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  • This huge episode features three vastly different conversations, each with prominent members of a respective microtonal music discord.

    (1) Xenharmonic Alliance (ground, anomaly, xenoindex, Frédéric Gagné, HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA)

    Hyperspace Odyssey [21edo] - from Adxenture EP
    Serendipitous Arrival [26edo] - from Adxenture EP
    Liminal City Escalators [17edo and/or 18edo] - from Gone Too Deep EP
    Six Macrotonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media (8 NOTES)

    Outro/Transition: Into the Spoogalaxy [15edo, 17-tone tempered 2.3.7.29 ternary scale]
    (2) Xendergarten (ground, Userminusone, tristan bay)

    Orangerion [7edo] - Userminusone

    Pitchblende [27edo] - tristan bay
    Outro: Ashes of the Journey [37edo] - from Adxenture EP
    (3) Staffcirc (nikshalark, SoapDrip)
    Miasmania [0edo] - Promatsik

    Cute microtonal piano piece [17edo arr. Hesangasong]
    Shimmering Shapes [15edo] - doctorn0gloff
    Outro: no rest so sure ft. Nickshalark [13edo + 12edo???] - Soapdrip

    Links to discord servers, people, and music!

    https://discord.gg/vSEgr5AA

    https://discord.gg/qgQKCQAD

    https://www.youtube.com/@HEHEHEIAMASUPAHSTARSAGA

    https://www.youtube.com/@adamfreese

    https://www.youtube.com/@fredg999music

    https://www.youtube.com/@groundfault

    https://www.youtube.com/@Userminusone

    https://userminusone.bandcamp.com/

    https://tristanbay.com/

    https://www.youtube.com/@tristanbay

    https://www.instagram.com/whoistristanbay/

    https://x.com/pngsequence?lang=en

    https://www.instagram.com/gabiandthewhats/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBXpOPeQFYY&list=PLLZE7hMjEXRZ6U5VYkXguiYZk5aZZ7OA0

    https://www.youtube.com/@staffcirc

    https://soundcloud.com/nikshalark

    https://soapdrip.bandcamp.com/

    https://sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle.bandcamp.com/album/staffcirc-vol-7-terra-octava

    https://sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle.bandcamp.com/album/staffcirc-vol-7b-luna-octava

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  • Xenharmonic black metal project MelopƓia consists of Brian Leong, Jon Lervold, and Dave Tremblay. Their albums are inspired by J.R.R. Tolkein, and features his direct text both sung, and by mapping the letters of the text to different notes of 26-tone equal temperament. Their latest album utilizing this is “Valaquenta,” be sure to catch the latest track “Varda” which we discuss and play in the episode! Their earlier album, “AinulindalĂ«,” used the same method of starting the album and then uploading tracks one at a time as completed.


    Intro: MelopƓia - Varda [Valaquenta] 26-TET

    MelopƓia - Varda [Valaquenta] 26-TET

    MelopƓia - But an Instrument [AinulindalĂ«] 26-TET
    MelopƓia - But an Instrument [AinulindalĂ«] 26-TET

    MelopƓia - Varda [Valaquenta] 26-TET

    MelopƓia - Varda [Valaquenta] 26-TET

    MelopƓia - Varda [Valaquenta] 26-TET

    MelopƓia - IlĂșvatar’s Chord [AinulindalĂ«] 26-TET

    Outro: MelopƓia - Varda [Valaquenta] 26-TET

    MelopƓia’s Bandcamp:

    https://melopoeia.bandcamp.com/album/valaquenta

    https://melopoeia.bandcamp.com/album/ainulindal

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  • Chat about contemporary music, composition, and just intonation with us in this theoretically adventurous and wide ranging episode. Christopher Otto, composer and violinist, works with the JACK quartet, a group that has played the music of such individuals as John Zorn, Tristan Perich, Cenk ErgĂŒn, Tyshawn Sorey, Catherine Lamb, Georg Frederich Haas, Dan Trueman, and many, many, more.


