Now that we’re in our own thread (yay!), maybe I’ll throw in a music link that plays with tuning in a fun way:
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its worth watching that video if you havent…yeah its “good enough” for most things but that video shows how overly and unnecessarily complicated and other divisions and multiplication of the 12-TET - like 7-TET or 19-TET
Its worth 5 mins of your time
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You were right, it was cute, although as with most “let’s talk about the MATH” videos, its philosophical underpinnings seemed … lacking. After all, no one would argue that 12TET is the ‘default system’ in Western music because it is an optimal tuning for expressing 5ths, much less the intervals found in the major scale, so it’s not clear to me that 7-TET or 19-TET would be “better”.
One exciting (or not) thing about being a musician in the 21st century is that in fact, if one decides, it’s dramatically cheaper than in previous centuries to create strange, “bespoke” pitch systems for one or a few pieces, since harmony need not play the same organizational role it has in music of the past.
I’ve never really got into alternative tunings, but it’s something I always eye up in the Kaivo plugin, So many options! Three different Xenakis options! 
Madrona Labs plug-ins, timeless, the only ones I come back to again and again. Many thanks to @randy.
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Giacinto Scelsi: Natura Renovatur (1967)
http://ubu.com/film/gaudi_doc.html
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Music by Toru Takemitsu
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me too - well, i dont own Kaivo, gotta try it. I just went into Aalto for some 19 TET and it was glorious! Opened up so many possibilities so thank you to this thread!!!
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