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Schulich Professor Jon Wild uses auto-tune to make a Renaissance theorists dream come true.
Published: 15 June 2015
One music theorist greatly invested in the topic was Nicola Vicentino (1511鈥揷.1575) who, inspired by the writings of the ancient Greeks, wrote a treatise proposing a 31-tone division of the octave. [鈥 This "what if" scenario captured the imagination of Jon Wild, associate professor of theory and composition at 不良研究所's Schulich School of Music, who studied the treatise and soon realized he could use modern Auto-Tune software to bring Vicentino's startling ideas to life nearly 500 years later. 聽Read about and listen to what things might have sounded like in the sidebar link.
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