Microtonal

* custom MIDI software
* Behringer Neutron
* overtone series tuning (harmonics 1-12)
* Csound delay and reverb effects

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Sunshine Synth

Just a little sketch in 19-tone equal temperament.

19 edo In Five

Another "study" for a Csound bell instrument I developed.

In the true spirit of ambient, to paraphrase Brian Eno, you can put this on in the background and let it be wallpaper, but if you end up paying attention, your attention will be rewarded.

Bell Study #2 (excerpt)

This work was written for enjoying the drive down Mount Lemmon in Tucson.

Daydream

This is a kind of electronic harpsichord/clavichord performance of an original composition, a Bulgarian Kopanitsa dance. The dance is in a rapid 11/8 time signature.

Kopanitsa

Chord sequence exploring the flavors of the decatonic major scale in 22 EDO discovered and described by Paul Erlich. [Edited to add: The temperament is called "pajara", and it was discovered independently by Erlich and Gene Ward Smith.] It's mellow, just chords. This is the scale in cents, along with 22 EDO sagittal notation:

 0:          1/1           C
 1:        109.091 cents   C||\    D!!/
 2:        218.182 cents   D
 3:        381.818 cents   D/||\   E\!
 4:        490.909 cents   F
 5:        600.000 cents   F||\    G!!/
 6:        709.091 cents   G
 7:        872.727 cents   G/||\   A\!
 8:        981.818 cents   A/|     B\!!/
 9:       1090.909 cents   A/||\   B\!
10:          2/1           C

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Chord sequence in Paul Erlich's 22 EDO decatonic major (pajara).

Using an overdriven rhodes sound to demonstrate how awesome 50EDO is for thirds. Here are most of the thirds, used once each in the sequence. ~15/13 (240c), 7/6 (264c), 13/11 (288c), 6/5 (312c), 17/14 (336c), 5/4 (384c), 9/7 (432c), 13/10 (456c). Which means I've only missed out 16/13 and 81/64(or a mistuned 14/11 if you like).

See if you can work out what's going on by ear. I tried to make the difference tones as obvious as I could by using the gnarliest overdriven sound I could find. I quite like this little chord sequence, but might expand it to try and fit in the other two types of thirds.

Definitely a demo, a few muckups trying to find my way around unfamiliar tonal territory... Enjoy!

Chord sequence for Difference tones in 50EDO

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Completed January 13 (Friday), 2017.

Everyone despises you, but they won’t tell you why. They know that something is different about you, but they can’t quite put their finger on what that would be. Perhaps it is some invisible quality that cannot even truly be detected by quantitative means. Perhaps it is the opposite: so obvious, that your obliviousness towards it, at least for the duration of your lifetime, has been quite an achievement. They despise you, they somehow loathe you, in a hidden, societally unacceptable way, because you check all the boxes perfectly. They have told you that you look good, are gifted, are smart, are apparently kind, are cool, are funny, and friendly, which means that you must objectively be likeable. And yet, somehow, even with   these qualities in the bag, you are still an object of secret scorn. The thing that they hate most about you is not even something that they could collectively name, which may be the source of your latent frustration. It likely has to do with how mysterious and guarded you are, how you are extroverted but cannot flirt, how you are joyful but cannot actually ignore your own depressing thinking. Your success is just as false as your happiness. It is that perceived incongruence, real or not, that is so off-putting, that stinks within you, actively repelling the subconscious of all, save the neophyte and the troglodyte. And perhaps everyone who does appear to like you is faking his or her emotions. Why not? There’s no reason to assume the contrary. In fact, there is better reason to assume a lie, considering mainstream motivations and easily manipulated desires. 

Your artistry, all of it, is profound only as a gimmick or an as obscure phenomenon, there for those haters to simply marvel and gawk at because they have not done the same. Who has ever become ethical by simply being new and unique? You have never done so, and never will, even though others may have. To be inventive in the moral realm is a slippery slope to evil with the wrong evolution, and you have been so dull, and so lacking of self-awareness, that the wind and the rain have simply tossed you from one viewpoint to another as you “think” they would. Your worldview is no better than anyone else’s if you consume your own logical medicine like sustenance instead of candy like everyone else claims. Your role as a mere machine or cog, and your inability to conjecture, undermines you as equally as the ant, or anything that nature conjured. And, you try to make things equivalent that are not supposed to be equivalent, or will not be perceived as such.

But maybe no one despises you after all, and you are simply unlucky. “It’s Friday the 13th” you say, knowing full well that this thirteen has lasted the whole month for so many, so many who are not yourself, and who suffer more than you. Your bad luck is their delight, you privileged fool, and they would trade their sanity for your shoes. How dare you entertain this paranoia that you have some fatal flaw, that you let this conceptual femme fatale ensnare your thinking and drive you around in circles? Don’t you know that it’s wasteful to lust after such intellectual falsehood, that its distortion causes suffering that does not even exist to others, or possibly even yourself? A mere mention of this would inspire laughter. What reason do you have to be uncertain compared to anyone else? And why should they believe your anxiousness, since you exude confidence like an expert?

A Mean Little Voice (Bohlen-Pierce, or 13-ED3)

A Norwegian tune, but a Welsh song, about the sea and the yearning to go to sea. Here as a violin duet.

Llongau Caernarfon/Caernarfon Harbour

Ensemble Scala at MicroFest Amsterdam 2019: Ere Lievonen and Ivan Pavlov, Fokker (31-tone) organ; Stefan Gerritsen, 31-tone electric guitar; Raymond Honing, flute; Michel Marang, clarinet; Manuel Visser, viola; Mervyn Groot, drums and percussion.
The tuning system is 31 equal divisions of the octave. With the exception of the section that begins at 11'18", the music is written in the temperament whose scales are generated by the 11-step interval, 425.8¢, ie. ~9/7, 'Skwares', used as a 13-limit system with no intervals of 5.
Marche funèbre tricésimoprimale was commissioned by Ensemble Scala. It was written in 2017 and premiered in Amsterdam in 2018.
This performance was recorded live on the 1st of December, 2019, at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam

Marche funèbre tricésimoprimale

A collection of short pieces utilizing unique tunings other than 12-TET. 

10 edo Etude

Interested in lots of different kinds of music. Compositions of my own are usually microtonal experiments, often in a pseudo-classical style.

Chord sequence in Paul Erlich's 22 EDO decatonic major (pajara).

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