Composing with Sound Week 5 Lecture

Table of Contents:

00:00 - Start
00:09 - Composing with Sound Lecture Week 5Pitch, tuning and scales
00:18 - Goals
01:18 - Recap - the harmonic series
02:07 - Recap - inharmonic sounds
02:23 - Recap - filtered noise
04:02 - Recap - mass or pitchedness
04:32 - Aren't pitches already organised?
05:10 - The harmonic series as a basis for pitch organisation
08:13 - The harmonic series as a basis for interval organisation
09:12 - Demonstration (auralization)
15:21 - The problem with harmonic pitch organization (just or natural tuning)
20:35 - The solution – equal temperament
21:41 - Equal temperament difference from the natural scale
22:50 - Scales and keyboards
23:57 - Scales and controllers (keyboards) white note theoryDerivation of the just diatonic scale from stacked major triads
24:20 - Scales and controllers (keyboards) white note theoryDerivation of the just diatonic scale from stacked major triads
25:35 - Scales and controllers (keyboards) white note theoryDiationic scale as a sequence of intervals
26:29 - Scales and controllers (keyboards) white note theoryMajor and minor thirds
26:57 - Scales and controllers (keyboards)White note triads
28:20 - Scales and controllers (keyboards)White note modes
29:23 - Scales and controllers (keyboards)Black note pentatonic
29:55 - MIDI Note numbers
30:25 - A final ‘note’ on pitches
32:03 - References
32:26 - Thinking ahead
32:45 - The end… questions??