    Intro: Christopher Otto (jack quartet) rag’sma

    Catherine Lamb - divisio spiralis (mvt. II)
    Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 (storm section low notes)

    Vicente Atria - Seasons Will Pass You By

    Christopher Otto (jack quartet) rag’sma

    Christopher Otto - 3x5x7 (loadbang)

    Christopher Otto - violin octet (d1)

    LaMonte Young - Trio for Strings (Part 4 out of 8)

    LaMonte Young - Trio for Strings (Part 4 out of 8) - demo of 17 “equalizing” 9/8
    Vicentino - Madonna il poco dolce (31edo) Stephen Weigel cover
    Christopher Otto - 3x4x5 (Weslos)

    Outro: Christopher Otto (jack quartet) rag’sma

    Rag’sma:

    https://greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/album/ragsma

    Christopher and JACK’s links:
    https://christopherotto.space/

    https://www.jackquartet.com/

    https://christopherotto.bandcamp.com/album/3x4x5

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  • Take a magical tour with us through some of Noah Dean Jordan’s microtonal instruments (including the requinto), including improvised performances! Be sure to check out the “Noah Dean Jordan” account on Bandcamp as well as the “Nueva Armonica” account!

    Intro: I Was Once a River (Rock Creek II)

    Outro: I Was Once a River (Te Quiero Verde)

    Check out Noah’s work on the requinto:

    https://noahdeanjordan.bandcamp.com/album/i-was-once-a-river

    https://nuevaarmonia.bandcamp.com/album/remembering-cloud-forms-microtonal-studies-for-13-limit-requinto-and-violin

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  • Today’s episode celebrates the culmination of a years-long project with Matthew Sheeran, widely celebrated composer, orchestrator, and arranger. The album we’ve been working on is called “Acoustic Microtonal,” and it is a recording of Easley Blackwood’s Twelve Microtonal Etudes using acoustic instruments, playing monophonic lines in isolation and then being re-tuned using Melodyne. Matthew commissioned the Budapest Scoring Orchestra to achieve this huge compositional feat. Check out our episode here for the largest dive into the notes and chords behind the music, and be sure to check out the full album in all its glory!

    The album:

    https://cedillerecords.lnk.to/3019

    Episode music:

    Intro: Blackwood – 23 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Blackwood – 16 notes (Stephen Weigel version)

    Blackwood – 16 notes (Hesangasang score)

    Blackwood – 16 notes (original)

    Blackwood – 16 notes (Stephen Weigel version)

    Blackwood – 17 notes (12-TET scordatura)

    Blackwood – 16 notes (Stephen Weigel version)

    Vicentino – Madonna il poco dolce (Jonathan Wilde version)

    Blackwood – 13 notes (original)

    Blackwood – 13 notes (12-TET version with diminished 3rd)

    Blackwood – 14 notes (original)

    Poulenc – Sextet for piano and winds

    Blackwood – 14 notes (original)

    Blackwood – 14 notes (12-TET version)

    Blackwood – 14 notes (original)

    Blackwood – 14 notes (Stephen Malinowski video clip)

    Blackwood – 14 notes (12-TET version)

    Blackwood – 15 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Blackwood – Suite for 15 tone guitar

    Stephen Weigel – open guitar chords in 15 video clip

    Blackwood – 15 notes (Stephen Weigel version)

    Stephen Weigel – What if we played EB’s 15 note etude in 12 video clip

    Blackwood – 16 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Blackwood – 16 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Blackwood – 17 notes (original)

    Blackwood – 18 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Blackwood – 18 notes (isolated flute in Matthew Sheeran version)

    Stravinsky – The Firebird Suite (Dance of King Kaschei)

    Blackwood – 18 notes (original)

    Blackwood – 19 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Blackwood – 19 notes (original)

    Blackwood – 20 notes (original)

    Henri Duparc – La vie antĂ©rieure

    Blackwood – 20 notes (original)

    Blackwood – 21 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Blackwood – 21 notes (12-TET version with Hendrix chord)

    Blackwood – 21 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Blackwood – 22 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Blackwood – 23 notes (original)

    Blackwood – 23 notes (Matthew Sheeran Kontakt arrangement – different orchestration)

    Blackwood – 23 notes (isolated harp in Matthew Sheeran version)

    Blackwood – 14 notes (12-TET version)

    Blackwood – 14 notes (Matthew Sheeran version – comparing 12 and 14)

    Blackwood – 23 notes (12-TET version)

