User:Lucius Chiaraviglio

Introduction

Although I have yet to compose anything, I have on occasion thought that "notes between the notes" (to borrow a term from _Hear Between the Lines_) would be fitting in certain circumstances. Several months ago, I stumbled upon the great radiation of microtonal music that is occurring on YouTube thanks to the advent of (semi-)affordable microtonal keyboards and software synthesizers that actually sound good. Surprisingly, the recent microtonal profusion seems to have a great overlap with a profusion of new classical music. In addition, I have found interest in old music that would now be thought of as xenharmonic, such as early Baroque works in quarter-comma meantone. And even if I never compose any microtonal music myself, this experience, including readings on this Xenharmonic Wiki, have been a wild ride in learning what it is that makes today's dominant system of 12 equally spaced notes per octave actually work well.

Added: Lucius Chiaraviglio (talk) 10:14, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Keyboard Layout Lab

The following pages have keyboard layouts gleaned from other sources (with links to demonstration videos, whenever possible), as well as some untested layouts that might be of interest to others. These have gotten so numerous that they have had to be reorganized repeatedly to avoid the "Template include too large" error (apparently, you can't have more than 11 Lumatone mappings on one page. I have to keep reorganizing these Lumatone mappings, as they have proliferated due to the Lumatone wizardry of Bryan Deister, who has invented most of the Lumatone mappings that have been shown to work whether or not a temperament is readily identifiable. Bryan Deister isn't afraid to come up with a musically workable Lumatone mapping without an identified temperament and still have an excellent chance of playing something that sounds good on it, while engaging in a quest play in every EDO from 1 to 100. Respect.

Keyboard Layout Lab (the main and original page for this) has miscellaneous mappings having identified temperaments. As these accumulate to multiple mappings for a temperament or group of temperaments, these get split out to sub-pages.

Devichromic Lumatone mappings. Currently one of the newer sub-pages, this originated from Bryan Deister's Lumatone mapping for 69edo, but has proliferated into a whole set of various EDO sizes to investigate how it performs, with most sizes currently being untested.

Miracle and Marvel Lumatone mappings. Currently one of the newer sub-pages, this originated from multiple Marvel and Miracle Lumatone mappings starting to accumulate, as noted above for the main page.

Valentine Lumatone mappings were the first to get their own page, due to their profusion causing dreaded "template include too large" error as these expanded to several (mostly as-yet untested) mappings for different EDO sizes, due to the observation that this mapping should really shine at the larger double-digit EDO sizes. Most sizes are currently untested.

Various rank-3 temperament Lumatone mappings are the latest to have to get their own page due to the dreaded "template include too large" error, as Bryan Deister's Lumatone wizardry goes wild filling in the larger EDO sizes.

Various other Lumatone mappings soon also had to get their own page due to the dreaded "template include too large" error.

Added: Lucius Chiaraviglio (talk) 06:31, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Last modified: Lucius Chiaraviglio (talk) 06:03, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Musical Mad Science

The following pages are for various musical mad science projects

Musical Mad Science has various other ramblings.

Added: Lucius Chiaraviglio (talk) 04:53, 18 March 2025 (UTC)
Last modified: Lucius Chiaraviglio (talk) 06:32, 31 May 2025 (UTC)