Name: Angry Mind by Eloi Guri
Duration: 6 min 13 s
Description: Soon out in Spotify and all major platforms, including BandCamp.

'A hundred and forty-six tiles'
a song from the "Hundred And Forty-Blank" EP by Eloi Guri

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Hundred And Forty-Blank

A Hundred And Forty-Six Tiles

This track is used as an introduction to Vapourware Harmonium; An album that utilises the Harmonic Series as a tuning system.
In this work, sustained microtonal* harmonies are prioritised, justifying the high density of overlapping notes chosen on each track. Enjoy!

*Not a good buzzword, but a popularised term for those who don’t want to go in-depth with the theory.

Vapourware Harmonium

An Album On The Harmonic Series

This song introduces the mood of the album. It is tuned in what I call a ‘Standard Harmonic Scale’. You could imagine this scale as ‘just intonation’ with 16 notes and no Perfect 4th.

Tempero

Rotogravure printing is a type of photomechanical printing that is influenced by atmospheric conditions, which are causations of earth’s spherics (earth’s electromagnetic harmonic series). This topic greatly inspired the motivation for this project.

Similar to the previous track, this one also uses a ‘Standard Harmonic Scale’, but with a slightly different selection of notes (not all 16 are used in every composition, to avoid extreme chromaticism). The melodies of some of these instruments remind us of the Turkish Makam, another system with micro-tonalities, as if played by an electric Oud.

Rotogravure Printing

This song has a more radical daring with the tuning; It creates a scale based on the 7th harmonic in relationship to the scale’s root note.
This gives us a scale with no pure Perfect 5th, and plenty of notes with less than 50 cents tuning difference among them, giving off that feeling of downwards gliding modulation.
The lyrics are an adapted poem from Ramon Llull, titled 'A vós, Dona Verge Santa Maria'.

Anthology of the 7th Harmonic (And Ramon Llull)

Back to ‘Standard Harmonic Scale’.
Micro-harmonies are so smooth that you might not notice them at first, but are audible for the trained ear.

‘Oculus tempestas’ means ‘the eye of the storm’, but why?

Oculus Tempestas

This is Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565). Unchanged in composition but tuned to the ‘Standard Harmonic Scale’.

To not make a 9 minute song with just some small tuning changes, I created a hard dance version of it. Absolutely no regrets.

Bach's 565

Liberation

Soon out in Spotify and all major platforms, including BandCamp.

Angry Mind

In times of #Corona people have to keep touching each other without really physically touching each other, by staying #connected in their hearts and minds. This is possible and necessary in order to strengthen the cohesion within the population and to show #solidarity among each other. Through small gestures of attention, helpfulness, encouragement, contact, encouraging words and especially #sharing #music, we can help each other to overcome this unprecedented state of emergency and to remain an #inclusive and #supportive #community.

Our goal is to create a new #opportunity for #DJs from all over the world to share their music without borders and stay #connected #digitally. Moreover the artists will share their personal opinion about the #quarantine situation, explain how it affects them and how they try to deal with it.

Even if it is no longer possible for us to be together physically for an indefinite period of time and to live out our joy and love for music in #clubs and at #festivals, we can still #participate in each other’s lives through an online connection and stand this through together. Although states have #locked their #borders to each other, we shouldn’t create borders in our heads. Now is the time to get rid of all the borders in our minds and tear down the walls in our hearts - we’re in this #together.

Our 17th guest on board is the French producer and Union Trance Mission label owner DJ REIZ

Support the artist: @dj_reiz

Angry Mind

Eloi Guri

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