{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 63: Ill-Tempered Clavier [PATREON PREVIEW]","description":"Alec and Nick complete a series of discussions on foundational music discourses \u2014 classical music, sound systems, and in this episode: musical temperment. Defining temperement as the organization of the acoustic harmonic series, applied in performance, engineering and musical epistemology, the conversation expands on historical nuances in the aesthetic, technological and cultural implications of this evolving theoretical construction over time. Anchored with a comparison of J.S. Bach\u2019s equal tempered proof-of-concept \u2014 \u201cWell-Tempered Clavier\u201d (1722) \u2014 and LaMonte Young\u2019s 1964 rebuttal in just intonation, \u201cThe Well-Tuned Piano\u201d (1964), the discussion extends the broad history of temperement into the realm contemporary music and inquires into the affect of digital sound production on this discourse. Topics include: Pythagoras, autotune, Vincenzo Galelei, Harry Partch, John Cage\u2019s works for prepared piano, the evolution of the western orchestra, Indian classical music, Noise, and more. ","author_name":"Flavortone","author_url":"http:\/\/flavortone.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/38482560\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ff0000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/193886545"}