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Ichika Nito - I Finally Play In Standard Tuning

Some of my earliest recorded stuff, still my roots, Mar 3rd, 2008.
Sitar, Gamelan, and Stravinsky inspired bass (that period anyhow).

Primordial

Clasp

TIKI Impressionism. Bobbing - Scales against scales.
Acoustic guitar, Reface wurli/hammond.

Weather Buoy

First try of 2 pitchshifted-electroacoustic-violins combined with the Organic Keyboard Tablet Instrument(3 players... Alexandre on the tactile screen , and Roland and Ivo on 2 violins)

Oups i forgot to cut the sound... second half of the video is not the tactile instrument, but just part of this demo video of the pitchshifted-electroacoustic-violins : https://www.facebook.com/DynamicIntonation/posts/645200288892772

First try of 2 pitchshifted-electroacoustic-violins combined with the Tablet (3 players)

Rhodes and Flanger (& more). 1/2 of 1/7th of one mermaid band setup (didn't even have pitch-bend or pedal wah filters operative (MIDI was down for service), or my other seven instruments) {so basically an early full-analog release}.

Uncle Martin 1/2 of 1/7th

Uncle Martin 1-2 of 1-7th

Webbed Toes

Circus Train

Harmonics 12-24 scale in Pianoteq, demonstrating Pianoteq's internal overdrive effect + Reaper's MIDI Pitchbend LFO vibrato. Long ending decay.

Distteq

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

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/quantum-shells

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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Quantum Shells

Title:
Glass and Pipe

Dates:
28-Sep-2024 (inception), 28-Sep-2024 (finalised), 12-Nov-2024 (released)

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

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/glass-and-pipe

Description:
It all began with a post from Tim Kroker on the Soma Laboratory FaceBook page, triggering the Soma Pulsar 23 with a drum head without midi, and the dismantling of some of our old garden furniture destined for the garbage tip. A lucky coincidence in time.

Our garden furniture table had given up the ghost, which included a 40cm x 70cm glass plate top. My son said that glass plate would make a good glass plate mic, that got me thinking. The glass plate was still in good condition, hm, what would this sound like with a contact pickup attached, feed through the Soma Pipe and Soma Cosmos?

Various sound ideas were recorded on a custom digital eight track recorder, where I could mess with the audio slices and playback rates, layer it all together. The glass plate was hit with a rubber eraser, and crudely held in place by resting one corner on the carpet in my home studio and the opposite corner held with my hand. The contact mic was fed through a pre-amp, then off to the Soma Pipe, either capturing the true acoustics of the vibrating glass plate or triggering one of the drum effects in the Pipe. Then to mess with the audio textures some more and create that bubbling sound, fed the audio to the Soma Cosmos.

Pressed record on the eight track and began a live improvisation.

The bell sound from the glass plate was played back at just intonation frequency ratios of 3/2, 1/1, 5/4 and 3/1, providing a nice harmony and an interesting polyrhythm.


Glass and Pipe

Two months of surgery nerve pain and watching lots of TV, like the Ramayana.

Kali and Shiva, aka nerve pain

Kali And Shiva aka Nerve Pain

A mixture between the ancient Armenian Duduk , Oriental Oud & the modern electric music 
#Duduk #Oud # Oriental #soul #House #lounge #deephouse #chillout

Mare Caspium.mp3

A guitar-like piece from long ago in 25-note equal temperament

MusicWorks 61

A Study in Fives

4th tune in set (I forgot title)

Featuring Edward Keller on the trumpet
Bild von Marek Studzinski auf Pixabay

Let the Sunshine IN

Microtonal spectralist fugue one-mermaid-band on slide-guyageum-guitar and shamanic opera vocals.

Experimental bluegrass sitar surf jazz.

Primordial

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