Thank you, patrons!
This month has been... complex. Without going into detail, it just means I don't have free time to spend on developing music theory stuff, and even my work on the book has been on hold.
Tha...
The Exciting Universe Of Music Theory posts
Slow progress, but still happening
Hi Patrons!
It's been a few weeks since my last update, and I like to keep my patrons updated regularly with what's going on. I haven't really been doing much work on the Music Theory stuff ...
A bit of progress on the book
Howdy patrons! Just a mini-update. I've made some progress on the section about degenerate well-formed scales; this was with a little help from Paul Sherrill (PhD), a music theorist and professor a...
2020-06-12 17:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostMini update
Firstly, thanks to the new patrons who have joined this crew! My gratitude is profound, because tada! the patronage from everyone combined is enough to offset the monthly server hosting costs. Not ...
2020-06-06 15:50:37 +0000 UTC View PostDistance Models
Did some more work on the book tonight. Since there was already a section about generators, it was a great excuse to sneak in an extra bit about "distance models", a fairly obscure little nugget fr...
2020-05-24 07:28:03 +0000 UTC View PostTons of errata in the scale names
Yo! I've been busy-busy tackling a difficult set of corrections in the set of scale names. As you might know, the scale name collection is a motley and messy aggregate from a bunch of publicly-avai...
2020-05-18 07:21:44 +0000 UTC View PostScope Creep
Drat... I really wasn't intending to do this, but I don't think I can write this book without mentioning, and explaining, a bit about Moments Of Symmetry and Erv Wilson and that means stepping into...
2020-05-13 16:48:35 +0000 UTC View PostFor Patrons Only: one sub-topic
No promises that this will stay as is, but for now I've got this section about Cardinality pretty nailed down with the wording and facts. I've been hesitant to post excerpts so far because the text...
2020-05-08 16:32:23 +0000 UTC View PostNot a lot of work done, but I did find some nifty stuff
Since my last patrons-only update I was contacted by two different scholars regarding some theory stuff, that I'll share with you...
the first was a British academic who is doing some deep ...
Table of Contents, of the work in progress
For weeks as I've been writing the book, I've also been digging through my theory materials & sources and organizing all the concepts into chapters. Here's a preview of what it looks like so fa...
2020-03-22 16:29:57 +0000 UTC View PostHeteromorphic Profiles
Howdy patrons!
Last night I completed another complicated bit of coding for the scale details: a metric called the "heteromorphic profile".
Near the bottom of the "Analysis" section t...
Selfie Transformations
As of this morning, all scale detail pages show which transformations will map a scale onto itself. Obviously T0 is always one but lots of scales have symmetry either by rotation, reflection, or M5...
2020-03-16 13:38:54 +0000 UTC View PostOne more thing... just for Patrons
another thing I didn't mention.
As I work on this book, I will have completed chapters that I'll post for you to read, not just for your amusement but also hoping that you can engage in a li...
New stuff on Transformations, and more.
Hi patrons! I've been plugging away at the book and have a pretty solid scaffolding for all the chapters, as well as some sections of them written and completed. The diligence of researching this b...
2020-03-14 12:15:34 +0000 UTC View PostGenerators
Hi patrons! Last night I wrote some code to calculate the generator of any scale, if one exists. A generator is an interval; a scale is a “generated scale” if you can start at one tone and trav...
2020-03-03 13:10:34 +0000 UTC View PostSo... I'm writing a book
It started as a small endeavour just to turn the scale detail pages into single-page PDF handouts... then I decided to add a preface with some explanation of the terms and stats... and that has exp...
2020-02-28 04:22:02 +0000 UTC View PostStarting a book
It might take a long time getting it prepared, but I have started compiling all the set theory stuff into a printable / e-book format. Eventually, there will be an Exciting Universe book. We’ll s...
2020-02-16 00:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy Patrons
Hi! I have nothing new to post today, but I just thought I'd check in with a general update. It's been a few days since the enormous "scale detail" video project completed, so I took some time away...
2020-01-21 05:12:13 +0000 UTC View PostNew Instruction Video
Hey patrons! I finished this one last night, and uploaded it a few minutes ago. Enjoy!
2019-11-27 18:00:49 +0000 UTC View PostAdding credits to the new videos
Hi! Just wanted to let all my patrons know, that I'm busy rendering all the new "scale detail' videos, and patron credits are being added to the end. But alas due to Youtube upload quotas, I can no...
2019-11-05 04:34:22 +0000 UTC View PostNew stuff!
Hi Patrons!
I just published all the "common triad" stuff onto the scale detail pages. It only shows on the page if there is 1 or more triad that appears in the scale. Here's a good example:
New materials
Here's a sample of things to come... several days of hard work using ornery technology, boiled down to a few seconds of video. This stuff was inspired by a paper titled "A Graph-Theoretic Approach ...
2019-08-22 04:06:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhat I'm working on
Hey patrons! A quick update to let you know what's happening in the Exciting Universe. It came to my attention that in my theory pages about scales, some of the notated examples were using weird sp...
2019-08-15 13:32:36 +0000 UTC View PostNew Stuff!
Yo patrons! On my vacation I read some nifty papers by music nerds and came away with a new concept for the scale study. Invented by David Rappoport, the "interior area" is what you get when you ma...
2019-07-30 16:40:52 +0000 UTC View PostNew Video: a selection of Jazz and Blues scales
hey! I'm about to upload a new one to YouTube. This one is an eclectic collection of scales that are named after Jazz, Blues, and Bebop.
It'll be there in about 10 minutes
New content on the YouTube channel
I've posted a new video to YouTube, using the new "scale detail" script. It's still not perfect... but it's getting better. I figured since the last time I posted a video there are quite a few more...
2019-06-24 02:18:32 +0000 UTC View PostLots of improvements to the website, and the Ridge Tones article
Hey patrons, busy busy times here. I've finished a significant overhaul of the website so it's got decent navigation now. I'll work on the index page later...
Also tonight I worked on the e...
More Upgrades
Here's the latest prototype for the new scale videos. The biggest change is I've upgraded all the slide templates to be in 1080p, so the quality is much, much better! There's a little more finesse ...
2019-06-01 03:18:50 +0000 UTC View PostA selection of Scales
This is actually a proof-of-concept made using some new techniques for creating video content. Using these tools I will produce replacements for all the scale videos currently on the channel, and t...
2019-05-10 16:40:16 +0000 UTC View PostNew Content on the way
Hey loyal patrons! It's been a busy season with a lot of distractions. Fret no longer, as I am working on a new set of videos, partly to replace/improve the ones that are already there, and introdu...
2019-05-10 14:46:04 +0000 UTC View Post