Row, Row, Row Your Boat in 31 E.T.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2011
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat is opened up to a wider tone field as we hop parallel universes of sound and illustrate the differences, similarities, and how they interact.
Stephen James Taylor is on a 31 Tone Vibraphone. For the uninitiated, E.T. stands for Equal Temperament.
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Great analogy to explain 31TET! At the risk of blowing people's minds, the problem with the 12 tone scale is that your *real* brother, mother & father are living in the alternate universes, while the people you call your brother, mother & father are actually clones 1" shorter. In technical terms, for example, if you take an A (440 Hz), its *real* 5th is E (660 Hz), but due to equal temperament tuning, conventional pianos give us his clone E' (659.255 Hz). Even worse for the major 3rd C# (556.875 Hz) and its evil clone which the piano actually gives us, C#' (554.365 Hz). So my friends who are stuck with equal tempered instruments like the piano, guitar, etc, we are living a lie with false friends & family. Which begs the question: WHO THE HECK IS BOFFING MY REAL GIRLFRIEND????!!!
String and voice can be played without equal temperament.
This analogy is a wild exageration. If 12-TET didn't exist, modern music wouldn't be possible on the piano, guitar or other instruments.
I'm sure you are aware of why we actually use 12-TET: because every key is EQUALLY, a little out of tune. So we can play in all 12 keys without re-tuning the instrument when switchinf keys. This is what makes the harmonies of jazz and modern classical music possible - all those weird, interesting chords and modulations would sound way out of tune!
Besides, this hatred for 12-TET has become some kind of a conspiracy theory at this point - like in your analogy, people claim that 12-TET is taking something away from them, while in reality it is the very thing that has enabled new genres of music to be born. Also, wind instruments, brass instruments and bowed string instruments don't use 12-TET at all! THAT'S 99% OF A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, NOT USING 12-TET!
No one is forcing anyone to use 12-TET either! In fact, I can think of countless examples in popular music where 12-TET wasn't used: first of all, every strings-only piece ever performed, and every wind or brass-only piece. Jacob Collier also (famously) uses just intonation in some parts of his songs, and plays around with the tuning. A good example is also RHCP's song Scar Tissue: Frusciante's guitar is not tuned to 12-TET.
If I would have to make an analogy of my own, it would be this: 12-TET is like living with your own house, a wife, kids and a stable office job - it's everything you need and it keeps you happy, but sometimes you get bored and might wanna do something more interesting, that is, step outside 12-TET to explore different sounds. No, 12-TET is not like all your friends being replaced with not-quite-perfect clones, get real you conspiracy theorist -sounding know-it-all.
@@waterlubber yeah but most of thr time its accompanying other instruments like piano or guitar(with fixed metal frets) so you have to adjus to equal temperament
Maybe you're REAL GIRLFRIEND wasn't okay with you being one inch shorter.
@@leigel3 LMAO…good one! 😂😂😂
Sounds like Gamalan at the end, (except 31 instead of 6 tones :D )
It's Gamelan (Guh-mell-lahn)
PS: I'm Indonesian
he should've played it the way its "supposed" to sound in 31TET - using 31TET approximations of the just intervals involved in the song in place of the 12TET approximations.
Aaron Van Meter I think he did.
Not necessarily, some of the best applications of microtonality explore subverting the expectations of 12TET and just intonation to create harmonic interest and tension.
@@tombruges1557 agree, tuning to JI is easier than playing JI in 31EDO.
SJT is truly exceptional, and always has been! He does day-to-day what I wish I had time to do. Retirement in a few more years!
This in particular is “just a little ditty,” so to speak, but the real treasure here is how he thinks about it - clones finishing each other’s sentences, taller and shorter, etc.
Pure Magic! Stephen is definitely onto something Extraordinary!
I didn't know anybody had even made a 31EDO vibraphone. Cool to see what it actually looks like.
Might be hard to use a marimba made this way unless you had really long arms, due to the greater size of the blocks (unless you made it not go as low in range as a normal marimba).
This is awesome! I totally want to try playing on that instrument. I also would love to hear an extended song or piece written for or improvised on this instrument! I want to hear more of the sound possibilities of this tuning system!
f bro used the alternate universe analogy i love this guy oml 🙇🏾🤣
God bless the algorithm that brought me to this
Whoa, absolutely mind blowing 🤯
oh your killing me. you just get started and then walk away
row, row, row, row, row, row, row, row your boat
I feel like people are attracted to 31TET more because of its harmonic possibilities (it being a very accurate approximation of 11-limit harmony), but yes it also has new melodic possibilities that are drastically different from 12-equal as demonstrated by this video.
19-TET also makes that distinction.
