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*[[User:Ganaram inukshuk/Models]] - For xen-related models (needs reorganizing)
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*[[User:Ganaram inukshuk/TAMNAMS Extension]] - Since there were others making their own TAMNAMS extension pages, I decided to make my own.
*[[User:Ganaram inukshuk/TAMNAMS Extension]] - Since there were others making their own TAMNAMS extension pages, I decided to make my own.
*[[User:Ganaram inukshuk/MOS page standardization guide]]
These pages are descriptions on how I approach various things, such as compositional techniques and how I approach a scale I've never used before.
These pages are descriptions on how I approach various things, such as compositional techniques and how I approach a scale I've never used before.
*[[User:Ganaram inukshuk/Methodologies]]
*[[User:Ganaram inukshuk/Methodologies]]

Revision as of 18:07, 13 June 2023

I generally go by "Ganaram" or some variant of that (ganaram_inukshuk, gdinuk). (Discord: Ganaram Inukshuk#1325; I'm generally more active on the Xen Discord.)

I've heard about microtonality on and off over the years, but what drew me into the topic was two things: HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA's video series on 19edo and Patricia Taxxon's song Spiral Staircase.

From a compositional perspective, my goal is to incorporate xenharmonic elements into an otherwise normal-sounding song, though my more ambitious goal is to not use the diatonic (LLLsLLs) scale structure at all.

From a theory perspective, my goal is to better understand xenharmony from a temperament-agnostic perspective. This primarily means edos and MOSses, but extends to MV3 scales and higher.

Main mindset

I summarize my main mindset using the following trinity: temperaments, mosses, and edos are not each other.

Temperaments produce mosses, but two different temperaments may produce the same mos. Edos support more than one family of mos, so it's fruitless to shoehorn the notation meant for one mos for a different mos within the same edo. Two temperaments may produce the same JI ratio, but have different qualities in different mosses.

This level of decoupling makes it so I don't let any one temperament, mos, or edo influence how I look at either, so a perfect 5th, 3/2, and 7\12 are not (necessarily) each other. In certain contexts, they suggest one another, but they are not each other (at least to me).

That said, I focus more on mosses and, secondarily, edos when it comes to this trinity. I prefer to look at scales based in a temperament-agnostic sense, as mosses that are supported by an edo, or different edos. Doing so relieves me of the expectation that a certain interval must necessarily fall within a few cents of a JI ratio and lets me be more explorative with musical scales. This is also less names to memorize, since there are a lot of temperament names, and looking at mosses directly means fewer names to remember.

Other running assumptions and techniques may be found under the methodologies page below.

TO-DO list, major contributions, and wish list

Contributions

To-do list

  • Create a few helpful modules and templates to standardize appearance and presentation of info on mos pages. See contributions section for modules and templates.
  • Refine TAMNAMS proposals with guidance of inthar and others:
    • TAMNAMS naming extension for mosses with more than 10 notes.
      • Standardize terminology
      • Names go up to and, in some cases, beyond 3rd mosdescendants
      • Make it clear that prefixes for differentiating different mosdescendants are optional
      • Discuss temperament-agnostic alternatives to mosdescendant prefixes???
  • Clean up mos recursion page (because I feel bad leaving the algorithms untouched and untested for so long).
    • Replace pseudocode for is-this-scale-a-mos? program with python code; clarify with more examples.
    • Relate mos recursion with the mos family tree.
  • Composing music with these abstract ideas.

Wish list

  • Important edo pages have a subpage or related page that lists all of the possible mosses for every possible generator.
    • I've provided examples for 17edo and 31edo as a table, but it should be possible to turn this into a template.
  • Mos pages standardization; through the aid of templates, the most important mos pages should display the following information:
    • A standardized introductory paragraph. (Fulfilled)
    • A listing of its modes, their step patterns, and names, if it has any. (Fulfilled)
    • A listing of the mos's note names, usually diamond-mos.
    • A listing of its interval sizes and scale degrees.
    • A listing of its mos relatives, around 2 generations away?
    • A scale tree that shows the tuning range and supported edos. (Fulfilled by CompactStar)
    • A means of looking up mos names, particularly TAMNAMS names. (Fulfilled by Inthar; octave-specific names only)
      • For mosses with more than 10 notes, mos descendant names are used. (These names currently aren't standardized, so this currently can't be done.)
      • Certain non-octave mosses should have their own names. (I have such a system, but it hasn't been discussed with others yet.)
    • Note: Less important mosses (such as those with very few note counts) or under-explored mosses (typically those with higher note counts) don't need all of the info described above.
      • At the absolute least, the infobox should be present. If the mos is closely related to a low-note-count mos, or has a low note count but isn't well-explored, then the intro, modes, and scale tree can be added.

Subpages

These pages contain content that currently don't have an exact place elsewhere on the Wiki, or contains personal notes that otherwise don't have an exact place on the Wiki. I do my best to explain these things as though I magically forgot everything I know about xenharmony, so I consider it a bonus if someone else found this easy to understand.

These pages are descriptions on how I approach various things, such as compositional techniques and how I approach a scale I've never used before.

Sandbox page (for testing things)