The equal temperament: technical aspects and their applications in digital instruments

• Grant number: 16/09525-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: February 01, 2017
• End date: July 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Music
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Regis Rossi Alves Faria
• Grantee: Micael Antunes da Silva
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to research the technical aspects of the tuning system as an equal temperament and its practical application in digital instruments. Based on the concept of sensory dissonance, the work will start explaining the reasons why certain musical intervals are privileged in different tuning systems, including temperament alike. From this foundation, we will discuss issues concerning the systematization of temperament alike, having as reference articles that explore in various divisions of the octave, based on the writings of Blackwood and in some experiments like Krantz and Douthett, Klerk and Fuller. We will take The Easley Blackwood's Twelve Microtonal Studies, as an hearing reference to illustrate the system studied. After the theoretical approach, our project aims at implementing the content addressed in the construction of digital instruments, based on the ideas of relations between scales and spectra learned from the Pierce's octatonic scale, the Bohlen-Pierce scale and Willian Sethares model. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SILVA, Micael Antunes da. Redução da dissonância sensorial em uma escala temperada utilizando timbres inarmônicos: uma abordagem experimental e aplicações artísticas. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) São Paulo.