William Sethares

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Full Name	William Sethares
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Apr 19, 1955(1955-04-19)
Age	69
Birthplace	Massachusetts
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aries

William Sethares Biography

William Sethares is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on April 19, 1955 in Massachusetts, United States. In the early musical tradition the concept of musical consonance was believed to have developed in a quasi-mystical way from ratios of small numbers. (For an example Pythagoras was a researcher who made observations in relation to this and in the old Chinese Guqin has an dotted scale that represents that harmonic series.) The cause of these ratios, which is the vibration pattern known as the harmonic sequence was discovered through Joseph Sauveur the early 18th century, and further in the work of Helmholtz in the 1850s.

In his book from 1998 Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale, Sethares developed the concepts further, using them to reveal the intricate connection between the tunings and timbres used in Indonesian as well as Thai traditional music as well as to investigate other new combination of similar tunings and the timbres. Microtonal music was orally dissonant (due due to playing with harmonic timbres with which it wasn’t “related”), or limited to a narrow range of harmonically related tunes (to keep the consonance of sensory perception) Sethares’s mathematical and musical research revealed how musicians could experiment with microtonality, without losing consonance with the senses.

By early 2006, the Isomorphic Conspiracy had discovered that such keyboards also had the same fingering in every tuning, too—or, at least, every tuning of what the Conspiracy came to call the syntonic temperament. This consistency of fingering across tunings, which they called tuning invariance, enables a performer, using an isomorphic keyboard and compatible synthesizer (or software synthesizer), to play a given tonal piece in any of a wide range of tunings. The Conspiracy turned its attention to identifying the means by which different isomorphic keyboards could be compared, and identified the Wicki/Hayden keyboard as being optimal for the syntonic temperament’s wide tuning range.

To put these ideas into practice, Sethares (with collaborators and students) developed a freely available software-based synthesizer, the TransFormSynth, which enables a performer to bend tunings polyphonically during performance. In April 2008, Sethares used the TransFormSynth to compose and record the first musical piece that used dynamic tonality, which he called “C to Shining C” (although the piece, as recorded, is not actually in any musical key). A single chord is played throughout the piece, yet it gains a feeling of tension and release through its tuning progression from 19-tone equal temperament tuning to 5-tone equal temperament tuning and back, complemented by a slower timbre progression from a fully harmonic timbre to a fully tuning-aligned timbre.

In the late 1990s, Sethares began exploring Plomp and Levelt’s generalization musically and mathematically. The 1993 paper he wrote on the relationship between scale and timbre defined the connections between scale’s note and the timbre’s specifics which control consonance of the senses. A less accessible version was published within Experimental Musical Instruments as “Relating Tuning and Timbre” The documents were followed up by two other CDs: Xenotonality as well as Exomusicology (some songs on which you can download for free here) that focused on ways to use these concepts to music composition.

William Sethares Net Worth

William Sethares is one of the richest Engineer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Sethares 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

William A. Sethares (born April 19th 1955) is an American music theorist who is also a an electrical engineer professor in the University of Wisconsin. In the field of music, he helped develop the theories behind Dynamic Tonality and also provided an explanation of consonance.

The year 1965 was the time Plomp as well as Levelt proved that this relation could be extended to include other harmonics however, they didn’t go into detail in great detail.

In 2003, Sethares began an informal collaboration with Andrew Milne and Jim Plamondon, whimsically called the Isomorphic Conspiracy. Its aim was to explore the musical relationships exposed by isomorphic keyboards, which are an unusual design of two-dimensional keyboards that have the intriguing characteristic of having transpositional invariance—that is, “the same fingering in every key.”

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