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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 Ergün, Tyshawn Sorey, Catherine Lamb, Georg Frederich Haas, Dan Trueman, and many, many, more.
Intro: Christopher Otto (jack quartet) rag’smaCatherine 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 antérieure
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 - Gérard Grisey
Vignettes - Saad Haddad
Aysheen (demo) - Saad Haddad
Outro: Aysheen (demo) - Saad HaddadSaad 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] - müesk (9-TET)Emancipate Pitch! - Stephen Weigel (22-TET)
I’ve Been Thinking [Look - A Living Retrospective] - müesk (11 out of 19 McLaren)
[Outro] Entropy’s Song [Four] - Pentachrist (23-TET)Check out Steve’s music both old (Müesk) 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 GenoveseSome 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 ༼༼༼༼ ◕◕◕ ༽༽༽༽] - 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)
♥ ◕ ༽つ ♥ [VEG ༼༼༼༼ ◕◕◕ ༽༽༽༽] - Danny Playamaqui (31-TET?)
Bitter Melon [VEG ༼༼༼༼ ◕◕◕ ༽༽༽༽] - Danny Playamaqui
Turmeric [VA] - Danny Playamaqui
Little Fox [479] - Danny Playamaqui
[Outro] Lynx [New album!] - Danny PlayamaquiDanny’s music:
https://playamaqui.bandcamp.com/album/479-2
https://soundcloud.com/dannyplayamaqui
https://www.youtube.com/@playamaqui/featuredSupport us on Patreon! (If we get 60 patrons, episodes will be released regularly instead of sporadically)
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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 DeisterLiquid 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 DeisterCheck out Bryan’s incredible music on Bandcamp!
https://linktr.ee/bryandeister
https://bryandeister.bandcamp.com/album/in-your-hands
https://www.youtube.com/@BryanDeister
https://www.tiktok.com/@bryandeister
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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]
Chris’s stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisBandyJazz
https://www.patreon.com/chrisbandy
https://chrisbandyjazz.wixsite.com/mysite
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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)
Mat Muntz’s music on Bandcamp:
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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)
Aaron Myers-Brooks’ music (on all streaming sites):
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
🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘 (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 - acreilCheck out acreil’s music, YouTube, blog:
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https://www.youtube.com/user/acreil
https://acreil.wordpress.com/
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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
🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘 (track 3) - Stephen WeigelRunaway (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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How on earth does one create a 1200-tone tone row? Or even a 372-tone row in Sibelius? Find out in this wacky episode featuring Aaron Breeze, the swingin’ licc master himself! The broader topics in this thrilling, conversational episode include silliness and perceived complexity, the connection between playing and speaking, red dress methodology, repetition and intent, presentation in music, high-effort memes, mixing contexts and genres, and the social state of online spaces. We’re psyched that global icon Sarah Brand brought microtonality back
Music
Intro - Groovy Serialism in 372-TET (Aaron Breeze)
Captain Holt screaming (arr. Aaron Breeze)
Troy and Abed off to Dreamland (arr. Aaron Breeze)
Red Dress (Sarah Brand) - reharmonized by Aaron Breeze
Red Dress (Sarah Brand) - reharmonized by Stephen Weigel
CPAC Anthem Video A CAPPELLA HARMONY! (QW4RTZ)
this is the greatest piano concerto of all time (Aaron Breeze)
3 Slapstick Piano Etudes (Aaron Breeze)
Red Dress (Sarah Brand) - reharmonized by FAST-FAST music
Friday Night (Tim Robinson) - from I Think You Should Leave
Beethoven Symphony No. 5 but it’s in 5/8 and 5-EDO (arr. Aaron Breeze)
Outro - Red Dress (Sarah Brand) - reharmonized by Aaron Breeze
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In this colorful, rich episode, we take a look into the importance of visual and narrative elements in accompanying microtonal music and its ideas. Stephen James Taylor does this not only through writing music in film, but also through his own visual content, such as in “Surfing the Sonic Sky,” an important documentary about Erv Wilson. Among the topics discussed here are: how to approach microtonality in film composition (mixing that with 12-TET), dosage control, the emotions one can only get from microtonal music, and hearing different instruments played with cool effects! We’ll also spill the beans on how to get tons of Chinese gongs for a cheap price…
Doing something new: for each Now&Xen episode made (often), I’m trying to create a cover or transcription. For this episode, I’m planning to transcribe Stephen James Taylor’s “Quantum 7” performance from YouTube (though I haven’t been able to complete this yet). Be sure to follow the Stephen Weigel YouTube channel if you don’t want to miss it!Music
Ancient Seers (Surfing the Sonic Sky) - Stephen James Taylor
Sivi - ILEVENSMusic for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste - Béla Bartók
Sonic Sorcerer (Surfing the Sonic Sky) - Stephen James Taylor
Music from “The Giving” [58-tone Hebdomekontany vs. 12-equal] - Stephen James Taylor
MOS Vamp (Surfing the Sonic Sky) - Stephen James Taylor
Music from “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” [7-limit] - Stephen James Taylor
Eddie Van Halen clip (Back to the Future)
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms - Thomas Moore (Bugs bunny clip)
Quantum 7 (Transcendent Tonality) - Stephen James TaylorRemorphed Keyboard (Surfing the Sonic Sky) - Stephen James Taylor
Three-Part Invention - Stephen James Taylor
Dizzy Spell - Stephen James Taylor
Trouvaille - Stephen James Taylor
The Sugmad is Dreaming - Stephen James Taylor
Expressions - Stephen James Taylor
The Coprime Colors [7-limit JI] - Stephen James Taylor
Mood of Neptune [Fibonacci-based JI] - Stephen James Taylor
Rockin’ da Beat [17-tone MOS scale] - Stephen James Taylor
Topsy Turvy Town theme [from Mickey Mouse] - Stephen James Taylor
Rafiki’s Theme [from Timon & Pumbaa] - Stephen James Taylor
Black Panther [31-TET establishing shot] - Stephen James Taylor
Black Panther [53-TET dream sequence] - Stephen James Taylor
Sonic Sky Credits/31 for Spud (Surfing the Sonic Sky) - Stephen James Taylor
Check out Stephen James Taylor’s music:
https://www.stephenjamestaylor.com/sjt/home_page.html
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0853200/
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/stephen-james-taylor/6860557
https://www.youtube.com/user/SurfingTheSonicSky
https://vimeo.com/sonicsky
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Transcription of “Quantum 7” coming soon! - Show more
