A collection of
original Xenharmonic compositions in a variety of
alternative tuning systems
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Mansion Groove
A piece based on a sub-set of 53 EDO
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Early Heaven
I composed this piece the day of my mother’s 91st birthday
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WhirliZen
No MIDI data whatsoever
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Remembering JZ
I composed this piece to
make sure I was still able to create crazy stuff
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Ananda Dance
A mellow microtonal piece
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Vocodrone
How I retune audio processed by a Roland VT-4
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Clarinet
Incantation
I wanted to create a piece
with bells...
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Septimal Heaven 2
Another piece featuring the “Septimal Heaven” tuning system
by X.J.Scott
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Septimal Heaven 1
“Septimal Heaven” is a non-octave scale created in 1999 by
X.J.Scott
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Starship Earth
An improvisation using the Continuum Fingerboard
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OtherWordly 1
A vaguely middle-eastern sounding piece
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50 Shades of Gamma
The nth study on Carlos Gamma
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Peter Gunn 13 (PG13)
A
microtonal version of this famous theme by Henry Mancini
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RainForest
An atmospheric soundscape
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Gamma Constant
Structures
The nth study on Carlos
Gamma
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Babylon Gamma
This piece started as a
study using Carlos Gamma...
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Zawigam
How to send the output of a microtonal arpeggiator to the
ContinuuMini
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Bhairava Bungalow
The idea was to see if I was
able to create a microtonal arpeggiator
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The 88th Door
An abstract piece in 88cET
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Peaceful Soundscape
1
A piece inspired by Indian classical music
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10 PRS
A piece in 10ED2
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Hal Dreams Symphony
A piece recorded only using
the Haken ContinuuMini. No MIDI data involved
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Xenharmonic Liberation
Army
An alien-sounding piece
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Alfred
This morning I was informed
my uncle Alfredo died yesterday...
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Quarantine 2
Another piece written during the quarantine
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Quarantine 1
This is the effect of the
quarantine for the Coronavirus on me!
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Sunday Mourning
A short piece featuring Reason 11 and the Haken
ContinuuMini
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Alphanon
This is my first experiment playing xenharmonic music with
the ContinuuMini
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Close encounters of the nth
kind
Few days ago I received my
Haken ContinuuMini
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Sahara
This is a new piece in 15
EDO I composed using my 15 EDO keyboard
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Non-Octave
Melancholic
An experiment using a 28ED3
tuning system
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Ligon_Sunday_Sevens
Second collaboration between Jacky Ligon and me
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Around The Bonfire
Another atmospheric piece of the White Lotus series
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Atlantis
Another atmospheric piece, this time using what I call a
Pseudo Asian tuning
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J.F.Sebastian's
Lullaby
Dedicated to
this fictional
character from the movie Blade Runner
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Lotus 13
An atmospheric piece tuned
to 13ED2 with A = 432Hz
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Two At Once 2
A remake of a piece composed in 2009 using old and new
sounds
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Forward Gamma March
Featuring a bunch of discontinued products
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Nubian Dance
A piece using a dodecatonic subset of 23EDO
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Jayni’s song
An atmospheric Carlos Alpha song
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Vimantra
An atmospheric Carlos Gamma piece
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Fuzzy Logic
An intentionally poly-microtonal piece!
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A Nearly Normal
Sunday
This jazzy piece is the
outcome of an experiment with a LMSO’s feature: Tuning
Latch
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11 Dwarfs
A silly
song for the upcoming movie:
Snow White and
the Eleven Dwarfs
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From The Diary Of The 13th
Fly
A piece in a dodecatonic mode of 13ED2
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Do Androids Dream Of
18ED2?
A free chiseled
improvisation
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Organum 1 - Organum 2
Two pieces using a dodecatonic Carlos Gamma subset
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Sea Of Tranquility
When I composed this piece I
was looking for a peaceful retreat...
