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Meditation on 5/4
By M Ryan Taylor on Feb 13, 2008 | In Other | Send feedback »
Meditation on 5/4
as performed by the incomparable Neil Thornock
This is one of my experiments in just intonation. The electronic organ in the recording has been tuned to have perfect major-thirds (5/4) throughout its range, thus there are no octaves. This "meditation" explores a few of the possibilities of this strange tuning system.
Unfortunately, it would be extremely difficult to recreate this piece live. So the recording is all there is of it.
If the term just intonation means nothing to you, I suggest visiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation. It’s worth learning about.