    Blackwood – 23 notes (Matthew Sheeran version – comparing 12 and 23)

    Blackwood – 19 notes (Matthew Sheeran version cello ending)

    Blackwood – 24 notes (original)

    Blackwood – 24 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Stephen Weigel – 11 notes (original)

    Stephen Weigel – 11 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Stephen Weigel – 7 notes (Matthew Sheeran Kontakt arrangement)

    Blackwood – 15 notes (Stephen Weigel version)

    Stephen Weigel – keyboard fingering for 11-TET

    Stephen Weigel – 11 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Stephen Weigel – 7 notes (original)

    Stephen Weigel – 7 notes (Matthew Sheeran Kontakt arrangement)

    Blackwood – 18 notes (original)

    Stephen Weigel – Zones of Lasting Novelty (9-TET)

    Ben Johnston – String quartet No. 7 (guide tracks only)

    Blackwood – Gulliver’s Travels (23-TET)

    Matthew Sheeran – Lyres of Ur (7-TET)

    Outro: Blackwood – 17 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)

    Matthew’s stuff:

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7401095/

    https://www.youtube.com/@matthewsheeran1989/videos

    https://soundcloud.com/user698273169

    https://smatalent.com/matt-sheeran/

    Microtonal Etudes and Macrotonal Etudes:
    https://www.cedillerecords.org/albums/easley-blackwood-microtonal/

    https://stephenweigel.bandcamp.com/album/six-macrotonal-etudes-for-electronic-music-media

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  • In this episode, we discuss composition and performance with composer Saad Haddad. One prominent topic - the challenges involved working with orchestras and large ensembles playing microtonal music, and logistics of the industry. We also discuss ideas of east vs. west, style infiltration, using minimal sets of pitches, and maqam.

    Music:

    Vortex Temporum - GĂ©rard Grisey
    Vignettes - Saad Haddad
    Aysheen (demo) - Saad Haddad
    Outro: Aysheen (demo) - Saad Haddad

    Saad has his own podcast! (check it out):

    https://www.youtube.com/@saadhaddadshow

    Other links:
    https://www.saadnhaddad.com/

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPIEc4WKDbeemLQAqyhIUsA

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  • After this episode, be sure to check out the new Sevish album, “Big Sway!” Myself, Sevish, and benyamind have a classic microtonal chat about all things fun and intervallic, covering topics such as intuitive tunings, voice manipulation (vocoding, autotuning, etc.), perfectionism, going gridless, expectations, and communication and accessibility within the microtonal community. Several instruments get the spotlight, such as Sevish’s new microtonal keyboards, the Lumatone, melodica, and saxophone! We also stretch some tunings out for 22-edo Lambda, and frolic about in JI with harmonic series segments.

    Check out the new Sevish album:

    https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/big-sway

    Our stuff:

    https://www.youtube.com/@Sevish

    https://www.youtube.com/@benyamind

    https://www.youtube.com/@stephenweigel

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  • In this brief but informative chat with Brock Benzel, we explore uncharted territory, with a firm commitment to being true to the self, taking on challenges, putting the music first, and breaking rules just the right way. Enjoy the comfort of alien intervals that Brock brings using the Lumatone keyboard instrument (our big topic).

    Music

    [Intro] Paranola (31-TET) - performed by Brock Benzel
    Something found (31-TET) - facebook excerpt (Brock Benzel)

    stay hydrated (53-TET) - facebook excerpt (Brock Benzel)
    [Outro] happy pride from me n my pride keyboard to u (31-TET) - facebook excerpt (Brock Benzel)

    Brock’s stuff:

    https://www.youtube.com/@BrockBenzel

    https://www.instagram.com/mathbrock/?hl=en

    https://www.facebook.com/brock.benzel

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  • An episode about synth and drums among other tidbits. Topics include names, aliases, Sevish himself, reverberance, randomness, evil, disguising tuning, non-octave tuning, flaws, beauty, the joy of doing creative work yourself, AI, picking your genres, the microtonal community, and art. Be sure to check out Steve’s work as “Pentachrist” on Bandcamp, releasing new music periodically!