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In Q
A piece inspired by the famous In C
by Terry Riley
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Gamma Meditation
A slow-paced piece in Carlos Gamma
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Miles of Space
A new piece composed using
the Carlos Alpha tuning system and my Alpha keyboard
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Venusian Wedding
Band
My first unconsciously polymicrotonal piece
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Alpha Abstract 1
A song played with my Alpha
keyboard tuned to Carlos Alpha
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Out of Gamma Body
Experience
This piece is the first one
using Carlos Gamma in a long time
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Berimbau 13
One more song using a
dodecatonic mode of 13ED2 played with an Halberstadt
keyboard
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MP13
This song is an experiment
testing a Kawai MP6 as a microtonal sound module
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Alpha Delinquent
A piece featuring my newest synth, a Waldorf Blofeld and my
Alpha15 keyboard
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Hocus-Bogus 13
One more piece featuring
13ED2 (the
Equal
Division of
ratio
2:1
into
13 steps of
92.308 cents each)
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In Memoriam JY
A piece featuring Jorgensen’s 7+5 temperament
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JY’s Infra-Worlds
This piece was inspired
by A
Theory of Evolving Tonality, a book written by Joseph
Yasser
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Smooth 10
My third piece in 10ED2
(Equal
Division of
ratio
2:1
into
10 steps of
120 cents each)
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Waltz 10
My second piece in 10ED2
(Equal
Division of
ratio
2:1
into
10 steps of
120 cents each)
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Blues 10
A piece in 10ED2
(Equal
Division of
ratio
2:1
into
10 steps of
120 cents each)
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New World
A piece in 9ED2
(Equal
Division of
ratio
2:1
into
9 steps of
133.333 cents each)
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FunkEight 1
A piece in 8ED2
(Equal
Division of
ratio
2:1
into
8 steps of
150 cents each)
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Doomsday 23
My last composition before the predicted end of the world
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Galactic Overload
This song is the second one
featuring my cannibalized M-Audio Keystation 61es
keyboard
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Ode For Ada
Playing a cannibalized keyboard in 15EDO
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Concertina 13
A new piece featuring 13ED2
and MOTU Ethno2 retuned with LMSO
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Thirteenstan
A vocal piece in 13ED2 (Equal
Division of
ratio
2:1
into
13 steps of
92.308 cents each)
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SazDul 13
My third piece in 13ED2 (Equal
Division of
ratio
2:1
into
13 steps of
92.308 cents each)
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Fast And Furious 13
My second piece in 13ED2 (Equal
Division of
ratio
2:1
into
13 steps of
92.308 cents each)
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13 Miles
A piece in 13ED2 (Equal
Division of
ratio
2:1
into
13 steps of
92.308 cents each)
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Bossa Sbilenca
A straight bossa nova rhythm
used to play a slightly sbilenco
non-octave piece
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Alpha seems to be the hardest
world
Another vocal experiment
with Melodyne
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Alpha Choir
A short a cappella composition for four voices
tuned to a dodecatonic mode of Carlos Alpha
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Alpha El Din
the natural evolution of my
experiments with Melodyne Editor 2.0
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Wildly Melodyning
a video showing editing techniques with Melodyne 2
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Gadudyne
An experiment following the
upgrade to version 2 of Celemony Melodyne.
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DisMLosphere
A video showing an experiment using my Chameleon with Disarray, M, Omnisphere and Logic Pro.
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Cubana Al Cubana
Pha
A study in the use of different user interfaces.
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AlphaTherem Waltz
A duo for theremin and guitar with some ‘digital wind’ here
and there.
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Alpha Dulcimer
My first piece composed using Carlos Alpha with my Chameleon
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23 Laments
featuring a few sub-modes
of 23EDO
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Desert Winds
An improvisation (in
23EDO) I recorded in a single
take playing an Omnisphere’s sound
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tiBETAn dreams
An experiment with a mode
of Carlos Beta called CarlosBetaPIANO1
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Tribalism #2
With a little help
from Melodyne Assistant!
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Tribalism #1
A pitch shift tour de force
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The Dawn Of Beta
Featuring a Wendy Carlos’s
non-octave tuning systems: Carlos Beta
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Autumnal
Modulations
The first song I composed employing extensive modulations
(with Carlos Gamma tuning system)
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Bicycles And Bowls
A free improvisation
featuring 3 Spectrasonics Omnisphere’s sounds
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Bad Henkings
A collaboration among
Alister Flint, Chris Vaisvil and me
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Conference Of
Flutes
A demo of MOTU’s
Ethno2
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Gamma Breezin
The title says it all: I play Gamma in a casual or
lighthearted manner
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Gamma Raga
A song featuring a couple of
violin sounds from MOTU Ethno2, a Nord G2 drone sound and a few percussion
loops
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Hal Trumpetti
A XenoRomantic song
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Delta Gamma Blues - Version
2
My entry to the AEH Ethno2 microtonal demos
competition
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Delta Gamma Blues
... or how to retune
MOTU Ethno2 sounds without having to
deal with Scala files!
