Based Microtonal music
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post em, suggest em, appreciate em.
fuck 12TET
oh yeah I forgot, /mu/ is a bunch of normie faggots that can't into unusual music
I've been enjoying Ivan Wyschnegradsky a lot lately. I don't think quartertones are really a fantastic approach to microtonality, but he puts it to good use.
>>53153695
>Ivan Wyschnegradsky
interesting, any pieces or albums you would recommend?
>>53153847
I was listening to this one lately
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxtJ63Xe584
it's actually sixth tones; 36tet, played on 3 pianos
He followed in the footsteps of Scriabin in his approach. I like it as a sort of impressionistic sounding alternative to serialism, etc.
Recs for protein music?
>>53153898
this is great!
have some Ives and Vicentino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izFgt2tZ0Oc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0akGtDPVRxk#t=107
What is microtonal music
>>53153392
Mega link? Nothing in the archive
>>53153392
Is that on youtube yet? I love that album
>>53154055
Wendy keeps sending takedown notices.
>>53153990
hmm not sure where I torrented it from.
you can hear it here though
http://musicmp3.ru/artist_wendy-carlos__album_beauty-in-the-beast.html#.VMc4MWiUdOI
should be able to find a download with some google snooping
>>53153986
technically microtonal means it uses intervals smaller than usual (<100 cents), but more generally it just means music with any alternative temperament that isn't related to 12 equal
the problem is that 12 tone equal temperament is just a compromise; some intervals aren't particularly good, and some very nice sounding intervals aren't available at all
I found a few good examples a while back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fykOw-VY0o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpiVphJoL54
this sevish guy is fairly good
>>53154105
Yeah I found it on kat.ph
I was being lazy tbh
>>53153986
music made with the notes 'in between' the keys of the piano.
western music divides the octave into 12 notes. microtonal music divides the octave into 24 or 48 notes (or more, or other random numbers)
it sounds kind of out of tune and exotic to our ears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYK_PF9WTRE
its also commonly used in middle eastern and turkish music
Syzygys are a cool example of microtones in a more popular form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMfeY_J-_5w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHHv3mwJTlg
>guitar refretted to 22 equal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2amhaiI8TfM
>really wild 19 equal with crap MIDI sound
these are really good...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gxuySP08Is
>microtonal organ and stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM3cFodNHws
>guitar in 17tet
>>53154146
>this sevish guy is fairly good
Like it
>>53153670
avant-teen coming through
these are the last ones I have...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4t5B6nPQGg
>72tet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNPCiBY5IZ8
>22tet (sevish again)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srD-4wfOEGc
>23tet
>>53154535
>implying there's not a serious and noticeable lack of discussion of interesting music here
>>53154590
it's mu what did you expect.. that and O 'Based Microtonal music' P is trying too hard
>>53154614
Not really. Honestly I think microtonality is an essential thing that people should be exploring now. It's been worthwhile territory forever, but not widely done due to the inconvenience. But computers make it practical now.
How 2 get into making microtonal? I thought it would be a waste of time because i thought unfamiliar tunings wouldn't subconsciously conjured up memories, or something.
But aphex twin said he's used it for most of his career and i can hear it now, I always knew there was something different about it.
He says he does his own custom tunings but never 12TET any idea wtf he's talking about
>>53154711
>I thought it would be a waste of time because i thought unfamiliar tunings wouldn't subconsciously conjured up memories, or something.
It's not that hard to get used to it. You just need to listen a lot. It can be hard to play some temperaments on an ordinary keyboard, but you can pick 7 or 12 pitches out of a large temperament and play it more easily that way. Smaller divisions of the octave like 7 or 8 or 9 can force you to do something interesting without having too many notes. It won't sound like anything familiar because the normal intervals aren't there.
>But aphex twin said he's used it for most of his career and i can hear it now, I always knew there was something different about it.
I think he's kinda full of shit. He detunes stuff but I wouldn't call that "microtonal" in any meaningful sense. He's just making things more dissonant. There's nothing really wrong with that, but think the goal of microtonality should be to explore alternative forms of consonance.
