13 Miles
01 May 2012 Filed in: Music
Listen to 13 Miles
Lately I have noticed an increasing interest of the microtonal community for 13ED2 (Equal Division of ratio 2:1 into 13 steps of 92.308 cents each) so, out of curiosity, I decided to try it out myself.
I had always thought it had to sound awful (or at least extremely xenharmonic) considering its very high “harmonic error” but once I tried it out I had to reconsider it.
I had no particular difficulty assembling this piece and actually it developed smoothly. In order to use the scale with my Halberstadt keyboard I decided to skip one step to fit the scale into the usual 5 black and 7 white keys note layout.
This piece features sounds by Omnisphere, Alchemy and Stylus RMX.
The title alludes to 13ED2 and to the use of a trumpet sound as main instrument, for which I tried to replicate slight intonational nuances, characteristic of the acoustic instrument, through pitch bend.
Links:
http://www.seraph.it/dep/pic/13MilesA.jpg
http://www.seraph.it/dep/pic/13MilesB.jpg
http://www.seraph.it/dep/pic/13MilesC.jpg
http://www.seraph.it/dep/pic/13MilesD.jpg