Brian McLaren's Posts
Under construction...Thanks to Jeff Scott who converted the
first 20 to HTML.
Brian is a very controversial thinker and an exasperating character. That's
what makes him so much fun. Here is a collection of his posts to the tuning
forum at Mill College. There are about 300 of these, and until I find a
.txt to .html converter that works, they will appear slowly and sometimes
in raw text form experimentally. If you get hash, come back later.
Index of McLaren Articles
1996 - Book review - part 2 of 2 --
the 1995 third edition of Juan Roederer's "The Physics and Psychophysics
of Music: an Introduction."
1996 - Combining different tunings
and "transferring" between different tunings
May 2, 1996 - Thorwald Kornerup's
Golden Section tuning (includes response by Chalmers)
1996 - Ensoniq & the collapse
of innovation in post-1988 synthesizer technology
1996 - Theory vs. reality -- Part
I of II (psychoacoustics; rich v. pure listeners)
1996 - Theory vs.reality -- Part
II of II (music icon predictions)
1996 - Tuning on modern synths
vs. antique early digital synths
1996 - unsavory habits of the
musical intelligentsia -- or -- the 12-TET musical elite have a point,
but if they comb their hair properly, it won't show
1996 - a new iterated function
for generating non-just non-equal-tempered tunings
1996 - Wilson CPS scales - post
1 of 9(# of tones in Wilson CPSs/Rules of thumb)
1996 - Wilson CPS scales - post
2 of 9(5 scales)
1996 - Wilson CPS scales - post
3 of 9(2 scales)
1996 - Wilson CPS scales - post
4 of 9(peculiar & interesting Wilson combination product set scales)
1996 - Wilson CPS scales - post
5 of 9(more scale examples)
1996 - Wilson CPS scales - post
6 of 9(modulation/timbre synthesis)
1996 - Wilson CPS scales - post
7 of 9(experts/a few of the more obvious extensions of the basic Wilson
CPS method of generating scales)
1996 - ~~~
1996 - Wilson CPS scales - post
8 of 9(subharmonic generators)
1996 - Wilson CPS scales - post
9 of 9(extensions of the Wilson CPS using embedded JI scales as generators)
1996 - Intonational heresy
1996 -
These have yet to be converted.
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