User:FranklyFlawless: Difference between revisions
mNo edit summary |
Add WIP 7-limit colour notation. |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
Self-taught musician of over 20 intermittent years. Mostly learned video game music repertoire by ear during childhood with the Halberstadt layout using the Yamaha PSR-273, then started improvising and creating medleys during adulthood alongside learning jazz theory while still retaining usage of the Yamaha PSR series (up until the PSR-EW425). Increasingly grew frustrated by the Halberstadt layout due to the onerous task of learning multiple fingerings for the same chord and/or scale, so I started searching for isomorphic solutions and encountered the LinnStrument (200) from Roger Linn Design on the Xenharmonic Wiki's [[Keyboard]] page, which I acquired during the pandemic. Invested about 5 years intensely learning it, but the skill ceiling for proficient polyphonic interplay became an exponentially insurmountable challenge, so I continued my isomorphic layout search until I learned about the Seven Limit Mosaichord from Desiderata Systems in the Kite Guitar community (on Matrix), which I acquired during 2025. The Voronoi layout it uses recycled my isomorphic experience from the LinnStrument, so my hand finger shapes became a natural focal transition point, and I eventually decided to fully commit to learning the Mosaichord instead. | Self-taught musician of over 20 intermittent years. Mostly learned video game music repertoire by ear during childhood with the Halberstadt layout using the Yamaha PSR-273, then started improvising and creating medleys during adulthood alongside learning jazz theory while still retaining usage of the Yamaha PSR series (up until the PSR-EW425). Increasingly grew frustrated by the Halberstadt layout due to the onerous task of learning multiple fingerings for the same chord and/or scale, so I started searching for isomorphic solutions and encountered the LinnStrument (200) from Roger Linn Design on the Xenharmonic Wiki's [[Keyboard]] page, which I acquired during the pandemic. Invested about 5 years intensely learning it, but the skill ceiling for proficient polyphonic interplay became an exponentially insurmountable challenge, so I continued my isomorphic layout search until I learned about the Seven Limit Mosaichord from Desiderata Systems in the Kite Guitar community (on Matrix), which I acquired during 2025. The Voronoi layout it uses recycled my isomorphic experience from the LinnStrument, so my hand finger shapes became a natural focal transition point, and I eventually decided to fully commit to learning the Mosaichord instead. | ||
== 7-limit Colour Notation (WIP) == | |||
Based on [[Kite's color notation|Kite's colour notation]] with multiple modifications: | |||
# Six equidistant colours (primary and secondary) derived from the RYB colour model (6EDCM?), while reusing white for 3-limit. | |||
# Split into "cold" and "hot" colours: | |||
#* Cold: Purple, Blue, and Green | |||
#* Hot: Yellow, Orange, and Red | |||
# Cold colours are allocated towards "minor/flat" generators (6/5, 7/5, 7/4) while hot colours are allocated towards "major/sharp" generators (5/4, 8/7, and 10/7). | |||
#* All opposing generators are assigned opposing colours. | |||
# Since 7/5 and 10/7 are combinations of other generators within the same group, assign the middle colour of each colour group to them as well: | |||
#* 7/5 receives blue. | |||
#* 10/7 receives orange. | |||
# Reuse [[Kite's color notation|Kite's colour notation]] work by keeping 5/4's colour assignment to yellow, therefore assigning the colour purple to 8/5. | |||
# Reuse [[Kite's color notation|Kite's colour notation]] work by keeping 8/7 colour assignment to red, therefore assigning the colour green to 7/4. | |||
For colourspeak, strictly use the first letter of each colour from the English language while appending "o" or "u" as a suffix depending on the generator, leading to this conversation: | |||
# Wa = Wa (no conversion) | |||
# Ru = Ru (no conversion) | |||
# Yo = Yo (no conversion) | |||
# Ruyo = Ou | |||
# Zo = Go | |||
# Gu = Pu | |||
# Zogu = Bo | |||
Revision as of 02:27, 24 March 2026
History
Self-taught musician of over 20 intermittent years. Mostly learned video game music repertoire by ear during childhood with the Halberstadt layout using the Yamaha PSR-273, then started improvising and creating medleys during adulthood alongside learning jazz theory while still retaining usage of the Yamaha PSR series (up until the PSR-EW425). Increasingly grew frustrated by the Halberstadt layout due to the onerous task of learning multiple fingerings for the same chord and/or scale, so I started searching for isomorphic solutions and encountered the LinnStrument (200) from Roger Linn Design on the Xenharmonic Wiki's Keyboard page, which I acquired during the pandemic. Invested about 5 years intensely learning it, but the skill ceiling for proficient polyphonic interplay became an exponentially insurmountable challenge, so I continued my isomorphic layout search until I learned about the Seven Limit Mosaichord from Desiderata Systems in the Kite Guitar community (on Matrix), which I acquired during 2025. The Voronoi layout it uses recycled my isomorphic experience from the LinnStrument, so my hand finger shapes became a natural focal transition point, and I eventually decided to fully commit to learning the Mosaichord instead.
7-limit Colour Notation (WIP)
Based on Kite's colour notation with multiple modifications:
- Six equidistant colours (primary and secondary) derived from the RYB colour model (6EDCM?), while reusing white for 3-limit.
- Split into "cold" and "hot" colours:
- Cold: Purple, Blue, and Green
- Hot: Yellow, Orange, and Red
- Cold colours are allocated towards "minor/flat" generators (6/5, 7/5, 7/4) while hot colours are allocated towards "major/sharp" generators (5/4, 8/7, and 10/7).
- All opposing generators are assigned opposing colours.
- Since 7/5 and 10/7 are combinations of other generators within the same group, assign the middle colour of each colour group to them as well:
- 7/5 receives blue.
- 10/7 receives orange.
- Reuse Kite's colour notation work by keeping 5/4's colour assignment to yellow, therefore assigning the colour purple to 8/5.
- Reuse Kite's colour notation work by keeping 8/7 colour assignment to red, therefore assigning the colour green to 7/4.
For colourspeak, strictly use the first letter of each colour from the English language while appending "o" or "u" as a suffix depending on the generator, leading to this conversation:
- Wa = Wa (no conversion)
- Ru = Ru (no conversion)
- Yo = Yo (no conversion)
- Ruyo = Ou
- Zo = Go
- Gu = Pu
- Zogu = Bo