Name: Mynefielde (demo) by Xen Seas
Duration: 3 min 52 s
Description: Guitar parts performed with a 14-EDO guitar plus pitch shifter.

Buy it here
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-california

Damon Waitkus – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, keyboards, hammer dulcimer, etc
Emily Packard – violin
Jason Hoopes – bass
Jordan Glenn – drums
Thea Kelley – vocals

Leaving California

JACK O' THE CLOCK "Jubilation" from "Leaving California" (Cuneiform Records)

Long description. Timecodes below.

Many, many years ago I wrote a song for two standard guitars called "Speak Your Language". I also added bass and drums to it at some point.

One day I reversed a version of it with two guitars and bass and I really really liked it. It sounded like a completely different song to me. I called it "Capes Roy". The name didn't have any meaning as far as I remember. I tried to write out a MIDI representation of it, but never really did much with it.

Today I finished a MIDI version of Capes Roy, then reversed it to get a version of Speak Your Language I'd never heard before.

For historical purposes, I put the most up-to-date version of Speak Your Language after it, then the original version of Capes Roy that captured my imagination.

Also sorry the MIDI playback is very jittery. Didn't want to jump through hoops to fix it. Just meant to be representative anyway.

TIMECODES:

0:00 Capes Roy
2:55 Speak Your Language (Capes Roy Reversed)
5:49 Speak Your Language
8:14 Capes Roy (Speak Your Language Reversed)

CR (SYL) / SYL (CR)

This is a redux of my Logic Pro 8 realization of my double mixed quintet for my master's thesis, 2003, for 11 players that all branch out into 11 different tempi, but never had the quartertone synthesizer, nor the quartertone detuning between the quintets. This redux builds on the Logic Pro version by adding a new set of instruments from PianoTeq6, using .scl files, and PianoTeq's amazing detuning features. Also, the materials have been altered, using contrapuntal techniques of augmentation and diminution in counterpoint to the previous materials. 2018

Two Worlds

Guitar parts performed with a 14-EDO guitar plus pitch shifter.

Mynefielde (demo)

I would like my dreams to mean something, something…
Inspiring timeless art within my wasting head, the perfect scene…
But without my conscious will, my brain is truly fickle
Yielding no constructive weight in this deterministic tickle
I don’t want to go to sleep! I don’t wanna!

I will be mature enough to leave the comfortable bath
My eternity of make-believe training gives light to my path
To put on clothes without closed eyes!

Why make mountains out of molehills,
When we are all ants,
And the universe is billions of lights,
And billions of light years,
And trillions of years will defeat all fears.
Dissipating into the void, equalized in death!
I don’t want to go to sleep! I don’t wanna go!

Oh, but I’ll have to go to sleep…
Every day is 24 hours and that’s the way it keeps!
I don’t want to go to sleep! Not right now, not right now!

How long would you have to be awake
before the world would make no sense
Your joys and hopes and urge to dwell
Why, Wormwood, this would all be quelled
Dulled, dead, doornail, polished stars of night!
Night, Night, Night, Night, Night, Night... 

(Interlude)

All shower songs I sing are wasted breath and water,
Made a heathen anthem sinking and lowered into the drain,
Pain is relative but I am real,
I do not believe in me anymore...

Dreams have told me I may live
Through the portal of death’s door
Mortal as we may seem
Seizing according scream
Freezing our thinking love in a sunbeam

(Small instrumental)

I would like my dreams to mean something, something…
something… something… something… something… something…
My last, my last dreamscape rolling on
always nonsense, distant watchman
Nightmare spirits vanishing
Smoke and mirrors ‘flect forgetting!

November 17, 1998:
"My story begins when it was nighttime, I had a dream. It was not a happy dream but it was a nightmare. My pillow changed its picture. My sheet's colors looked new. And the eating gorilla came out of my pillow. It was very, very, very, very, very, very, very scary. It started to eat my head while I was laying on it. I felt so scared that I am frightened. Um, and he cooled my head down and then his mouth ate it. But it was just a quick pretend dream. Then I said, 'Nightmare!' and then my mom ran upstairs and I woke her up in the middle of the night. Um, when the dream was over, it wasn't scary anymore. I was very scared last time. And then I promised next time I wouldn't wake her up. And that's all of my story."

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Weigel, 
July 5th, 2018.

Fiat Circadia (10 - EDO)

DL: https://belorusia.bandcamp.com/track/1luvx6yfivgicncybpr1tmykeukzzejib9

1LUVx6yfivGiCnCyBPR1tmykeUkZZEJiB9

Non - Turn

All synths and processor by Ye Olde Lancaster.

Triangulo em forma de gente - instrumental em Orwell [9]

First bit of electronic music I've written in a long while.
Written in Iceface tuning, created by Hidekazu Wakabayashi, where black keys on the piano are tuned quarter-sharp.

Sharp Hooting (WIP)

Spacemen

2020/11/01 Stream Track (24EDO, WIP)

microtonal music testing lab, 6000 leagues under the sea. also check out my band The Mercury Tree. http://themercurytree.bandcamp.com

Mynefielde (demo)

Xen Seas

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