On Thursday 05 April 2007, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:34:23PM -0400, Charles Linart wrote: > > > There are 12 frequencies of sound that are recognized by the human ear > > > as musical notes. > > > > That's completely wrong. Your recognise notes because you have been > > conditioned for them. It could be any set of frequencies. > > I don't think so. Though the frequency relations used in the scales all > over this world might differ, almost all do have some relation to the > natural harmonic series.. > > So the details might differ, but the big picture is the same :) Btw: i do not want to imply that it is impossible to make music with pitch collections that don't resemble any known scale based on harmonics.. I once played with random frequencies in supercollider. The result is a bit boring, but has very interesting textures at times.. http://tapas.affenbande.org/boggle_toggle,ogg So it is very possible to use weird or strange pitch collections, but i suppose there is something to how harmonics and slight deviations thereof sound that make them especially appealing to the human listener.. Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
