Paul Erlich

Musical Artist

1972 –

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Who is Paul Erlich?

Paul Erlich is a guitarist and music theorist living near Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for his seminal role in developing the theory of regular temperaments, including being the first to discover pajara temperament and its decatonic scales in 22-ET. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Yale University.

His invention of harmonic entropy has received significant attention from music theorists such as William Sethares. It is intended to model one of the components of dissonance as a measure of the uncertainty of the virtual pitch evoked by a set of two or more pitches. This measures how easy or difficult it is to fit the pitches into a single harmonic series. For example most listeners rank a 4:5:6:7 chord as far more consonant than 1/7:1/6:1/5:1/4. Both have exactly the same set of intervals between the notes but the first one is easy to fit into a single harmonic series.

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Born
1972
Nationality
  • United States of America

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on July 23, 2013

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