User:FloraC

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Flora Canou / Fumica (Discord ID: fumica).

I speak English and native Mandarin.

I don't speak conversational Japanese, except for some basic words and how to read kanas and kanjis, so I can read Japanese pages to some degree, but not much beyond that. Please stick to English (or Mandarin if you will) should you wish to have a convo with me.

Long term projects:

  • Review, maintain and improve temperament pages
  • Review, maintain and improve the scale trees for mos pages

Important articles of RTT I created:

Misc. hemi-idiosyncratic stuff:

Music

Tools

Selected writings

As part of the essay collection Notes of the Generation.

Others

Well temperaments

I developed well temperaments on 12et and 17et which can be seen here.

I've also been trying to develop one on 19et but no satisfactory result as of now.

Q: What are the difficulties in developing a 19wt?

A: First, unlike 12- and 17et with ambiguous major and minor thirds, 19et's thirds are close enough to 5-limit JI that interpreting them otherwise is like a force. In 12- and 17et, those intervals can represent different ratios in different keys, whereas in 19et, they represent the same ratios better or worse in different keys. The effect isn't satisfactory. Second, the harmonics of 3, 5, 7, and 13 in 19et are all flat, so there's not much room to operate. Third, the ambiguity of 4\19 and 15\19 is an important characteritics, and those should be ambiguous in every key.

Q: What are the solutions?

A: For 19et to have any room to operate, octave stretch must be employed. For 4\19 and 15\19 not deviating too much, hemitwelfth is used as a generator.

Q: It's possible to make octave stretched well temperaments?

A: Yes it's possible. Just one more argument than pure-octave. Issue is I haven't got a satisfactory result.

See also