[UC-ODDMUSIC] 88-cent equal temperament choir meets tomorrow at 1:00!

[Jacob Barton]

time correction: 10:00 a.m. choir @ "Mansion".  --jb

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Andrew Heathwaite <gtrpkt at yahoo.com>wrote:

> A friendly reminder:  The 88-cent equal temperament choir (who were
> phantasmagorically spectacular in our first rehearsal today) is scheduled to
> meet tomorrow morning, Thursday 4/21, at "the Mansion," 606 Ohio St, Urbana.
>
> And: the Performatorium is tomorrow night!  Performers: get in touch if you
> want to perform and show up by 7:00!  For audience, consider yourself
> invited to see the latest performance traces from the School for Designing a
> Society and Microtonal Design UnConference.  The show takes place in the IMC
> and starts at 8 pm tomorrow night, 4/21.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Andrew Heathwaite <gtrpkt at yahoo.com>
> *To:* SDaS Current <sdas-current at googlegroups.com>; SDaS listserv <
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> *Sent:* Tue, April 19, 2011 10:19:03 PM
> *Subject:* 88-cent equal temperament choir meets tomorrow at 1:00!
>
> The group that met tonight for the Microtonal Design UnConference Meet and
> Greet has an interest in singing together in a tuning called 88-cent equal
> temperament, towards generating pieces and performing them this week.  None
> of us have tried this yet.  You can join us!
>
> We're meeting from 1:00 to 2:30 tomorrow (Wednesday 4/20) at the Family
> Room of the IMC, then from 10 am to noon the next day (Thursday 4/21) at
> "the Mansion" (606 Ohio St, Urbana).  We're likely to meet again after that
> and perform on Thursday night for the Performatorium (7:30 to 9:30) and/or
> the Oddmusic Instrument Expo (Saturday 4/23, 2 to 5).  I mention all that to
> give you a good idea of the commitment involved, if you don't already know.
> We're in the throes of an UnConference, after all!
>
> If you'd like to join us and you weren't in the group that met tonight
> (it's entry level -- like I said, none of us have done this before) then
> please email me.  We'd love to have you!
>
> Much love,
> Andrew
>
> = = = = =
>
> 88-cent equal temperament (or 88cET) is a tuning system derived by stacking
> an interval of 88 cents (that's exactly 88% of a 12-equal half step).  The
> tuning thus generated contains no octaves!  The octave is 1200 cents.  See
> how 88cET misses the octave:
>
> 88
> 176
> 264
> 352
> 440
> 528
> 616
> 704
> 792
> 880
> 968
> 1056
> 1144
> 1232
> ...
>
> This is only one of the intriguing things about this tuning.  Come tomorrow
> to find out more!
>



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