microtonal tunes

microtonal as in non-equal temperament

When I was in college, I was required to write a microtonal dance song for a class. This is what happened.

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^ i'm being off-topic but i was pleasantly surprised to hear messiaen's o sacrum convivium which i love on track 6 *closes parenthesis*

Fun topic.

^Great track Braintree!

12 tone just intonation is arguably the best sounding configuration but not really representative of what's possible with microtonality. What I've found in my exploration of more exotic scales is that there are plenty of interesting recordings and tunings but rarely beautiful.

This guy is an exception.

The Bohlen-Pierce scale is particularly fascinating as it has no octaves.

Sevish really is on point with his compositions.

More exotic scales seem to be well suited for generative electronic music.

Most of the classic excursions are piano/keyboard pieces of the typical avantgarde variety, often composed by people who developed the scales themselves.

Tristan Murail, one of my favorite composers, regularly dabbles in microtonal cacophony. Same goes for Morton Feldman.

https://youtu.be/yLYx31ltmlo

https://soundcloud.com/daveryan23/ryan-sonata-1-cheery

  On 6/22/2017 at 2:13 AM, Brian Tregaskin said:

^ i'm being off-topic but i was pleasantly surprised to hear messiaen's o sacrum convivium which i love on track 6 *closes parenthesis*

Thanks man. That was for a vocal synthesis class. We were given an assignment to construct a track completely made out of human voice. All of the beats are made from William S. Burroughs' voice and the rest is from that Messiaen composition.

https://soundcloud.com/plugexpert/kamulja-helemaal

  On 6/26/2017 at 5:51 PM, Djeroek said:

https://soundcloud.com/plugexpert/kamulja-helemaal

lush! how did you do this?

  On 6/26/2017 at 7:19 PM, Brian Tregaskin said:

 

  On 6/26/2017 at 5:51 PM, Djeroek said:

https://soundcloud.com/plugexpert/kamulja-helemaal

 

how did you do this?

Made the 'synth' sounds in Renoise using small looped samples in combination with the modulation/filter options, then using this tool; https://www.renoise.com/tools/scl-to-xrni loaded up different scale files for the different instruments + moar stuff and tune happened :-) .

https://cunzdimension.bandcamp.com/track/4-4-mikrotonal

Is the Colundi sequence a scale, or a sequencer? Is there some program out there that allows one to compose with it? 

Edit* figured it out...kind of. https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2567

  On 6/21/2017 at 8:39 PM, brian trageskin said:

microtonal as in non-equal temperament

yeah i meant non-12-TET. 

i've already posted this tune in other threads but anyway, epic microtonal shifts: 

Lol

lol

i just found this neat little youtube channel 

trigger warning: contains jacob collier 

Well we tried, @auxien 

  On 7/29/2021 at 5:06 PM, psn said:

 

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Hey @brian trageskin you should transcribe this.  

rarely have i heard a song more rolling lol-worthy than that one…watmm kids these days just can’t pull it together.

jacob lollier  

  On 8/1/2021 at 9:23 PM, toaoaoad said:

Hey @brian trageskin you should transcribe this.  

yeah i wonder what tuning system she's using. next level shit in any case, way advanced.

  On 6/22/2017 at 1:22 AM, Braintree said:

When I was in college, I was required to write a microtonal dance song for a class. This is what happened.

 

[bandcamp width=100% height=42 album=2480039521 size=small bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 track=2366950016]

I there any chance of hearing this? :)

Lurking those old threads can sometimes be a little disappointing since so many tracks get removed.