User:Burkhard
About me
I am Burkhard von Stackelberg, an ambitious musical hobbyist living in Stuttgart. Not the one in Kansas nor the one in Arkansas, but the much bigger one in Germany. While I mainly compose in 12edo (or, let's say, my music is mostly interpretable and understandable in 12edo), some of it is microtonal. Like most of us, I am grown up in a 12edo context culture, and most instruments I deal with strengthen a 12edo position, but in electronic music I like to use a bunch of possibilities, of which 12edo is but one.
Music you can listen to (non-12edo only listed)
At https://soundcloud.com/user-824310486 you find me as Muckotron with my electronic music.
Jolly Ride is a piece written in the equal-tempered Bohlen-Piercescale (13ed3). Using an eclectic musical language from baroque, jazz/ragtime, and impressionism, I tried to shed light on the possibilities of BP. Using mostly the lambda scale as a base, modulating between different tonalities, I also use False Father with its pseudo-octave at one point. BP is mostly known as a scale with low tension, I found that there is more in it. Enjoy a jolly ride on an exoplanetary camel!
Blues around Trappist-1 (ICT 7:9:10:11 open)
Would blues on an other world sound like that?
Tuning recipe: Start with a 9:10:11 chord. Repeat it all over in 7:9 periods. While giving you savvy 7:9:10:11 harmonies, it lacks a clear octave period, forcing you to seemingly polytonal settings.
Bell Dance (ICT 10:12:13:14 / 3:1)
Insectoids (ICT 7:9:10:11 / 3:1)
Orbiting an Exotic World in 5edo
Keepin' cool in the rush in a 10-note-MOS subset of 24edo
Sweetness in a 9-note-MOS subset of 24-edo
How to Dance on a Comet in 4ed3
How many notes does one need to make music? Here, I used no more than 4 in a 1:3 range, at intervals barely less than a Fourth in traditional western notation. Or about half a 5-equal division of the octave.
Scales and tuning recipes
Intersecting Chord Tetrachord scales (for no better name)
Experimenting in the neighbourhood of diatonic JI, I found some scales with astonishing similarities in the way they can be build, leading to a whole scale family with low harmonic entropy.
Diatonic JI scale (ICT 6:8:9:10 / 2:1)
- Start with a 8:9:10 chord.
- Iterate this pattern every 6:8, i.e. 3:4.
- Stop iteration at the octave (2:1).
The scale contains a 6:8:9:10 chord, whose inversion is a (filled) major chord: 8:9:10:12. This pattern occurs twice. The third major chord contains a Pythagorean major third (diapasson).
The resulting scale:
! byzantine.scl Byzantine Diatonic ! repeats every 4:3 until iteration stops at the octave. 7 ! 9/8 5/4 4/3 3/2 5/3 6/9 2
The scale steps are: 9/8, 10/9, 16/15, 9/8, 10/9, 16/15, 9/8.
Slendro JI scale (ICT 4:6:7:8 / 2:1)
- Start with a 6:7:8 chord.
- Iterate this pattern every 6:4, i.e. 3:2.
- Stop iteration at the octave (2:1)
The pattern contains a 4:6:7:8 chord, which can be interpreted as a 2:3:4 open-fifth chord, which is septimally filled. This pattern occurs once
The resulting scale:
! ji-slendro.scl JI Slendro ! 5 ! 7/6 4/3 3/2 7/4 2
The scale steps are: 7/6, 8/7, 9/8, 7/6, 8/7
Sweet Nine (ICT 8:10:11:12 / 2:1)
- Start with a 10:11:12 chord.
- Iterate this pattern every 10:8, i.e. 5:4.
- Stop iteration at the octave.
The base chord ist 8:10:11:12.
The basic scale steps are 11/10, 12/11 and 25/24. The iteration stops at a 16/15 interval.
The resulting scale:
! sweetnine.scl Sweet Nine. Based on an 8:10:11:12 chord. ! 9 ! 11/10 6/5 5/4 11/8 3/2 25/16 55/32 15/8 2
General pattern
- Choose a chord of 3 following integers, for example 3:4:5
- Double the numbers, filling the upper gap. Example: 6:8:9:10. This is your base chord.
- Start your scale with the upper triad as your chord.
- Iterate this chord, using the lower dyad as generator.
- Stop iteration at a chosen period interval. Example: 2:1