World Wide Web and Internet References
- Alternate tuning mailing list, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/ [This group and
continually discuss techniques of creating and analyzing music that is outside
the Western tradition.]
- How harmonic are harmonics? http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/harmonics.html [Discussion
of inharmonicities in strings and air column instruments.]
- Classical MIDI Archives, http://www.classicalarchives.com/ [Thousands of standard
MIDI files are available here free for listening, studying, and enjoying.]
- Content Organs http://www.content-organs.com [An organ maker that offers
the hermode tuning in its organs.]
- Corporeal Meadows http://www.corporeal.com/ [Website devoted to Harry Partch.
Partch's music, instruments, and personality are all profiled here.]
- J. deLaubenfels, "Adaptive Tuning Web Site", http://www.adaptune.com/.
[Also, see John's personal web page at http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/j/d/jdelaub/jstudio.htm
for sound examples and further details on the spring method of adaptive
tuning.]
- ECE330: Signals and Systems Prof. Sethares'
class website for the course on Fourier transforms is: ../classes/ece330.html,
while the official university websites are: http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ece/courses/ece330.html and http://courses.engr.wisc.edu/ecow/get/ece/330/.
- P. Erlich on Harmonic Entropy http://tonalsoft.com/td/erlich/entropy.htm [Erlich discusses
models of harmonic entropy in a series of posts to the Tuning Digest beginning
in Sept. 1997.]
- P. Erlich, "The forms of tonality",
http://lumma.org/tuning/erlich/
Also available on the CD TTSS/PDF/erlich-forms.pdf.
[Concepts of tone-lattices, scales, and notational systems for 5-limit and
7-limit music.]
- P. Frazer, Midicode Synthesizer http://www.midicode.com [Implements a method of dynamic
retuning in a software syntheizer.]
- Freenote Music http://microtones.com/ [Dedicated to microtonal guitars
and recordings.]
- Frog Peak Music http://www.frogpeak.org/ [This composer's collective is
a gold mine of alternatively tuned music.]
- The Justonic Tuning System http://www.justonic.com/ [Jutonic's pitch palette uses
any 12-tone just, or harmonic scale to create a 3-dimensional array of tones
which can be used to automatically retune a synthesizer as it plays.]
- The Hermode Tuning http://www.hermode.com/ [A form of automated tuning implemented
in the Waldorf Virus C synthesizer. Website has good demonstrations of the
uses of adaptive tunings.]
- Institute for Psychoacoustics and Music http://www.ipem.rug.ac.be/ [Part of the University of
Ghent, IPEM is Belgium's premier center for electronic music.]
- Keyfax Software http://www.keyfax.com [Professionally recorded standard
MIDI files.]
- Make Micro Music mailing list, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/ [This group
and continually discuss techniques of creating and analyzing music that
is outside the Western tradition.]
- Making Microtonal Music Website http://www.microtonal.org/ [A gathering point for people
who are actively making microtonal music, and for those who would like to
join them.]
- Mark of the Unicorn http://www.motu.com/ [Makers of music hardware and software,including
Digital Performer, a MIDI and audio sequencer.]
- Matlab http://www.mathworks.com/
[General purpose programming language common in signal processing and engineering:
"the language of technical computing."]
- Max 4.0 Reference Manual http://www.cycling74.com/products/dldoc.html [Website
of Cycling `74, distributers of Max programming language.]
- Metasynth http://www.uisoftware.com/ [A powerful graphic tool for
sound manipulation and visualization.]
- Microtonal Dictionary of Tuning Terms
http://tonalsoft.com/ [Joe
Monzo's online dictionary of musical/tuning terms is an excellent resource.]
- MIDI file formats described http://www.sonicspot.com/guide/midifiles.html
- W. Mohrlok, The Hermode Tuning System. This provides
a comprehensive description of the operation of the hermode tuning, and
is available on the CD in TTSS/pdf/hermode.pdf.
- Scala Homepage http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/ [Powerful software
tool for experimentation with musical tunings.]
- Sethares, W. A., Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale ../index.html
- Smith, J. O. "Bandlimited interpolation - interpretation and algorithm,"
- http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~jos/resample/
[Excellent discussion of audio signal processing with focus on interpolation
techniques.]
- John Starrett's Microtonal Music http://www.nmt.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html [Great resource
for microtonal music, instruments, and tools.]
- Tune Smithy http://www.tunesmithy.connectfree.co.uk/ [A program for
algorithmic music composition that includes extensive microtonal support
and a dynamic tuning feature.]
- Vicentino's adaptive-JI of 1555 http://tonalsoft.com/monzo/vicentino/vicentino.htm [Vicentino's
"Second tuning of 1555" is composed of two chains of 1/4-comma
meantone that can avoid comma drift.]
- Access "Virus" Synthesizer http://www.access-music.de/ [The hermode tuning is available
in the Virus synthesizer.]