Thomas A. Poulsen
A mathematician working in biotechnology. Also trying to make music with computers.
Session
07-12
11:40
10min
Exploring musical tunings with Julia
Thomas A. Poulsen
The equal-tempered 12-tone scale is ubiquitous in modern western music.
It is characterized by successive semi-tones having a constant frequency ratio of 2^(1/12) ≈ 1.06.
But there are many other ways to define tunings of musical instruments, and Julia is a great tool for exploring these tuning systems. The talk will demonstrate how I have used Julia to generate tones and explore tuning systems visually and auditory.
General
Method (1.5)