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The Singing
Alchemist
Featuring Camel Audio
Alchemy BigTone sound library and
Spectral Vocoder, a Nord G2 patch by Swiss
synthesist Tim Kleinert
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Glorious 60
My submission to the
2010 60x60 project
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Gamma Monk
One night I had a dream of myself playing B*** M*** by
T********* M*** on my Opal Chameleon tuned to Carlos Gamma with an Omnisphere’s guitar sound
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Chameleons In The
Sun
A song using Carlos Gamma tuning system and
Omnisphere’s guitar sounds.
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Glorious Guitars, a short piece based on the
following theory: Tetrachordal Gamma
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Gamma Elegy
The second piece I have
composed using my Opal Chameleon
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Chameleons in the
dark
The first piece I have
composed playing my Opal Chameleon
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An Irishman in
Guangdong
The title alludes to the
hybrid character of the song, the melodic line reminds
me of traditional Irish music but played on exotically
tuned Asian instruments
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Bix in the sky with
Gamma
This tune sounds, to me,
like the soundtrack of some TV series of the 50’s
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MetaJar, Groovoland
MetaSynth 5 experiments
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RibboMan and the
Maniacs
A ribbon
extravaganza, one of my all-time
favorites
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Soprano RibbonSax
An experiment using
the Doepfer R2M ribbon controller
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Moonlight Gamma
Serenade
A piece for strings using the a mode of Carlos Gamma tuning system
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Ribbon Flute
Featuring a Doepfer R2M ribbon controller
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Tim's Flutes
In memory of Tim Conrardy
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Two At Once
A 12tET tune with a
microtonal twist!
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Gammalan
A composition based on Carlos Gamma tuning system using a
gamelan inspired virtual orchestra
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Adagio Gamma
A slow piece
using Carlos Gamma tuning system
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Underwater Dreaming
It started out as
an experiment while browsing the new sounds of
Spectrasonics Omnisphere 1.0.3
update
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Neutral Steel
A song for xenharmonic lap steel guitar and drums
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Carlos Glass 1
A short example demonstrating DYNAMIC MODULATION
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88 Bulgarians
While fooling around with Spectrasonics Omnisphere I stumbled on this choir
sound that I tweaked a bit
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Moonsuite
An experiment using an "empirical" tuning I made up while
studying LMSO's new tuning latch function
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7EDO Dance
A study of "7 steps Equal Division of the
Octave" tuning system
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Qablitum
A piece inspired by listening to this lecture of February
1971 by Lou Harrison: The Tuning of the Babylonian
Harp
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Alphadesert
A piece featuring Carlos Alpha tuning system
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Hijaz the Charmer
It is based on the traditional Arabic mode called
Maqam Hijaz
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Bohl-en Roll
a piece based on a dodecatonic scale which repeats every
1901.955 cents (3/1 ratio)
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88vocoeast (forum)
Another song based on the same tuning of the previous one
(88 east) featuring the technique of microtonal vocoding
using a Nord Modular G2 and LMSO (already introduced with
Wyshnegradsky's neutral)
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88east (forum)
A song written using a heptatonic mode of 88cET: a non
octave scale based on the division of a perfect fifth (3/2)
into 8 steps of 88 cents each. This scale has a pseudo
octave 1228 cents wide. The seven steps of the scale have
been mapped to the seven white keys of my master keyboard.
