{"id":11494,"date":"2025-03-19T00:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T07:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=11494"},"modified":"2025-03-19T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:00:04","slug":"introducing-spherical-scale-1-by-rowan-holmes-realized-by-michael-w-dean-march-18-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=11494","title":{"rendered":"Introducing: Spherical Scale 1 (scale ratios by Rowan Holmes, realized by Michael W. Dean March 18, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1106\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Spherical-ScaleSongRough1mastered.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1106','https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Spherical-ScaleSongRough1mastered.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CatPrintPlayButton.jpg\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Spherical-ScaleSongRough1mastered.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?powerpress_pinw=11494-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Spherical-ScaleSongRough1mastered.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Spherical-ScaleSongRough1mastered.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11494-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Spherical-ScaleSongRough1mastered.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Spherical-ScaleSongRough1mastered.mp3\">https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Spherical-ScaleSongRough1mastered.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonalDiamondSphericalScale1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11508\" src=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonalDiamondSphericalScale1-349x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonalDiamondSphericalScale1-349x300.jpg 349w, https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonalDiamondSphericalScale1-524x450.jpg 524w, https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonalDiamondSphericalScale1-407x350.jpg 407w, https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonalDiamondSphericalScale1-768x660.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonalDiamondSphericalScale1-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonalDiamondSphericalScale1.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musical jam I did with this tuning is included.<\/p>\n<p>Rowan sent me this list as a thought experiment for a scale&#8230;various ratios involving <b><span class=\"texhtml mvar\">\u03c0<\/span><\/b> (Pi):<br \/>\n1, \u03c0\/12, \u03c0\/6, \u03c0\/4, \u03c0\/3, 5\u03c0\/12, \u03c0\/2, 7\u03c0\/12, 2\u03c0\/3, 3\u03c0\/4, 11\u03c0\/12 and \u03c0.<\/p>\n<p>I used GROK to convert it to numbers (rounded down to 2 places), then ratios, plugged them into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huygens-fokker.org\/scala\/\">SCALA<\/a>, made a file (<a href=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SphericalScale1.zip\">.MID file and .SCL tuning files\u00a0 zipped here<\/a>), and made this song using a VST I made, <a href=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=10403\">Microtone 5000<\/a>, after importing the tuning file.<\/p>\n<p>1\/1<br \/>\n13\/50<br \/>\n13\/25<br \/>\n79\/100<br \/>\n21\/20<br \/>\n131\/100<br \/>\n157\/100<br \/>\n183\/100<br \/>\n209\/100<br \/>\n59\/25<br \/>\n74\/25<br \/>\n157\/50<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musical jam I did with this tuning is included. Rowan sent me this list as a thought experiment for a scale&#8230;various ratios involving \u03c0 (Pi): 1, \u03c0\/12, \u03c0\/6, \u03c0\/4, \u03c0\/3, 5\u03c0\/12, \u03c0\/2, 7\u03c0\/12, 2\u03c0\/3, 3\u03c0\/4, 11\u03c0\/12 and \u03c0. I used GROK to convert it to numbers (rounded down to 2 places), then ratios, plugged them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biptunia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}