Saturnshine
Like all the tunings, the natural harmonics make for interesting chords, in this case "slash" chords. All of them probably need a short name. "Drop 31" would be a good one for this: Strings 3 and 1 are dropped a half-step.
Posts
7/19/2009
Instead of using a star rating system, using average threshold with plus or minus above/below horizon (A "candlestick" chart essentially)
Algorithm Jockeys (Short)
Tuning: E-G#-D-F#. Octaves are fingered as in standard tuning, which makes the tuning seem familiar, but the major third on the top remaps the fingerboard for interesting possibilities. (2/17/2024)
2/20/2002
A diagram from the paper diary. At the time I was interested in boundaries and invisible boundaries which can overlay other natural boundaries. You can build towns or cities across rivers and that will eventually create "the wall in the head": "You're from the other side of the river". Developments can be created ad hoc within certain areas where they might not belong as a kind of "occupation". I think that's what I was getting at.
11/6/2015
Partch , 29x20 inches, acrylic and pastel on rice paper (2015) Abstract homage to composer and theorist Harry Partch. It has a quasi-oriental quality, perhaps relating to the microtonal nature of some Japanese music.
11/9/2014
A photograph in commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, and a send-up of Taylor Swift's album "1989". (The date-created metadata of the digital file authenticates the title.) Screen shots which I had saved from a paper I had been reading about the advent of the Internet: