Equal Tuning Lab
“Equal Tuning Lab” is a Max/MSP tool that I am developing to help visualize, play and notate Equal Tunings (aka Equal Temperaments, Equal-step Tunings, and Rank 1 Regular Temperaments) by comparing them against other Equal Tunings through a circular “clock like” visual representation. For example, it might be particularly useful if one wishes to compare the intervals of Equal Tunings not based on subdivisions of 12EDO (such as 5, 7, 11, 31 and 53EDO, as opposed to 12, 24, 48 or 72EDO) with their closest counterparts in these same tunings.
This tool can also be used to compare the intervals of these tunings against a variety of Just Intonation intervals (based on Marc Sabat's Tuneable Intervals) and export keyboard mappings of Equal Tunings into bitKlavier, alongside other features.
Regarding Marc Sabat's Tuneable Intervals, Equal Tuning Lab also includes an in-development speculative personal classification of these Tuneable Intervals into a ranking system from 1 to 9. This ranking is based on how problematic these intervals might be as possible containers for approximating intervals of Equal Tunings into them. More information about this speculative work will eventually be published on this website.
"Equal Tuning Lab" is being developed within the context of my doctoral research in composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, titled "(Un)Equal Tunings: Exploring multiple levels of resolution between equal tunings and intonational practices in composition". It will be published alongside the thesis at the end of this doctoral project.
