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== Progress report ==
== Progress report ==
; '''What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?'''
; What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?
: it was in the 80's. I was an international student (from Italy) at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA studying music synthesis. I heard about Wendy Carlos and her "''Beauty in the Beast''" I was (and still am) very impressed by that album. I bought "''Tuning In: Microtonality in Electronic Music: A Basic Guide to Using Alternate Scales. Temperaments and Microtuning using Synthesizers''" by Scott Wilkinson and tried to apply what I was learning retuning a couple of Yamaha synths I had: TX81Z and TX802 but trying to retune each and every note of the 128 midi pitches by hand was way too much for me and gave up, plus, I wasn't ready and my interest remained dormant for almost 20 years until I started thinking about what could be the subject of a dissertation for my master's degree in music and new technology at the Conservatory of Music in Florence, Italy.
: it was in the 80's. I was an international student (from Italy) at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA studying music synthesis. I heard about Wendy Carlos and her "''Beauty in the Beast''" I was (and still am) very impressed by that album. I bought "''Tuning In: Microtonality in Electronic Music: A Basic Guide to Using Alternate Scales. Temperaments and Microtuning using Synthesizers''" by Scott Wilkinson and tried to apply what I was learning retuning a couple of Yamaha synths I had: TX81Z and TX802 but trying to retune each and every note of the 128 midi pitches by hand was way too much for me and gave up, plus, I wasn't ready and my interest remained dormant for almost 20 years until I started thinking about what could be the subject of a dissertation for my master's degree in music and new technology at the Conservatory of Music in Florence, Italy.


: After much thinking I came up with this title “''Technology and Temperament: Hardware, Software and Online Resources for Microtonal Music''” and started gathering informations (you can find it [http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/e5d36b2e021967c47d0e5a25155bb4be-125.html here]).
: After much thinking I came up with this title “''Technology and Temperament: Hardware, Software and Online Resources for Microtonal Music''” and started gathering informations (you can find it [http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/e5d36b2e021967c47d0e5a25155bb4be-125.html here]).


;'''What instruments or means have you had/do you have now/do you want for the making of microtonal music?'''
; What instruments or means have you had/do you have now/do you want for the making of microtonal music?
: During the researches for my dissertation I stumbled upon a great piece of software: LMSO by [https://en.xen.wiki/w/X._J._Scott X.J. Scott]
: During the researches for my dissertation I stumbled upon a great piece of software: LMSO by [https://en.xen.wiki/w/X._J._Scott X.J. Scott]