The 15th

File under "for the lulz".

In Dishonored, the Overseers have these "music boxes" which play sounds which somehow interfere with magical abilities. There's a book which describes them: 

"Throughout my studies I have found a 17 note scale derived from this phenomenon, and with the right equipment those notes allow for astonishing effects. Not the least of these is the ability to calm the turbulence originating in the Void which we attribute to the Outsider. "

Thing is, the in-game sound for these is just a rubbishy grinding noise. So I've set up my generative music system to play music using an actual 17-note scale. And here it is. It's quite disturbing. I quite like it.

It sounds weird because the music is based on 17 intervals spanning the octave rather than 12, so C2-F3 would be an octave. The actual music is just a slow Thue-Morse sequence setting the base of the scale, and another Thue-Morse picking notes within that scale.

Tech notes: the sound is being generated by Supercollider, using a modified bell sound and a great big reverb over the top. All wired together with JACK.

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