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Johannes | Johannes "John" Werpup, aka Xen-Gedankenwelt (or XG), is a xenharmonic theorist, composer and musician. He was born in 1982 near Cologne/Bonn in Germany. | ||
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John has been inspired by German music theorist [[Martin Vogel]], and his view on 7-limit JI, on harmonic dualism, and his concept of consonance vectors. He also learned from his books that 7/4 can be approximated by an augmented sixth 225/128 (-> [[marvel temperament]]). | John has been inspired by German music theorist [[Martin Vogel]], and his view on 7-limit JI, on harmonic dualism, and his concept of consonance vectors. He also learned from his books that 7/4 can be approximated by an augmented sixth 225/128 (-> [[marvel temperament]]). | ||
Other huge inspirations were [[Erv Wilson]]'s research on [[Moment of symmetry|moments of symmetry]], and the [[Regular temperament|regular mapping paradigm]]. | |||
And thanks to musicians like [[Deja Igliashon]] | And thanks to musicians like [[Deja Igliashon]], [[Ron Sword]] and [[Paul Erlich]], and their approaches to [[15edo|15-]], [[16edo|16-]] and [[22edo]], resp., he learned to appreciate (particularly [[zeus]]-tempered) neutral seconds, and small edos. | ||
== Music Genres == | == Music Genres == | ||
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Besides Xenharmonic music, John is interested in non-Euclidean (particularly hyperbolic) geometry, programming, the Japanese language and culture, vegan cooking, and board / video games. | Besides Xenharmonic music, John is interested in non-Euclidean (particularly hyperbolic) geometry, programming, the Japanese language and culture, vegan cooking, and board / video games. | ||
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