{"id":20067,"date":"2018-06-29T20:47:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T01:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20067"},"modified":"2018-06-29T20:47:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T01:47:27","slug":"on-the-tenor-sax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20067","title":{"rendered":"On the tenor sax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the tenor sax there are exactly 32 steps &#8212; if you go by semitones &#8212; between the lowest playable note, the A\u266d<sub>2<\/sub>, to the highest, the  E<sub>5<\/sub>.  If you count the notes between these two extremes (which I have), you will find that there are exactly 32 steps in the chromatic progression from the former to the latter.<\/p>\n<p>As a computer scientist trained in the arcane arts of computer graphics, I am fascinated by this fact.  32 is a perfect power of 2.  In fact, it is two raised to the fifth power.<\/p>\n<p>I feel a deep yearning to create a virtual reality musical piece which expands upon this mathematical tidbit.  I do not know whether this desire stems from my love of computer graphics, or my love for my idealized view of the tenor sax.<\/p>\n<p>It might very well be both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the tenor sax there are exactly 32 steps &#8212; if you go by semitones &#8212; between the lowest playable note, the A\u266d2, to the highest, the E5. If you count the notes between these two extremes (which I have), you will find that there are exactly 32 steps in the chromatic progression from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20067\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the tenor sax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20068,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20067\/revisions\/20068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}