    Music

    The Road After [Four] - Pentachrist (15-TET)
    Machine Love [Look - A Living Retrospective] - mĂŒesk (9-TET)

    Emancipate Pitch! - Stephen Weigel (22-TET)
    I’ve Been Thinking [Look - A Living Retrospective] - mĂŒesk (11 out of 19 McLaren)
    [Outro] Entropy’s Song [Four] - Pentachrist (23-TET)

    Check out Steve’s music both old (MĂŒesk) and new (Pentachrist):

    https://pentachrist.bandcamp.com/

    https://muesk.bandcamp.com/album/look-a-living-retrospective

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  • In this episode, Denny Genovese recalls his history of creating and studying microtonal music, and his experience creating and performing in the impressive Exotic Music Ensemble. Join us as we become inspired through the brown note, Ivor Darreg’s secret math codes, the origins of Fractal Tune Smithy, the Moody Blues, FM synthesis, JI scales, and numerous other topics. Denny also explains his discography, and each individual instrument of the ensemble.

    Music

    [Intro] Five in Five [JI] - Denny Genovese
    [Outro] Reggae [JI] - Denny Genovese

    Some resources:

    http://www.afn.org/~sejic/denny.htm

    https://archive.org/stream/emi_archive/EMI_11_3_March1996_djvu.txt

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEpT_yWIsl8&t=1894s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_3h51nWQ5M&t=420s

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  • Check out Danny Playamaqui’s electronic music, a hugely expansive discography using a staggering variety of techniques. Danny conducts by-ear-tuning editing, strategic de-tuning, varispeed tricks, and poly-systemic techniques in addition to starting out with xenharmonic tunings as templates. Luckily, 4 bars a day keeps the doctor away (or is it an apple? Perhaps a lemon, or some paprika). We take inspiration and feedback from what is around us, trying to counterbalance that with boredom, motives, gimmicks, and alter egos. Animals and food, the ultimate kid-friendly songwriting subjects, here ironically take a bitingly sans-vocal formation. Tunings may or may not include Wendy Carlos scales, meantone tunings, 9-TET, 11-TET, 16-TET, 17-TET, 22-TET, and/or 31-TET.

    Music
    [Intro] Ichi-go ichi-e [New album!] - Danny Playamaqui
    Correcaminos [479^2] - Danny Playamaqui
    We Can’t Be Blamed [Harmony Hacker] - Sevish (22-TET)
    Lemongrass [VEG àŒŒàŒŒàŒŒàŒŒ ◕◕◕ àŒœàŒœàŒœàŒœ] - Danny Playamaqui
    Tigre [479^2] - Danny Playamaqui
    Nuggets [479] - Danny Playamaqui
    Truffles [479] - Danny Playamaqui
    Una Tortuga de Patas Amarillas [479^2] - Danny Playamaqui
    Bears [479^2] - Danny Playamaqui
    Octopus XX [New album!] - Danny Playamaqui
    Chocolate [479] - Danny Playamaqui
    Silver Bells [cover, xenharmonic chocolate] - arr. Stephen Weigel (21-TET)
    ♄ ◕ àŒœă€ ♄ [VEG àŒŒàŒŒàŒŒàŒŒ ◕◕◕ àŒœàŒœàŒœàŒœ] - Danny Playamaqui (31-TET?)
    Bitter Melon [VEG àŒŒàŒŒàŒŒàŒŒ ◕◕◕ àŒœàŒœàŒœàŒœ] - Danny Playamaqui
    Turmeric [VA] - Danny Playamaqui
    Little Fox [479] - Danny Playamaqui
    [Outro] Lynx [New album!] - Danny Playamaqui

    Danny’s music:
    https://playamaqui.bandcamp.com/album/479-2
    https://soundcloud.com/dannyplayamaqui
    https://www.youtube.com/@playamaqui/featured

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  • Come join us for a pleasant studio chat with Bryan Deister, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and jazz pianist extraordinaire. Recently he has been exploring microtonal covers on the Lumatone, with massive success on TikTok. He has also written many albums featuring microtonal music in various tuning systems, generally equal divisions, the most recent fully microtonal one being “In Your Hands.” Our conversation covers many topics relating to context switching, genre, surveys, paucitonality, and unusual instruments. Technical points include discussion of Lumatone layouts and pseudo-octave tropes, the too-perfect ring of JI soiling holy counterpoint, adolescent hatred of microtonality, translating between different tunings (transfer), and Scriabin.