The only sound source is Cameleon 5000 by Camel Audio
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Wyshnegradsky's neutral
(forum)
A
short example of microtonal vocoding using a Nord Modular
G2 and LMSO. The scale is Wyshnegradsky's neutral, a
heptatonic one repeating at the octave with the following
cents from tonic: 0, 200, 350, 500, 700, 850, 1050, 1200
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Alphablues (forum)
A little exercise based on the Carlos Alpha scale: a perfect fifth (3/2)
divided into 9 equal parts of 77.995 cents each
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GamelanX (forum) (blog)
A
"song" using a "gamelan luang, banjar Sèséh" scale, a pelog
tuning from Bali used by Krawang ensembles. Thanks to
X.J.Scott to whom this piece is dedicated (see the final X
at the end of the title)
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Maqam Bayati (JI) (forum) (blog)
Maqam Bayati is a traditional Arabic scale. this version is
a heptatonic scale which repeats every 1200 cents (1
octave). the scale pattern is: 1/1, 12/11, 13/11, 4/3, 3/2,
8/5, 16/9
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Nemovar (forum) (blog)
First section: 12tET Second section: JI (1/1, 16/15, 9/8,
6/5, 5/4 , 4/3, 45/32, 3/2, 8/5, 5/3 , 9/5, 15/8)
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Piano11 (forum) (blog)
A piano song using this scale: (Repeat Ratio: 2:1 - Scale
Pattern: 1/1, 11/10, 9/8, 7/6, 5/4, 11/8, 10/7, 3/2, 8/5,
5/3, 7/4, 20/11) and featuring LMSO's "Dynamic Modulation".
I would like you to pay attention to the bottom staff of
the scrolling score of "Piano 11". That one shows "Dynamic
Modulation", that, as X.J.Scott states in the
LMSO manual:
...enables you to instantly
change the anchor settings of your scale, to move the note
that the tonic note of the scale appears on to a new anchor
key, and to transpose the anchor frequency of the scale
accordingly so that things line up.
See also a high definition movie of the scrolling score or
watch it on YouTube.
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Septimal Klezmer (forum) (blog)
My
first attempt at writing a song using a non-octave tuning
and I think I succeeded in giving it a sense. I will never
praise X.J. Scott enough for his LMSO. The scale is called
"Septimal Heaven" labeled by Jeff as
"entrancing meditative nonoctave"
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Summer 2006 in 11 limit
(forum) (blog)
This piece started as a microtonal study on the same scale
used for Piano11 but on Metasynth 4. The sound I came up with
reminded me of cicadas I had heard during the summer on
the beach here in Italy, so I mixed it with field
recordings I had done during vacation featuring my son
Jarik
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AlgoXenoJazz (forum) (blog)
Well...what you hear here is an experiment involving midi
data being generated by M, sent to LMSO that retune
them, then forwarded to Reason that plays them and finally
recorded on Logic Pro thru Soundflower (no ReWire). All in real
time! The scale used is "septimal heaven" I already used
for my other piece "Septimal Klezmer" but the outcome is very
different. See also the movie (a short video of myself
improvising with M-LMSO-Reason using the same settings
of the song). This movie is on YouTube too.
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Instant Gamelan (forum) (blog)
A
short example of a max/msp patch I built to create scales
that divide any interval in any number of equal steps and
that, at the same time, creates a timbre with consonant
partials (somehow proportional to the steps of the scale it
is playing). I use additive synthesis with only 8 partials.
this example was created dividing a 12th (an octave, 1200
cents, + a perfect fifth, 701.955 cents) into 12 steps
(1901.955 cents/12=158.49 cents each step)
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Metashakti (forum) (blog)
This piece was composed using Metasynth 4 and Absynth2.
both retuned with LMSO to a scale built dividing a perfect
fifth (3/2 or 701.955 cents)) into 6 equal parts (steps of
116.99 cents each). that's a nonoctave scale
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Dorian Schlesinger (forum)
An
experiment on a scale I derived from a 13-limit extended
tonality diamond, based on the studies, by Kathleen
Schlesinger on the tuning systems used in ancient Greece
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Repetitions1 (forum)
The tuning of this piece is based on steps of 175.489 cents
each, dividing a just perfect fifth (3/2) into 4 equal
steps. It is a non octave scale. The mood is repetitious
and exotic. See also the movie. This video is also featured on
the Propellerhead YouTube channel
on the Playlist:
Made with Reason
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MetaSynthVideo 1 (forum)
A live
improvisation with Metasynth Pro 4 captured with Snapz Pro
X and edited with iMovie
Watch it on YouTube
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