactory. Second, the harmonics of 3, 5, 7, and 13 in 19et are all flat, so there's not much room to operate. Third, the ambiguity of 4\19 and 15\19 is an important characteritics, and those should be ambiguous in every key.

Q: What are the solutions?

A: For 19et to have any room to operate, octave stretch must be employed. For 4\19 and 15\19 not deviating too much, hemitwelfth is used as a generator.

Q: It's possible to make octave stretched well temperaments?

A: Yes it's possible. Just one more argument than pure-octave. Issue is I haven't got a satisfactory result.

See also

• Flora Canou

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• Analysis on the 13-limit just intonation space: episode i
• Analysis on the 13-limit just intonation space: episode ii
• Critique on D&D's terminology
• Critique on Functional Just System
• Flora's 12-note well temperament
• Flora's 17-note well temperament
• Fokker analysis of rank-3 scales
• Fumica's edo impressions
• Fundamental principles to musical sense
• Hard problems of harmony and psychoacoustically supported optimization
• Infobox Interval
• Mathematically defined ET tier list
• On the canon of music
• Proposed standard ear-training waveform
• Quick reference
• Reasonable commas
• Sandbox
• Sequence of equal temperaments by error/Supplement
• Style guide
• Table of 540edo intervals
• Temperament data
• Temperament name proposal
• There is not a third side of the river
• common.css