    Music

    [Intro] The Call [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister

    Apprehension [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister
    Go Away [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister
    Gasoline [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister (5-ED(5/4))
    Uneven Halves [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister
    Lavender Town (Pokemon) - Bryan Deister Lumatone cover (13-TET)

    32edo - Bryan Deister

    33edo - Bryan Deister

    34edo - Bryan Deister

    35edo - Bryan Deister

    36edo - Bryan Deister

    37edo - Bryan Deister

    38edo - Bryan Deister

    39edo - Bryan Deister

    40edo - Bryan Deister

    41edo - Bryan Deister

    42edo - Bryan Deister

    Microtonal improvisation in 43edo - Bryan Deister
    Zinnia Riplet - Stephen Weigel (32-TET)

    Minimal Progress - John Moriarty (~32-TET)

    In the Dark [The Dying Savior] - Bryan Deister (24-TET, 23-TET, 22-TET, 21-TET, 20-TET, 19-TET, 18-TET)
    In Your Hands [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister (8-TET, 9-TET, 10-TET, 11-TET, 24-TET)
    Come [Spines of the Heart] - Bryan Deister (19-TET)

    Sunrise - HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA (19-TET)
    Fair [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister

    Liquid Smooth (Mitski) - Bryan Deister Lumatone cover (17-TET)
    True Love Waits (Radiohead) - collab Stephen, Levi McClain, Braelen Addison (31-TET)

    Shadow Play [Supernova] - Bryan Deister
    [Outro] The Window [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister

    Check out Bryan’s incredible music on Bandcamp!

    https://linktr.ee/bryandeister

    https://bryandeister.bandcamp.com/album/in-your-hands

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  • Chris Bandy, a cappella maestro and creative polymath, joins us to discuss the microtonality of his spectacular arrangements on YouTube. He works in Logic Pro using FlexPitch. Most of his microtonal strategies involve tuning standard adjustments and drifts, or moving microtonal distances. His most xenharmonic sounding arrangement is likely “Where is Love,” and his latest video, “Silent Night,” gets really in-depth and has pioneered several extremities of his style (vocal agility, subtle and long tuning drift, range, complex slide editing, etc). Check out his videos on YouTube, and his Patreon!

    Music

    Silent Night - arr. Chris Bandy [tuning standard adjustment]

    Silent Night - arr. Chris Bandy [tuning standard adjustment]

    America the Beautiful - arr. Chris Bandy [tuning standard adjustment]

    Where is Love - arr. Chris Bandy [144-TET] - m. 92

    Where is Love - arr. Chris Bandy [144-TET] - mm. 3-4

    Where is Love - arr. Chris Bandy [144-TET] - mm. 99-100

    Where is Love - arr. Chris Bandy [144-TET] - mm. 73-75

    Where is Love - arr. Chris Bandy [144-TET] - mm. 83-84

    Where is Love - arr. Chris Bandy [144-TET] - m. 89 (phase 1)

    Where is Love - arr. Chris Bandy [144-TET] - mm. 90-91 (phase 2)

    Where is Love - arr. Chris Bandy [144-TET] - mm. 91-92 (phase 3)

    [Outro] Silent Night - arr. Chris Bandy [tuning standard adjustment]

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  • Dave Keenan and Douglas Blumeyer have written an in-depth, specific guide about the mathematical principles of regular temperament theory that are groundbreaking in their consistency and explanatory power. We have them on to discuss how the exchanges evolved, de-mystify some theory concepts, and get spicy with terminology.

