How we live and learn within our biological sonic limits defines our degrees of freedom. If I am hearing impaired and you are not, we are both determined, but you have greater degrees of freedom. Let us consider the frequency range of hearing for humans and various selected animals: SPECIES […]
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Tagged as: degrees of freedom,epistemology,Erv Wilson,Gary David,limits | Posted in: Epistemology
I really don’t like calling this a discussion of Philosophy. It’s not. We’re going to call it something else. Philosophy is on the second floor. (Review the Three Story Rap). Epistemology is on the 3rd floor. For some time, now, I have not seen Epistemology as a Branch of Philosophy. That definition is out of […]
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Tagged as: Alfred Korzybki,epistemology,Erv Wilson,limits,methods of thinking,non-aristotelian systems,semantics,Susanne Langer | Posted in: Epistemology
I was around 11 or 12 years old when I heard my grandfather, Joe Shikany, singing Arabic music with his friends. His eyes were tightly closed as he wailed “ya lay lee” accompanied by an oud (stringed instrument) and a doumbek (drum). There was a group of men sitting in a circle drinking Arak and […]
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Tagged as: degrees of freedom,Emil Richards,epistemology,Erv Wilson,Gary David,Harry Partch,limits,microtonal,personal reflections,Sound of Feeling | Posted in: Epistemology
A 1993 medley of musical cues written by Stephen James Taylor for Disney’s Timon and Pumbaa using Wilson’s “Meta-Ptolemy” tuning ratios. Hosted by the Sonic Sky SoundCloud
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Tagged as: Meta-Ptolemy,microtonal,Stephen James Taylor | Posted in: Music
Microtonal music from the Island of Anaphoria composed by Kraig Grady. Hosted by the Sonic Sky SoundCloud For more samples of Kraig Grady’s music visit http://anaphoria.com/samples.html
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Tagged as: Island of Anaphoria,Kraig Grady,microtonal | Posted in: Music
Microtonal music from Gary David’s 1968 progressive jazz group “The Sound of Feeling” using Wilson tuning structure known as the “Hexany.” Hosted by the Sonic Sky SoundCloud
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Tagged as: Erv Wilson,Gary David,Hexany,jazz,microtonal,Sound of Feeling | Posted in: Music
Marcus Hobbs techno piece using continuous MOS tuning. The scale itself does not stay still, it is in a constant state of flux. Hosted by the Sonic Sky SoundCloud
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Tagged as: continuous tuning,Marcus Hobbs,microtonal,moments of symmetry,techno | Posted in: Music
Stephen James Taylor takes an excursion into a 17 tone unequal scale derived from Wilson’s MOS pitch field. The note grouping and meter are also derived from the same numbers upon which the scale tuning is based. This is part of a work in progress being done in collaboration with painter, David Wien. Hosted by […]
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Tagged as: 17 tone unequal scale,David Wien,Erv Wilson,microtonal,moments of symmetry,Stephen James Taylor | Posted in: Music
Excerpt from a 20 movement work based on Wilson’s CPS scales generated by algorithmic methods.
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Tagged as: algorithmic methods,CPS scales,Dr. Warren Burt,Erv Wilson | Posted in: Music
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