Four-Momentum

1. Hyperbolica (20edo) 04:32
2. Magic Rectangle (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) 05:24
3. Infinity (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) 05:52
4. Pathogen (15edo) 04:33	
5. Ellipse (14edo) 05:37
6. Tetradecahedron (14edo) 04:36
7. Decagon Dancefloor (10edo) 03:45
8. Mobius (15edo) 04:23
9. Four-Momentum (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) 03:39
10. Wave Equation (17edo) 04:46
11. Euler's Identity (Bohlen-Pierce) 05:35
12. Skate Space (16edo) 04:51
13.Trapezoid (15edo) 04:49	
14. Lorentz Force (17edo) 04:00

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 Four-Momentum:

Four-Momentum was my first solo album in many years, composed with software synths, which have a different sound than my hardware synths that people came to know ZIA by. Even without the lyrical content, it has the expected outer space theme. But instead of the usual humans-in-space motif, these songs were inspired by space-time itself, thus the title Four-Momentum. I think about this stuff a lot, and that's the part of my brain where this music came from.

Many of the songs were also inspired by the math I began doing in 2018– With no practical skills in algebra, I realized that year that I had a weird gift for visualizing mathematical shapes (topological or geometric shapes, thinking in "4d" etc.. infinity must be defeated!). Anyway, I naturally began researching various math topics with my mathematician partner, who was my new best friend at the time, helping me discover I had skills I never knew about. Our first research paper was accepted in 2020 to the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, the same publication where my dad, Elbert A. Walker, was first published in the 1950s. Mom, Carol L. Walker, is also a mathematician and the first woman to get her Ph.D. at New Mexico State University. In closing, I would like my listeners to peruse the topic of four-momentum and Einstein's relativity while listening (or roller skate while listening). Or better yet, check out my math on http://ziaspace.com if you feel inclined. I still can't do algebra, and I don't expect you to either, so I will work in the months to come to translate a lot of it into English (and images, many of which are already posted).

Four-Momentum was my first release since Drum'n'Space (2011), partly because I was writing a 300-page physics/philosophy book – "Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity," now on Amazon. Check it out, and please don't neglect to read the intro. It's one of those books where the intro is so important you may miss the book's main point if you don't read it.

Several different equal temperaments (microtonality!) are used in Four-Momentum – 10edo, 14edo, 15edo,16edo, 17edo, 20edo, and the Bohlen-Pierce Scale (no octaves!). An earlier version of Four-Momentum was released on Split-Notes.com microtonal netlabel, December 2018, and is now being re-released with the songs formerly on the Trapezoid album.

Credits: Written and Produced by Elaine Walker. Thanks to GCG for drum sounds on Hyperbolica and Wave Equation, thanks to Kukutakuta for drum sounds on Euler's Identity, and thanks to Mike Kleinschmidt for drum sounds on Lorentz Force.

Please visit http://ZiaSpace.com.

Lorentz Force (17edo)

Recorded winter 2008-’09 in Beijing. This version forms part of my “Alight Aloft” EP, carefully mixed by Paul Puzyrev for the exquisite http://www.inqb8r.net platform. Clicking on the eye icons brings you to my paintings.  

Air circles - from the Alight Aloft mix

An attempt at a Lambda mode Bohlen Pierce study.

Bohlen Pierce - Lambda Piano Study I

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Longer Than String

Spacemen

You were my cause and effects and my actions
you were the pause and record you were everything to me
you were the brains in my head you were electric
you had me sussed from the start maybe you know that i felt it too

But you've got no reason to be here now
it didn't go to plan
you've got no reason to be grateful for the sorry mess I am
and it's just my luck to not be there when you come around
so I'll see you brother when I see you in the lost and found.

I am the fly in your punch that ruins your party
I am the bone in your throat that chokes the life out of your body
You knock me down and you're counting up to 10
But I'm not preparing to waste another second getting up again.

FAST-fast - Lost and Found(19EDO)

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

Lorentz Force (17edo)

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