Comments on: The Mijor Triad

By: Arthur

Arthur — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:49:55 +0000

Finally, someone who understands my genius. Vindication at last.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:35:23 +0000

I’d say it sounds neither, but more major than minor. This is the future of music.

By: soess

soess — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:05:11 +0000

lol!! I just sang those 7 notes and stopped. It was utterly terrifying.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 05:20:59 +0000

It gave me vertigo. It’s my kryptonite. Just like one of my friends’ kryptonite was playing the first 7 notes of a major scale and stopping: C D E F G A B .. “AAGGHHH!”

By: Arthur

Arthur — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:06:35 +0000

Hmm. I think discovered might be more apt. Watch me play piano sometime and you will find that, more often than not, if I’m soloing in my right hand, my left hand is playing…um…Lin major. (except in some other key, so like Din major of Bbin major, or something?) Very common jazz piano voicing. You’re Bill Evans, and you didn’t even know it.

By the way, no one has paid any attention to the actual question here. Does the mijor triad sound major or minor? Or neither?

By: Lin-Man

Lin-Man — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 06:02:37 +0000

IT’s okay. But it’s not as cool as the chord I could have sworn I invented when I was 10. That chord goes D G#, C#. You may call it Lin Major.

You’re welcome!

Siempre,

Lin-Manuel

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:20:00 +0000

So I’ve been futzing with it, and it looks like the perception is different depending on the octave the notes are in! This one, for example, sounds decidedly major to me. (This one is a little less jarring, but still not pretty. I’ve got a ways to go….)

Bizarre.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:13:36 +0000

YOU FOOLS! YOUR PUNY SNIFFLING WILL NOT BE TOLERATED! THE FUTURE MARCHES ON!

By which I mean, two things:

1. I actually love the sound of the dialtone. If I’m high or delirious or otherwise out of it, I can sit with the phone on my ear humming harmony for fucking ever. (well, not true because those bastards cut you off and that really atrocious sound starts…)

2. You’re right though. It sounds pretty awful, even without the quartertone. As I learn more about Csound, I will pretty it up. Today I’m learning how to do panning and envelopes. Should help a little…

By: echillri

echillri — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:59:59 +0000

I hates the devilnoise! It burnses!!

For real, though, I think any sustained tone with that timbre and volume is going to botherate. It’s probably the theory behind the dial tone; they make it irritating so you either hang up or start dialing.

It also reminds of the beginning of “Sleeping In” by The Postal Service. But less pretty.

By: Etan

Etan — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:30:53 +0000

A) I can easily picture a wild haired teenage Arthur sitting in his room tuning a guitar for hours. It is scary how easily I can picture this.

B) Try singing it.

C) Oww! My Ears!