Carlo Serafini
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**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. 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?** During the researches for my dissertation I stumbled upon a great piece of software: [[http://www.nonoctave.com/tuning/LilMissScaleOven/|LMSO]] by X.J. Scott I bought it and with Jeff Scott's help I started experimenting. A new world opened up! Intervals I had never thought possible unfolded in front of me. All kinds of scales, exotic, weird, beautiful, ugly ones appeared. In the meantime I started reading and studying many books, among them: "//The Just Intonation Primer//" by David Doty "//On the Sensations of Tone//" by Hermann Helmholtz and Alexander Ellis and "//Genesis of a Music//" by Harry Partch and searched everything I could find on the internet (music, articles and everything else). My microtonal studies can be heard [[http://www.seraph.it/Detwelvulation.html| here]]. Read my [[http://www.seraph.it/blog.html|blog]] for more informations.
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<html><head><title>Carlo Serafini</title></head><body><strong>What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?</strong><br /> <br /> 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 "<em>Beauty in the Beast</em>" I was (and still am) very impressed by that album. I bought "<em>Tuning In: Microtonality in Electronic Music: A Basic Guide to Using Alternate Scales. Temperaments and Microtuning using Synthesizers</em>" 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.<br /> After much thinking I came up with this title “<em>Technology and Temperament: Hardware, Software and Online Resources for Microtonal Music</em>” and started gathering informations (you can find it <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/e5d36b2e021967c47d0e5a25155bb4be-125.html/" rel="nofollow">here</a>).<br /> <br /> <strong>What instruments or means have you had/do you have now/do you want for the making of microtonal music?</strong><br /> <br /> During the researches for my dissertation I stumbled upon a great piece of software: <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.nonoctave.com/tuning/LilMissScaleOven/" rel="nofollow">LMSO</a> by X.J. Scott<br /> I bought it and with Jeff Scott's help I started experimenting. A new world opened up! Intervals I had never thought possible unfolded in front of me. All kinds of scales, exotic, weird, beautiful, ugly ones appeared. In the meantime I started reading and studying many books, among them: "<em>The Just Intonation Primer</em>" by David Doty "<em>On the Sensations of Tone</em>" by Hermann Helmholtz and Alexander Ellis and "<em>Genesis of a Music</em>" by Harry Partch and searched everything I could find on the internet (music, articles and everything else).<br /> <br /> My microtonal studies can be heard <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.seraph.it/Detwelvulation.html" rel="nofollow"> here</a>. Read my <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.seraph.it/blog.html" rel="nofollow">blog</a> for more informations.</body></html>