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Title:
Quantum Shells

Dates:
05-Oct-2024 (inception), 05-Oct-2024 (finalised), 08-Oct-2024 (released)

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

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Description:
Music inspired by physics.

On the 4-Oct-2024, Kristal McKinstry (Ref. [1]) posted on the "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory" FaceBook group a micro-tuning scale inspired by quote:
"Electrons have relative shell orbits based on power of quantum shell, i.e. 1 4 9 16 25 36 49"
(end quote)

Ref. [1] provided the frequency ratios as
quote:
50/49
9/8
32/25
64/49
49/36
25/18
36/25
72/49
49/32
25/16
16/9
49/25
(End Quote)

I took the first seven ratios of Ref. [1] assuming it started with a 1/1 ratio. Don't quite remember why I only took the first seven notes.

The portion I used from Ref. [1] were the following frequency Just Intonation (JI) ratios (octave reduction portion shown in []:
(1) / (1)
([2]*5^2) / (7^2)
(3^2) / ([2^3])
([2^5]) / (5^2)
([2^6]) / (7^2)
(7^2) / (3^2*[2^2])
(5^2) / (3^2*[2])

which in cents is (rounded):
0c
35c
204c
427c
462c
534c
569c

These were defined in a scala tuning file using the exact integer JI ratios, not as cents.

Perhaps I should have used all twelve plus the 1/1 and 2/1 ratios of Ref. [1], but I just went with my whim and only used the first seven notes, which gave a frame interval of 1.388 instead of the usual 2/1 ratio of an octave.

Discussing this tuning with the McKinstry post composition completion, revealed that the intension was that it was assumed that the tuning began with 1/1 and ended in 2/1 to complete the octave.

To put me in a certain frame of mind during this composition, I thought of vibrating electrons and as I scanned through the instrument list in Ableton Live, I came across the chime and bell and thought, perfect. Some more sound hunting landed me on electric strings for the chordal section, an impression of electrons humming. Mind you, this is all very fanciful, I suspect if any vibration of an electron could be captured it would not be within the limits of human hearing, so I actually do not know what the vibration of a real electron would sound like, but hey, "don't let the truth get in the road of a good story" :) . This then set the back drop to improvise freely using my voice through the Soma Pipe fed into the Soma Cosmos (hardware drifting memory station), then feed back into Ableton Live, where all the recording and arranging took place.

Thanks again to Kristal McKinstry for the inspiration your tuning gave for this composition.

References:
[1] Kristal McKinstry, 4 October 2024 10:52, posting on the FaceBook group "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory".

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