    Music

    [Intro] Dave Keenan - Tumbling Dekany four six five seven nine [JI]

    [Outro] Douglas Blumeyer - Blumeyer Comma JI Unpump [JI]

    D&D’s guide:

    https://en.xen.wiki/w/Dave_Keenan_%26_Douglas_Blumeyer%27s_guide_to_RTT

    Other resources:

    https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/Erlich-MiddlePath.pdf

    http://tonalsoft.com/enc/e/equal-temperament.aspx

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCRb6r5shD8

    https://sagittal.org/

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  • Experimental bagpipe and bass legend Mat Muntz brings his Croatian folk music expertise to the table
 a topic most would say he has matsered in depth. Check out his latest album “Phantom Island” on Bandcamp, which freely combines folk music and jazz idioms into a grand polysystemic masterpiece. A lot of our conversation revolves around the intriguing differences between instruments such as bagpipes and double reeds, folk music/other influences, and tuning systems existing together in the same piece. The process of solving microtonal “issues” in an ensemble setting is one we describe as constantly bringing weird findings that cause learning, and joy. Also, keep your ears ready for connections between geography and tuning, and the latest conspiracy about Tartini!

    Music
    [Intro] Mat Muntz - Phantom Islands (track 3)
    Vex Collection - Fugue
    Beethoven - Ode to Joy (in Istrian scale)
    Mat Muntz - Cembalo Brutto (track 5)
    Mat Muntz - Phantom Islands (track 1)
    Mat Muntz - Cembalo Brutto (track 3)
    Agustín Castilla Ávila - Gemiden
    Stephen Weigel - Tenacious Chorale
    Mat Muntz - Phantom Islands (track 1)
    Mat Muntz - Phantom Islands (track 4)
    Mat Muntz - Phantom Islands (track 3)
    Mat Muntz - Phantom Islands (track 4)
    Traditional - clip of Croatian women singing
    [Outro] Mat Muntz - Phantom Islands (track 3)

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    https://matmuntz.bandcamp.com/album/phantom-islands
    https://thevexcollection.bandcamp.com/album/the-vex-collection

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  • Check out this conversation with Aaron Myers-Brooks, Pittsburgh prog guitarist/composer extraordinaire. His latest album, “Oblique,” is a microtonal odyssey exploring various quirky polyrhythms, applications of 17-tone equal temperament, electronic sounds, and distortion flavors. We get an inside exclusive look at the scores to “Energy Shapes”, figure out why one might use up and down arrows instead of Gould accidentals, and talk about “drawing” microtones in the highC program.

    Music
    [Intro] Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (V - Emerge)
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Eight HighC Miniatures (VII - Chitter)
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Sonata for 17-tone Guitar (I - Wistful and Halting)
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Prelude and Entity
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - The 11th and 6th Caves
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (II - Oblique)
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Sonata for 17-tone Guitar (I - Wistful and Halting)
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Sonata for 17-tone Guitar (II - Angular and Aggressive)
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Chasm [from album “Energetic Bursts”]
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (I - Wisp)
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (II - Oblique)
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (III - Chop)
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Triads and Arpeggios
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (IV - De-Sync)
    Aaron Myers-Brooks - Energy Shapes (V - Emerge)
    [Outro] Aaron Myers-Brooks - Sonata for 17-tone Guitar (III - Somber and Deliberate)

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    https://aaronmyersbrooks.bandcamp.com/album/oblique
    https://www.youtube.com/@aaronmeterchanges

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  • “One-Footed” is a piece written by Taylor Brook named after Harry Partch’s “The One-Footed Bride'' Just-Intonation diagram. We discuss the aforementioned piece with Taylor Brook and John Schneider, diving into the ins and outs of writing idiomatically for the Partch ensemble, using Partch as inspiration, notation, and extended techniques on these instruments. The Del Sol quartet played the string parts! Come join us in exploring this vast sound world inside this justly tuned alternative orchestra!

    Music

    [Intro] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (III - Approach)

    Harry Partch - Delusion of the Fury (I - Exordium)

    [7/5 to 11/8] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (VII - Power)

    [naming foot parts] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (V - Power)

    Taylor Brook - One-Footed (II - Suspense)

    Taylor Brook - One-Footed (VI - Emotion)

    Taylor Brook - One-Footed (III - Approach)

    [opening 9/8 tonality] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (I - Approach)

    [large 5/4 tonality section] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (III - Approach)

    Ben Johnston - String Quartet n. 10

    Ben Johnston - String Quartet n. 4

    [bowl matching section] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (VII - Power)

    [opening 9/8 tonality] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (I - Approach)

    [bass line] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (I - Approach)

    [bowl matching section] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (VII - Power)

    [singing canon section] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (VII - Power)

    [low drone section] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (VII - Power)

