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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–c.1575) who, inspired by the writings of the ancient Greeks, wrote a treatise proposing a 31-tone division of the octave. […] This "what if" scenario captured the imagination of Jon Wild, associate professor of theory and composition at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University'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.  Read about and listen to what things might have sounded like in the sidebar link.
CBC