A journey through the sky with four flying philosophers via transcendent tonality (in this case using 31 tone equal temperament and just intonation),. Music downloadable on itunes, amazon, cdbaby etc.
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Tagged as: 31 tone equal temperament,just intonation,philosophy,transcendent tonality | Posted in: Music
Music written by Stephen James Taylor within the paradigm of “Transcendent Tonality”, an emerging term that encompasses microtonality. In this case using a 17 tone per octave scale, unequal, derived from Ervin Wilson”s “Moments of Symmetry” tuning continuum. Underlying meter and rhythms follow same geometry of long and short steps as the consecutive scale intervals [...]
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Tagged as: 17 tone unequal scale,33/8 time,beat,Erv Wilson,meter,microtonal,moments of symmetry,rhythm,Stephen James Taylor,transcendent tonality | Posted in: Music
“I Like It Here” is an easy stroll through 31 equal temperament using some spicy chord juxtapositions. The chromatic microtones in the guitar line clearly identify it as 31. Check out the song now available on iTunes.
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Tagged as: 31 tone,chromatic microtones,guita,Stephen James Taylor | Posted in: Music
There has never been a recorded culture that did not make music. Harry Partch in Genesis Of A Music writes: Music, “good” or not “good,” has only two ingredients that might be called God-given: the capacity of a body to vibrate and produce sound and the mechanism of the human ear that registers it.” I [...]
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Tagged as: 12 tone equal,Gary David,Harry Partch,source scales,Western Music | Posted in: Epistemology
Previously, I outlined some of the innate limits of human hearing. Rather than seeing such limits as a barrier, I see them as necessary to creativity. Human feeling needs freedom, but our perceptions and cognitions need limits. How well we learn within our limits defines our degrees of freedom. The old philosophical argument regarding “free [...]
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Tagged as: 12 tone equal,epistemology,Erv Wilson,Gary David,limits | Posted in: Epistemology
A traditional Negro spiritual taken to a new dimension.
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Tagged as: 31 tone,microtonal,Stephen James Taylor,transcendent tonality | Posted in: Music
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
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