Exposition

Diamond Marimba as a Creative Tool (last edited: 2023)

Arend Jan Hendrik Strootman
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About this exposition

Since a couple of years I teach music theory lessons for the sonologists at the Conservatoire in The Hague. Amongst others I'm explaining overtones and their use in Just Intonation in these lessons. A topic that is, albeit from a different perspective, also part of the second year curriculum for the composition department. When the ratios, lattices, otonalities/ utonalities, harmonics/subharmonics, calculations in cents and hertz go into depth and become more complex, the connection with the sounding result can get lost easily. As part of the lectorate in 2022/2023 I wanted to investigate in how far the diamond marimba can be a valuable asset in addressing the potential of Just Intonation via a physical manifestation. Due to its construction the instrument reflects limits and lattices and much that needs to be known for an understanding of ratios - can this instrument be(come) a tool to be able to train the sonic imagination in Just Intonation and microtonality? In this exposition the preparations, building, try-outs, implementation in the classes and reflection can be found.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsKonCon Lectorate, harmonics, just intonation, tuning, instrument design, Harry Partch
date03/01/2023
last modified12/09/2023
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightAart Strootman
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1911414/1911415
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1911744 Marimba Aart Strootman Public domain
1911748 Tubes Aart Strootman Public domain
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1915825 Lectorate presentation 2022:2023 pdf Aart Strootman Public domain
1915835 Onderzoek KonCon Aart Strootman Public domain
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1918778 TEXT Lectorate Den Haag reflection Aart Strootman All rights reserved
1918781 Trajectories for Diamond Marimba Aart Strootman / Deuss Den Haag All rights reserved
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