Hello new followers! Does anyone have contacts in ethnomusicology? Preferably folks who grew up among non-Western traditions, as there is no shortage of well-meaning Westerners who dabble in other traditions.
As chair of the MIDI 2.0 Pitch and Tuning subcommittee I'm looking for connections with practitioners of underrepresented musical traditions, to inform us as we lay the groundwork for a next-gen standard which isn't quite so piano-shaped.
I think that if you got in touch with the people behind the ABC notation standard, they might be able to help you out.
@Tathar My focus is primarily on expanding MIDI to tuning systems and traditions that cannot be trivially expressed in diatonic or chromatic systems like ABC notation.
A problem with today's predominant technologies is that they subordinate non-Western traditions to Western ones by defining them in terms of exceptions or deviations from a twelve-note scale — or put them in the same "other" bucket as modern experimental scales.
Ah, that makes sense. Seems I misunderstood what you were asking. Still, they might have the connections you're looking for.
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@evan To be clear, I am Greek and grew up listening to Byzantine music in church.
In short, in Western music you divide the octave into 12 equal parts in order to start constructing your scales. In #ByzantineMusic we have 72 equal parts.
I could start describing some of our scales for you, but I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for. Also ideally I'd run everything through my teacher first. ☺
@jchillerup Western in this context would mean Western Art Music, a set of traditions with roots particularly around Italy and Southwest Europe which were elevated as a standard, sometimes forcefully, for music around the world. Scholars like Khyam Allami can speak to this better than I can.
Anyway, I would certainly be interested in connections with Sami music.
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@evan I met a musicologist here a few days ago:
Maybe he can help, or knows someone who can.
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