Dave Hill

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Ralph David Hill, or Dave Hill, was a Californian composer, developer, music historian and music theorist. Much of his work was devoted to the use of the harmonic series as a musical scale

He composed music tuned to the harmonic series, or to subsets of it in the 11-limit, 13-limit or others. He developed software and hardware for sound and voice analysis and synthesis.

Writings

  • Hill, Ralph David. "Just Intonation on a Home-Built Digital Synthesizer-Computer", Interval vol. 4 no. 2, fall 1983, pp. 15-22.
  • Hill, Ralph David. "An Example of the 48:49 Sixth-tone Step", 1/1 vol. 4 no. 4, fall 1988, p. 14.
  • Hill, Ralph David. "Study of Whole Tones in Two Parts", 1/1 vol. 5 no. 2, 1989, pp. 6-7.
  • Hill, Ralph David. "The Cro-Magnon Advanced Additive Analysis/Resynthesis System", Proceedings of the 1991 International Computer Music Conference, 1991, pp. 169-176.
  • Hill, Ralph David. "Introduction to Non-Traditional Harmony. 2-hr. cassette and accompanying notes".

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