The tuning and scale intervals for this piece comprise a superparticular mode of the sixth octave of the harmonic series; thus, it is a 32-tone scale with intervals in successive simple ratios beginning 33:32, 34:33, 35:34, etc., and continuing through 64:63. The recording of this piece is entirely the product of digital audio synthesis, sampling, sequencing, and processing.
*edited to fit text field* 0: 1/1 0.0000 1: 33/32 53.272 2: 17/16 104.96 3: 35/32 155.14 4: 9/8 203.91 5: 37/32 251.34 6: 19/16 297.51 7: 39/32 342.48 8: 5/4 386.31 9: 41/32 429.06 10: 21/16 470.78 11: 43/32 511.52 12: 11/8 551.32 13: 45/32 590.22 14: 23/16 628.27 15: 47/32 665.51 16: 3/2 701.96 17: 49/32 737.65 18: 25/16 772.63 19: 51/32 806.91 20: 13/8 840.53 21: 53/32 873.50 22: 27/16 905.87 23: 55/32 937.63 24: 7/4 968.83 25: 57/32 999.4 26: 29/16 1029.6 27: 59/32 1059.2 28: 15/8 1088.3 29: 61/32 1116.9 30: 31/16 1145.0 31: 63/32 1172.7
Peter Hulen is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Wabash College, Southwest of Indianapolis, where he teaches music theory, composition, electronic music, and all-college humanities courses. For fun, he plays in a pretty good Renaissance recorder consort, sings in a very good choir, landscape gardens, cooks unhealthy food, and tries to maintain some kind of spiritual practice.