Hola, Que casualidad hoy en la mannana vi un articulo de este libro en el Leonardo Music Journal.
Saludos, Jose. --- Juan I Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > En referencia al famoso problema entre el arte > sonoro y la música. Me > acabo de encontrar este resumen hecho por Gareth Loy > que es uno de los > gurus del "Computer Music". Su libro "Musicmathics" > es otra de esas > biblias que hay tiene que tener para desenvolverse > en esta jungla. > Gareth Loy fue del grupo de Andy Moorer y John > Chowning en Stanford y > luego ellos con George Lucas crearon THX y Sonic > Solutions. > > Una pregunta buena al respecto serÃÂa: > > ÿ y que pasa con el oÃÂdo absoluto ? > > ==================================================================== > > How is it that we ended up with the 12-note scale? > Why are their > variations, and why do cultures make different > choices? It's all > based on psychoacoustics. > > Musical Scale Designers -- the First > Psychoacousticians > > Principles of psycoacoustics and information theory > are fundamental > to the design of musical scales used the world over > and through > history, and historical scale designers were > arguably the first > psychoacousticians. Musical scales are also the > quintessential > introduction to the mathematics of music, a subject > that is > arbitrarily deep and completely rewarding. > > Questions entertained will include: why are musical > scales organized > the way they are? Why is most Western music based on > scales made up > of seven tones but there are twelve tones per > octave? What does > ââ¬Åequal-temperedââ¬ï¿½ mean, and why after all these > centuries is it still > controversial? What choices have other cultures made > about > intonation, and why? What can we learn about > ourselves, our music, > and our culture by taking a careful look at the > underlying mathematics? > > If I have the time, I'll finish off with a small > discovery regarding > the construction of the 22-sruti Hindu scale. > > Gareth Loy is the author of Musimathics (two > volumes) published by > the MIT Press. Somewhere between a tutorial and a > desk reference, > Musimathics is an encompassing review of a wide > range of mathematical > disciplines relevant to music including (vol. 1) > acoustics, > psychoacoustics, musical scales, musical instrument > design, > composition, and (vol. 2) signal processing. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ____ _ _ ___ _ _ ____ ___ ___ > |___ \/ |__] \_/ |___ / |__] > |___ _/\_ | | |___ /__ | > > expyezp mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slow.tk/listinfo.cgi/expyezp-slow.tk > ____________________________________________________________________________________Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC _______________________________________________ ____ _ _ ___ _ _ ____ ___ ___ |___ \/ |__] \_/ |___ / |__] |___ _/\_ | | |___ /__ | expyezp mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slow.tk/listinfo.cgi/expyezp-slow.tk
