Sevish Music

Sevish - Star Nursery (2021x25)

Air date: Nov 11, 2021

A musical improvisation using a golden ratio tuning and golden ratio related timbres. The tuning system I've used here repeats at acoustic phi (~833 cents or ~1.618) and the inner intervals are found by successively dividing the largest interval into golden proportions (i.e. dividing by logarithmic phi). The resulting scale is about as golden as you can get. This tuning approach is something that I wrote about in my 2017 article "The Golden Ratio as a musical interval" and in this 2021 recording I've finally used it. https://sevish.com/2017/golden-ratio-... An alternative tuning approach could be a rank-2 scale where the period is phi and the generator is (phi^phi)/phi or ~514 cents. Such a scale would be Moment of Symmetry (MOS) at 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 notes. Look familiar? Those are Fibonacci numbers! Of course it's not a coincidence. This scale is golden all the way down. I hope that interested readers try building this scale for themselves and sharing any discoveries.