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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 00:26:00 EDT Matthew Skala

Alternate harmony with additive synthesis https://northcoastsynthesis.com/blogs/news/alternate-harmony-with-additive-synthesis
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  Music as we know it today has evolved rules and practices that make it easy to choose notes which will sound good together. When you choose a standard diatonic scale like say F major (that is: F, G, A, B♭, C, D, E) you get a set of notes that almost all sound good together pairwise (with the exception of the tritone E and B♭) because they have a lot of shared harmonics. Musicologists argue endlessly about how mathematically necessary this system is. Does it sound good because it is some kind of optimum in terms of shared harmonics, and shared harmonics are really important in a way that goes beyond human assumptions? Or is just that we have trained ourselves to expect to hear the diatonic scale?

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