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between
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difference/ between
in the first half .
the division
of the octave into twelve
equally, in the second - it's division into seven
(time and space)
what does the one tell us about the other?
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be-side
be-side is a
reworking,
the 'B side' if you like, of the second half of a piece originally
written for strings playing in a tuning based on the division of the
octave into seven equal steps. I have come to consider equal
temperaments, be they the division of the octave into twelve (Europe),
five (Indonesia) or seven (Indonesia, certain parts of Africa) as
analagous to consolidated forms of language such as BBC English,
Algemene Beschaafd Nederlands or Hoch Deutsch. These forms might be
considered as an evening-out of the various dialects out of which they
grew in a way analogous to the development of modern slendro or pelog
tunings out of a number of preceding scale forms. In this piece I have
chosen to work in the opposite direction, re-introducing irregularities
into the music that I had originally composed in the “high-language” of
an equal-seven scale.
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