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~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. advant garde chamber collaboration ensemble Harmonic Series - un-octave-reduced harmonic series segment Prophet 12 module

Steve Layton’s The Summer’s Indecision in Harmonic Series Tuning

Steve Layton kindly provided the midi track for his awesome composition “The Summer’s Indecision” which I used to realize the three versions in harmonic series tuning presented below.

piano version download

Soniccouture’s The Hammersmith piano (x2) using Kontakt’s built in harmonic series tuning script.

ensemble version download

Soniccouture’s The Conservatore Colletion with the above instruments. The pitched instruments use the Soniccouture’s harmonics 16-32 Kontakt script.

synthesizer version download

Three tracks of Prophet 12 Desk Module using the built in harmonic series tuning. “MIDI notes 36-95 reflect harmonics 2 through 60 based on the fundamental of A = 27.5 Hz. The low C on a standard 5 octave keyboard acts as the root note (55Hz), and the harmonics play upwards from there. The remaining keys above and below the 5 octave range are filled with the same intervals as Carlos’ Harmonic 12 Tone that follows. – Wendy Carlos’ twelve note scale based on octave-repeating harmonics. A = 1/1 (440 Hz). 1/1 17/16 9/8 19/16 5/4 21/16 11/8 3/2 13/8 27/16 7/4 15/8”