Amazing! thank you for this video
I am a bit confused, because when you explain that you have your whole 12EDO set in the middle and then you have on either side slightly sharper or flatter sets of 12EDO too, my first assumption is that you have actually created a 36EDO tuning system here. Could you explain to me, please, how your setup is different? Is the central set actually in a standard 12 tone tuning as I thought you implied, or are the notes there the closest ones you could map from 31ET?
The one he has definitely has 31 notes because if you look at how many "black key" rows there are in relation to the white key rows, there is one less, which means that since there are 3 white key rows (21 notes), there are 2 black key rows (10 notes), together making 31. If there was another black key row on either side to complete each individual "keyboard", then it would be 36
Piano white keys are in the center, C scale = 7 unique notes, add the 7 half flats, 7 half sharps = 21 + 5 sharp notes + 5 flat keys = 31
He says you don't hear anything different, but I thought the third version ("one inch taller") sounded like crap from the first note he hit.
I lost it from when he said.. "Now, in a parallel universe" The last thing he played sounded like shit to me.
That's only because you were comparing it to the earlier tones played -- even if unintentionally. I could even achieve the same effect on a plain old 12-tone keyboard, which just goes to show it's hard to un-hear things.
"Life is but a dream" became "life is but an acid trip" haha. Sounds amazing!
Much appreciated. thx
i remember 13-14 yo me laughin my guts out. now im 20 n i still am, tbh
Mind = Blown
Good job.
An interesting way of looking at it
*but* *is* *it* *tuned* *to* *432* *Hz* ?
I’m not really a fan of 432hz tuning, it just sounds kinda flat
where can I get a 31tet vibraphone like that??!! I'm a vibraphonist and I'd LOVE to try it out!
Toda mi vida como musico autodidacta cante notas, que me decían que estaban mal, desafinadas, y yo decía -no, no está esa nota en el instrumento, -entonces no existe. Hace poco descubro la música microtonal . Siento muy lindas las sextas especialmente la quinta aumentada, la segunda desapareció, la quinta disminuida la separaron en pedazos, la cuarta está estresada, y por las séptimas aparecieron seres nuevos. Estoy absolutamente fascinado que las posibilidades expresivas por descubrir. Con niño en juguetería. También me da la sensación que se apagan o fluctúan algunas, sobre todo cuando se va apagando el sonido.
Yo toco la guitarra y el bajo, al cual lo convertiré en fretless. Me podrían recomendar como empezar. Con 17 19 22 31? o ir directamente al teclado? el tema que no tengo técnica en piano y tampoco tengo dinero para comprar instrumentos que no sean económicos,. Ya estoy pensando como hago para que mi amigo luthier se anime a hacerme una. Trabajo de profe de matemáticas en la secundaria. Saludos.
Ah me hubiera gustado escuchar los intervalos de novenas, etc y tambien triadas. Voy a ver si alguien lo hizo :)
Still not sure how three different 12-tone scales add up to 31 instead of 36.
Mother and father is more like the fifth and fourth :)
a block can become a note by itself ^^
Cool, cyclic quarter comma meantone with purer 7th, 11th and 13th harmonics, lets just play mocking glissandi!
Aaah
I want an instrument like that! D:
Make it yourself. Sorry ;(
pvc pipe xylophone might be easier to make
O.O I know you from Deviantart. Never thought to see you here!
Good idea. I'll work on that.
Surfing the Sonic Sky you're only supposed to use 12 notes at a time in any given key. The rest are for tuning purposes, not for compositional purposes.
@@JohnSmith-iu3jg What the hell is that supposed to mean?
@@JohnSmith-iu3jg microtonal music: The future is now, old man!
Ничего не понял, но очень понравилось.
Hilarious ! Wow, I didn't even know I had stolen it. Hey maybe it will help me get into the Hayden Planetarium for free.
Я заметил, что в микротоновой музыке 90% составляют разговоры. :-)
Right, that's because these deluded folks have nothing to offer other than their erroneous and nonsensical opinions without even knowing how music works.
Walter Bishop would be impressed
Oh dear
When he started comparing the notes to relatives, I thought he was going to use an Alabama joke to introduce the microtones.
That thing looks like it's set up in a very logical fashion did you build it yourself?
intrestin
Cool intro to microtonality
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How did you steal Niel Degrasse Tyson's Voice?
Too many words, too little music.
This does not sound very good and this is an incorrect use of 31 EDO (if that is really the tuning you are using) This tuning is not designed for 12 EDO songs, and this video makes it look like microtonal music has much less potential than it actually does.
I really enjoyed this kind of sound, and see similar ideas pop up in my own music frequently, though not to that extreme. Switching between instruments, and therefore tuning profiles, is enough of a timbral variation on fixed tones for me lol, and a hocket is a lot easier to notate than a +12TET tuning system on the page lol