"Just a Shadow" Electronic music with vocals.
"Late night shadows,  steal across the floor "

Just a Shadow

Just A Shadow

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Title:
	No Return

Dates:
16-Mar-2024 (inception), 29-Mar-2024 (finalised), 31-Mar-2024 (released)

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

BandCamp Purchase (and more detail on tuning):
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/no-return

Description:
Inspired by a 41 note just intonation (JI) video from the Lumatone people, thought I would construct my own 41 JI scale. Whilst trying out the scale, I liked what I heard and started composing and recording, this formed the backing track to give the feel of the piece. Could not resist to add in the main melodic and textural parts using the Soma Laboratory Pipe.

The 41 JI scale was formed by taking combinations of primes, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13 as the numerator for the frequency ratio, then octave reducing by powers of 2. These were sorted by the least number of prime numerator combinations, (one prime the least ("pure interval"), six primes the most (complex interval)), then allocating to the nearest 41 EDO note. These primes only appeared on the numerator. So this forms a an unequal scale of 41 notes based upon just intonation.

This 41 JI was then mapped onto an Ableton Push2 midi keyboard, an 8x8 note pad. The step spacing in the horizontal direction was 7 (approximately a tone) and 1 step ( in the vertical direction. This resulted in the diatonic (white notes) to appear as a Bosanquet like shape,
forming a stair case note pattern.

A custom mapping Max for Live (M4L) device was used for the one to two dimensional keyboard mapping (NOF_Midi_NotePitchLookup_Rel08), and the Ableton Live Microtuner for the microtuning using a scala file of:

41JIFromPrimes1To13UpTo6Combinators
41
65/64
135135/131072
135/128
273/256
35/32
9009/8192
9/8
585/512
297/256
19305/16384
77/64
39/32
5/4
1287/1024
165/128
21/16
1365/1024
693/512
11/8
45/32
91/64
1485/1024
189/128
3/2
195/128
99/64
6435/4096
819/512
13/8
27027/16384
27/16
55/32
7/4
455/256
231/128
117/64
15/8
3861/2048
495/256
63/32
2/1

It was then a case of finding notes in the 41JI that suited my mood at the time and the instrument used. The 41 JI was played through tracks 1 and 2, using the Ableton Live "Poly 60 Saw" with some customisations, one of them being my M4L Device, the NOF_AENV, an audio enveloper to apply an amplitude envelope to the incoming audio, where the envelopes were a combinations of sine and pulse waves of independent frequencies and wet|dry mixes.

The remaining tracks three to nine were all sourced from the Soma The Pipe instrument. The Pipe algorithms used where Orpheus, Drum and Harcho, where my voice was the input. At times my didgeridoo playing was miced by a Sure Green Bullet, through an L.R. Baggs Para Acoustic D.I. (pre-amp), then to The Pipe, using the echo and pulse algorithms. The last track, took digital samples of The Pipe and feed it into a drum rack to play it rhythmically, plus a touch of grain delay.

The Orpheus mode of The Pipe lets the audio input exit two tun-able resonators, the tuning sets the fundamental frequency. The spectral plot of this mode shows peaks as a harmonic series, so when the voice is fed into The Pipe in Orpheus mode, a JI scale is heard.

The didgeridoo is capable of some tuning from the player, but is more relaxed for the player to adopt to it's natural frequency and overtones, so the backing tracks playing the 41 JI scale, needed a key transpose for the didgeridoo part. Hey, it's all improvised played, not a strictly planned composition, so I had to go with the flow.

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