    [7/5 to 11/8] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (VII - Power)

    Ben Johnston - String Quartet n. 7

    Bob Dylan - Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

    [I V IV progression on 1/1] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (VII - Power)

    [large 5/4 tonality section] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (III - Approach)

    [bass line John sings] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (I - Approach)

    [bass line] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (I - Approach)

    [I V IV progression on 9/8] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (I - Approach)

    [Outro] Taylor Brook - One-Footed (VII - Power)

    The piece, written by Taylor Brook:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgR2wONYH9c

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SEZRr3RUOzLun7wz1oS8SDw8UhKKVDJL/view?usp=sharing

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  • Check out acreil’s music! Algorithmic albums appended with “a.” Keeper of obscure words in lists. Hardware enthusiast and certified synth geek. We have a delightful episode discussing how acreil works in Pure Data among other curiosities, such as how one navigates form to prevent boredom. Not only do we mess it up (or whatever), but we solve the paradox of influence and extremity, by making one chord at a time in chord networks.

    Music
    acropora antozone [acheiropoietic ansätze] - acreil
    đŸŽ§đŸ‘‚đŸ”œđŸ–€đŸ’—đŸ“›đŸŽČđŸŽ°đŸŽźđŸ„‡đŸšŽđŸŒ«đŸ‘‚đŸ‘‚đŸ’˜ (track 8) - Stephen Weigel
    newdrum7 [Luna Octava] - acreil
    acridine abeyance [aleatoric aubades] - acreil
    autochthonous acidification [aleatoric aubades] - acreil
    Dance - Bernard Parmegiani
    Valley Flow - Denis Smalley
    Continuous microtonal glissando for 8 oscillators - acreil

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  • Algorithmic August kicks off with Skueue, builder of the unnamed machine in Pure Data. This is an abstract, idea-filled episode packed to the brim with insights about the process. Our points of focus include a discussion of how writing affects software, uncommon disagreement about common practice, VST’s in PD, programming cadences, rootful resolutions, clowntone heptatonica, and SAMPLING. Eventually, we decide that algorithmic music written to sound as its author intended is a success.

    Music

    Bisphen [Anagnorisis] - Skueue
    Kaneda [from Akira] - Geinoh Yamashirogumi
    Bedroom micro - Aphex Twin
    Equivalence [Anagnorisis] - Skueue
    Giant Steps - John Coltrane
    Mantle [Andesite] - Skueue
    Tx [Andesite] - Skueue
    Benthi [Anagnorisis] - Skueue

    Check out Skueue’s music and YouTube:

    https://bandcamp.com/skueue

    https://music.apple.com/us/artist/skueue/1439919264

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zo_iFMyydE

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  • Nicholas Denton Protsack’s music abounds with spectral delights of various kinds. Our talk today has a particular focus on notation, delving into the strategy behind its presentation. As we study tuning more and more, becoming less rigid with its implementation, it becomes helpful to focus on not just approximating some tunings with others, but also to focus on the broader conceptual ideas behind the tuning labels. In particular, polysystemic tunings tend to hint at the methodology of their compositions. “Firebird” (Sounds Like Things) blends aspects of biological study and music, explores the rich timbre of found objects, relies on reference points, and uses freedom to generate complex music.

    Music

    Into this Fracturing Land [31-EDO] - Nicholas Protsack
    Runaway (from Firebird) - Sounds Like Things
    đŸŽ§đŸ‘‚đŸ”œđŸ–€đŸ’—đŸ“›đŸŽČđŸŽ°đŸŽźđŸ„‡đŸšŽđŸŒ«đŸ‘‚đŸ‘‚đŸ’˜ (track 3) - Stephen Weigel

    Runaway (from Firebird) - Sounds Like Things

    Into the Refuge of a Cave (Daniel Gelman) - Nicholas Protsack

    Into the Refuge of a Cave (Darren Williams) - Nicholas Protsack

    Into the Refuge of a Cave (Andrew Friedman) - Nicholas Protsack
    Into this Fracturing Land [31-EDO] - Nicholas Protsack

    Check out Nicholas’s music:

    https://soundslikethings.bandcamp.com/album/firebird

    https://nicholasdentonprotsack.bandcamp.com/track/into-this-fracturing-land

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