No Terrestrial Road

1. No Terrestrial Road (14edo) 04:16
2. Vultan Valley (15edo) 04:33
3. Otherworld Express (15edo) 04:00
4. Flow Field (16edo) 05:00
5. Matter Over Mind (10edo) 05:41
6. Inner Alien (17edo) 04:29
7. Involution (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) 04:24

Hi guys! In case you're wondering why there have been some changes around here…

I'm rebranding as "Elaine Walker" (me) now instead of ZIA so that people can differentiate between the older ZIA tunes (which were primarily vocal and used 100% hardware synthesizers) and my newer instrumental music (Four-Momentum and No Terrestrial Road) which is predominantly instrumental and composed mainly on software synths. Never fear. Rebranding me as me doesn't really change much.

Here's a bit of background on No Terrestrial Road:

The No Terrestrial Road title track was inspired by a peculiar, almost creepy, thing I realized about the math I was working on. It's one of those things where you can't get from here to there without going through some imaginary space. There is no terrestrial road from here to there. Humans.. we can't think in enough dimensions! And if humanity is to have any far-flung future, it will continue where there are no terrestrial roads.

That vibe is basically what kicked off this album. I'm also absolutely obsessed with aliens, not just aliens in general, like in movies, but real aliens that are surely peppered evenly distributed around the Universe. Maybe some are here now. Perhaps some were here in the past. I have no idea, but it's all very intriguing. I'm also convinced that unless we intervene with ourselves, we will look like the grey aliens in our far-flung future. Say we floated around in the zero gravitational darkness of space for long enough– our bones would weaken, including our skulls, allowing our brains to spread out and expand. Our eyes would get huge to see in the dark and shielded from radiation. Telepathy (or a Neuralink-like device) would make our facial expressions less necessary, and less focus on eating all day would make our mouths less prominent. Hair is just weird, anyway. So unless we become robots or mutants of some sort on purpose, we'll become the greys. It seems evident to me. Don't worry. It won't happen to your grandkids.

Several different equal temperaments (microtonality!) are used in Four-Momentum – 10edo, 14edo, 15edo,16edo, 17edo, and the Bohlen-Pierce Scale (no octaves!).

Written and Produced by Elaine Walker.

Please visit ZiaSpace.com.

Invaders (10edo)

Elaine Walker is an electronic musician and microtonal composer. She is the author of a non-fiction book, Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity (2016). Realizing she had a gift for visualizing mathematics at age 50, by 54 she had three published math papers (see arXiv.org). She volunteers for the NewSpace community, promoting the idea of humans living in space. She is also a member of Alcor. See http://ZiaSpace.com

Invaders (10edo)

ZIA | Elaine Walker