TallKite
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== having torsion vs. being enfactored == | == having torsion vs. being enfactored == | ||
Hi Kite. Per your request I'm continuing discussion with you on your user page where you are more likely to see it sooner. This is a continuation of the discussion started here: [[Talk:Color notation/Temperament | Hi Kite. Per your request I'm continuing discussion with you on your user page where you are more likely to see it sooner. This is a continuation of the discussion started here: [[Talk:Color notation/Temperament names]] | ||
I'm glad you agree about torsion. I like the way you explained it, pointing to the name of RTT itself. As a nit-pick, though, I can't agree with the statement that "you can't hear periodicity blocks". That wasn't what I was trying to say. In fact, I was trying to say something like the opposite. My point was that using e.g. {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} has an audible effect on periodicity blocks but not on temperaments. For a periodicity block, it causes the size of the scale to double, but half of the notes are a redundant copy of the other half, simply offset. Because this is a real audible effect, and I understand there are maybe even some uses for it or cases where it's desirable, it has a name, "torsion". But for a temperament, though, where the comma is by definition tempered out, there is no audible effect, and thus using {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} is meaningless. It's just pathological enfactoring that is removed when the comma basis is put into canonical form. | I'm glad you agree about torsion. I like the way you explained it, pointing to the name of RTT itself. As a nit-pick, though, I can't agree with the statement that "you can't hear periodicity blocks". That wasn't what I was trying to say. In fact, I was trying to say something like the opposite. My point was that using e.g. {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} has an audible effect on periodicity blocks but not on temperaments. For a periodicity block, it causes the size of the scale to double, but half of the notes are a redundant copy of the other half, simply offset. Because this is a real audible effect, and I understand there are maybe even some uses for it or cases where it's desirable, it has a name, "torsion". But for a temperament, though, where the comma is by definition tempered out, there is no audible effect, and thus using {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} is meaningless. It's just pathological enfactoring that is removed when the comma basis is put into canonical form. | ||