[CM] translating spirals into music CLM

[Rick Taube]

johannes quint has an example of shepard tones in his course  
materials. the s.t. are the most obvious spiral sound i can think of  
off hand.
it would be trivial to rewrite the code for fm-violin


http://www.johannes-quint.de/cm/html/shepard.html


On Jul 11, 2007, at 10:17 AM, john henry dale wrote:

> Hi,
> This is a rather conceptual question, but I am interested in trying  
> to somehow represent the concept of a spiral in CLM. I figure this  
> would probably involve the golden ratio and fibonacci series  
> number, but I am stuck as to how to begin and how this "sound  
> spiral" would actually sound. This corresponds to my earlier  
> question about just intonation, because according to Alain Danielou  
> ( in his book Music and the Power of Sound), the circle of fifths  
> originated from a "spiral of fifths", which was modified by either  
> slightly sharping or flatting certain notes to get equal  
> temperament for the pianoforte; just intonation, according to him,  
> was a truer representation of the "pure" musical intervals that  
> occurred in nature, so to speak. I guess my goal here is try to  
> somehow represent the concept of the spiral both melodically and  
> rhythmically in CLM since this pattern seems to inform so much of  
> how of and why things evolve the way they do. This could obviously  
> get very complicated and beyond the timeframe I have to complete my  
> project, so I'm hoping for short but potent bits of information  
> here. Sorry to lay such a huge question on what is generally a  
> fairly practical discussion list, but I need to find ways of  
> narrowing the focus of this idea soon.
> Thanks much,
> JHD
>