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Since our hearing system is accustomed to the equal temperament system, best applied to modern western musical instruments, we perceive the other tuning systems as unfamiliar, without being able to describe exactly how and what sounds weird and seems dissonant.
This paper describes the construction of new mathemusical models and visualization concepts: Two dimensional static and dynamic models, 3D and 4D animated objects.
These tools are designed to graphically compare temperaments and generate visualizations that reinforce/augment the auditory impression. We discuss limits and applications for our models and their different applications.
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Baroin, G., Calvet, A. (2019). Visualizing Temperaments: Squaring the Circle?. In: Montiel, M., Gomez-Martin, F., Agustín-Aquino, O.A. (eds) Mathematics and Computation in Music. MCM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11502. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21392-3_27
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