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DARK AMBIENT - UPON THY KNEES

Mesh

Track 1: Trunk, 02:19 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8)
Track 2: Leaves, 04:14 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8, Soma Pipe)
Track 3: Rings, 04:49 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8)
Track 4: Vines, 06:43 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8, Soma Enner, Whistling)
Track 5: Roots, 02:15 (Tree Hum, Soma Pipe)


Dates:
17-Nov-2025 (inception), 19-Nov-2025 (finalised), 19-Nov-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/album/mesh

Description:

A twisted tale of synthesiser dreams, aspirations and dreams meet reality. I have been intrigued by hardware synthesiser the Soma Lyra 8 for some time now, dating back some 3 years or so. Back in December 2024, inspired by the design concept of the Lyra 8 with it's two stage hierarchy tuning system and importantly before I purchased a Lyra 8 late 2025, I wrote down some sketches of my own synthesiser concept, which later became to be known as Tree Hum. This album celebrates the meeting point of the Tree Hum and the Soma Lyra 8.

The description here is a shortened version, see my FaceBook page (Norman Freund) or my BandCamp site for the full description.

Having a back ground in structural vibration analysis, makes one aware of coupled resonances, how the structure, stiffness and mass all interact to bring about the final vibration response. On the other side of my creative brain, I let my imagination drift to a tuning system inspired by trees, a four stage hierarchy tuning system, starting from the trunk, to branches, smaller branches and finally to the leaves -- the voice of the synthesiser. The tuning system is based on frequency ratios, starting at the tree trunk, the master, then as each level is passed through it adds it's own frequency ratio to the frequency ratio inherited from it's predecessor. Do real trees behave like this? No, but let's not let reality get in the way of creativity. Nature, engineering, mathematics and human imagination inspire synthesiser and music composition.

The tuning system used here was inspired by the work of Neil Thornock Ref. [1]. For the full details of what Thornock's tuning system was changed to, see https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/album/mesh and https://www.facebook.com/norman.freund.545/.


References:
[1]	Neil Thornock, 13 Nov 2025, FaceBook Group "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory", Icicle, JI tuning based on harmonics 24 to 48, Link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14T7Tyhcky3/


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