Free style JI: Difference between revisions

Line 1:

[[Lou Harrison]] invented ~~this~~ term from a technique he applied first in the middle section of his piece "[https://soundcloud.com/center-21stcentury-music/lou-harrison-at-the-tomb-iof-charles-ives At The Tomb of Charles Ives]" (see also [http://web.archive.org/web/20190408152307/https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/pitchrecs3 Archived page on CD Baby]); Instead of working with a set of fixed pitches, his concept was instead to use a set of fixed intervals regardless where this lead one. [[David Doty]] realized a midi version of a Symphony in Free Style That Mr. Harrison wrote.

[[Lou Harrison]] invented the term '''free style JI''' from a technique he applied first in the middle section of his piece "[https://soundcloud.com/center-21stcentury-music/lou-harrison-at-the-tomb-iof-charles-ives At The Tomb of Charles Ives]" (see also [http://web.archive.org/web/20190408152307/https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/pitchrecs3 Archived page on CD Baby]); Instead of working with a set of fixed pitches, his concept was instead to use a set of fixed intervals regardless where this lead one. [[David Doty]] realized a midi version of a Symphony in Free Style That Mr. Harrison wrote.

Free style JI is also sometimes referred to as '''rational intonation''' or ''RI''.

In adding freedom you may be sacrificing a 'safety' of familiarity, tonality, simplicity of materials, etc. It is a dangerous and rewarding world out there. Another consideration is that unless an effort is made to restrict the range of tonalities, the numerators and denominators grow with time and become unwieldy and eventually impossible to manage. If no such effort is made, they grow linearly. One possible solution is nanotempering--using an equal temperament so high it cannot be distinguished from JI.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-[[Lou Harrison]] invented this term from a technique he applied first in the middle section of his piece "[https://soundcloud.com/center-21stcentury-music/lou-harrison-at-the-tomb-iof-charles-ives At The Tomb of Charles Ives]" (see also [http://web.archive.org/web/20190408152307/https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/pitchrecs3 Archived page on CD Baby]); Instead of working with a set of fixed pitches, his concept was instead to use a set of fixed intervals regardless where this lead one. [[David Doty]] realized a midi version of a Symphony in Free Style That Mr. Harrison wrote.
+[[Lou Harrison]] invented the term '''free style JI''' from a technique he applied first in the middle section of his piece "[https://soundcloud.com/center-21stcentury-music/lou-harrison-at-the-tomb-iof-charles-ives At The Tomb of Charles Ives]" (see also [http://web.archive.org/web/20190408152307/https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/pitchrecs3 Archived page on CD Baby]); Instead of working with a set of fixed pitches, his concept was instead to use a set of fixed intervals regardless where this lead one. [[David Doty]] realized a midi version of a Symphony in Free Style That Mr. Harrison wrote.
+Free style JI is also sometimes referred to as '''rational intonation''' or ''RI''.
 In adding freedom you may be sacrificing a 'safety' of familiarity, tonality, simplicity of materials, etc. It is a dangerous and rewarding world out there. Another consideration is that unless an effort is made to restrict the range of tonalities, the numerators and denominators grow with time and become unwieldy and eventually impossible to manage. If no such effort is made, they grow linearly. One possible solution is nanotempering--using an equal temperament so high it cannot be distinguished from JI.