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it's 9 years later - this track still breaks my head! And I wrote it

"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

This track was written to demonstrate the harmonic possibilities of using higher harmonics freely whenever the composer wishes, without the bounds of a traditional scale, but within the bounds of major/minor/seventh harmony. It is also quite funky!

Harmonics of 11ths, 13th, 23rds etc are prominent in this composition, without being overwhelming in their unusualness. The highest prime harmonic used was the 127th harmonic in the final melody! E#''' was also used (125th harmonic)

It was written using a new notation system which has been devised to make accessing higher harmonics as intuitive as possible (it still takes a bit of getting one's head around!). Please contact me if you would like to see the score written in this notation system, or for details about how this notation system enables interesting harmonic composition outside of the bounds of the Western 12-note scale to be realised.

It qualifies for chiptune since although it is (much to my shame) 16-bit 44100Hz audio instead of the pure 8-bit, the sounds were synthesised from scratch using modified sin/saw waves, with a bit of band-limited noise thrown in for good measure. The synth took as input CSV 6xN matrices as sequence files, and processed in Octave/MATLAB to give MP3 output which you hear here.
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update 10th Apr 2015:

Here is a brief description of how the MP3 track was generated:

Just Intonation Notes (1/1 4/3 7/4 etc) <-> New Notation System (C F `Bb~7 etc) which is easier to read than pure numbers and where the letter corresponds (roughly) to the position in the 12ET scale
-> Excel block of chords and melody notes for visual presentation to composer (.txt)
-> Excel long (~1700 columns) of calculated note letters, frequencies, note lengths, etc
-> Excel final sequence file with 6 columns: channel, start time, frequency, note length, loudness, stereo position (.csv)
-> Octave/MATLAB code to take the 6 columns and turn them into chiptune (.mp3 or .wav)
-> Sometimes extra post processing in Audacity for final .wav

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See also:
- https://arxiv.org/a/ryan_d_1 (arXiv) for a list of my academic paper pre-prints, including my writing on music theory and Just Intonation
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4785-9766 (ORC ID) for my academic profile
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidryan59 for my LinkedIn profile

Sonata 1 'Cheery' - Chip Synth, Justly Intoned

Hypnosis for sleep

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

Desert Island Rain

Tonality Flux Demo

Chiptune drum and bass in a microtonal just intonation scale.

Harmony Hacker

Ask Yourself

New cassette out now! https://goto8o.bandcamp.com/album/w93-m3u-data996 // Also available at http://www.windows93.net

I124Q

immolation celebration

Semaphore[9] in 19-EDO

The scale is a chain of half-fourths. Here the melody always is a 5-note subset of the full scale to match the underlying chord.

The lyrics are actually in English but not intended to be easily intelligible.

Sounds from:
None other than the legendary vocaloid Kagamine Rin
DSI Prophet 6
DSI/RL Tempest

Rin's UFO Ride

Made in one day during boring lectures...
Released @ Notlicht 2020

Picture taken from https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=76793

Reflections

Made with LSDj 8.9.3

Originally made for some Russian compo that got cancelled in August, "Hard Justice" is an aggressive song delivering vicious heavy punch in bass frequencies, that no bad guy could survive.

Hard Justice

not my photo this time
from split and from summer 2019 too

0 mornings

Singles

Daydream

made during a little 1h stream

tuning is godzilla[9]

Semaphore Frog

This is a piece for Finger Piano, Bass Flute, Cello, and Dry Spring. The Dry Spring is an amplified percussion instrument I made back in the 1970′s for live performance. All the sounds are made with Csound as a sample based synthesizer. Tuning is 53 tone to the octave equal divisions of octave (53-EDO). There are many sections where the pitch is shifted up by one 53-EDO step at a time, almost imperceptively.

Whisper Song in 53 EDO

hi i occasionally post bits of ""music"" here.
also anything labelled with another artist name is definitely by that artist, and not by me.

I'm into Just Intonation (JI), which is using harmonics (or undertones) to generate music. Over time, my profile will fill up with wonderful and melodious New Harmony, fresh from the infinite vaults of the original and best source of harmony, Just Intonation.

I’ve written some papers on the music theory of Just Intonation. You can check them out via the arXiv link below. Topics include the mathematical analysis of harmony (in Just Intonation), and a notation system to cover all of Just Intonation.

Enjoy listening!

Sonata 1 'Cheery' - Chip Synth, Justly Intoned

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