Name: Ruins of ISS 0317 by brycehathaway in ｘｅｎ / avant garde / experimental
Duration: 7 min 3 s
Description: Original composition which realizes what I call the "circle of subminor 3rds."

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"Xenharmonic" music with alternative tuning (e.g. Just Intonation, Bohlen-Pierce, Wendy Carlos scales). Also some noise/concrete music, and a few otherwise typical pieces with a single odd aspect such as uneven rhythm.

ｘｅｎ / avant garde / experimental

Mohajira improv

From Rhythm and Xen (2015) by Sevish:
https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-xen

Desert Island Rain

Original composition which realizes what I call the "circle of subminor 3rds."

Ruins of ISS 0317

This work used a drone and long pauses, as well as the voice, to achieve an eerie and otherworldly effect. The drone continually morphs over one chord, but transitions between timbres. I wanted the piece to sound like it was too confusing to understand, but with hints of intelligibility. I also used Max MSP's vocoder capabilities to create the robotic effect in the voice. I also manipulated several sounds using granular synthesis and ring modulation, as well as convolution. The lyrics (which I wrote) are:

'Darkness drips with pallid sheen, and it makes its way to earth, whose halo hung with light cannot handle hubris.'
'Time passes, future and past, what writings ever shall last?
Ideas rock to and fro, never revealed or shown.'

Meant to sound very lofty, inaccessible, and even contradictory by confusion.

Invisible Machines

The third of movement of 'Three Pieces for Electric Kantele in Just Intonation' (2009). Emma Kuntsi at her graduation recital, Sibelius Academy, Finland, Apr 23, 2016. Special kantele with the following 21 pitch classes (1/1 = C): 1/1, 25/24, 27/25, 9/8, 75/64, 6/5, 5/4, 32/25, 125/96, 4/3, 25/18, 36/25, 3/2, 25/16, 8/5, 5/3, 125/72, 9/5, 15/8, 48/25, 125/64. Fifth-tones ('diesis') abound, and septimal intervals, such as 7:4 and 7:6, are approximated by 5-limit intervals, making use of the 225/224 comma. 

Suloinen Diesis (balladi) [Sweet Diesis (a Ballade)]

Tonality Flux Demo

Chiptune drum and bass in a microtonal just intonation scale.

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Ruins of ISS 0317

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