TY - JOUR
T1 - Tuning playfully
T2 - Composed and adaptive tunings in bitklavier
AU - Trueman, Dan
AU - Bhatia, Aatish
AU - Mulshine, Michael
AU - Trevisan, Theo
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Jeff Snyder for his feedback on the manuscript and the development of the various tuning systems. Thanks to Larry Polansky for his thorough review and suggestions. Support for bitKlavier has come from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for the Digital Humanities, the Council on Science andTechnology, and the Music Department at Princeton University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Combining a new software system with the familiar interface of the MIDI keyboard, bitKlavier is a versatile instrument for exploring the nature of tuning and temperament. We describe a number of approaches it facilitates, including composed tunings, moving fundamental systems, and a novel system for adaptive tuning. All of these are characterized by the overarching design priority for bitKlavier to be a context for musical play and exploration, as opposed to finding singular, “correct” solutions to particular tuning “problems,” as has often been the case historically.
AB - Combining a new software system with the familiar interface of the MIDI keyboard, bitKlavier is a versatile instrument for exploring the nature of tuning and temperament. We describe a number of approaches it facilitates, including composed tunings, moving fundamental systems, and a novel system for adaptive tuning. All of these are characterized by the overarching design priority for bitKlavier to be a context for musical play and exploration, as opposed to finding singular, “correct” solutions to particular tuning “problems,” as has often been the case historically.
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U2 - 10.1162/COMJ_a_00519
DO - 10.1162/COMJ_a_00519
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087590866
SN - 0148-9267
VL - 43
SP - 67
EP - 88
JO - Computer Music Journal
JF - Computer Music Journal
IS - 2-3
ER -