RE: Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony
September 12, 2016 at 5:30 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2016 at 5:32 am by Alex K.)
(September 11, 2016 at 7:21 pm)bennyboy Wrote: When art meets science! Love it.
Yeah, right off the first C-chord you can hear that the just-tempered one has that choir-style "power major" sound, and leaves the equal-tuned on sounding distinctly flat.
To be honest, I find it very hard to hear any sourness in the jazz. I think it's because I'm so used to hearing jazz played on out-of-tune pianos anyway, and sourness is a proper part of the jazz palette anyway. I did notice an event at 1:16 in the first sample and 1:38 in the second (why the different timings?).
I just played both separately with two different tuning settings, and probably didn't exactly play the same thing twice. There's probably a way to play back a single Midi-recorded piece with different tunings, but I haven't found that button (or rather, sub-menu of the sub-menu) yet, so it's two separate recordings.
Quote: I wouldn't say either sounded "bad," but the second was definitely a more jarring moment. In a way I kind of enjoyed that little slap to the face.
To me the second one does indeed sound like it is played on a detuned bar piano. There appear to be some seriously flat notes in those 7,9 chords.
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