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 are) 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. **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 X.J. Scott http://www.nonoctave.com/tuning/LilMissScaleOven/ I bought it and with 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 have read and studied many books. Among them: The Just Intonation Primer by David Doty On the Sensations of Tone by Hermann Helmholtz and Alexander Ellis Genesis of a Music by Harry Partch
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