u/Brief_Eggplant357

Put some long sessions in to fine tune and craft this dense and dark atmospheric microtonal ambient excuse to disassociate and escape everything. There are no beats, just soundscapes and ghostly asmr effects.

Did a silly thing and released it worldwide using Distrokid too 👁️

A small blip about each track's tuning system, techniques, and approach below:

Count Pogson’s Court
Tuning temperament is derived from Pogson’s Ratio, a logarithmic Magnitude scale used to classify the brightness of celestial bodies. Its numerical value is the fifth root of 100, approximately 2.512. Using this value to define the octave ratio results in a non-octave tuning of 9.0309-EDO.

Hermetica Lodge
Audio collage in non-octave 12ed(16/9), which results in 14.457-EDO. 16/9 was chosen because of the screen dimension 16:9.

Bronze Chloridian
Generative composition with oscillators clashing in randomized microintervals  

Gravitational Slingshot
Slow-motion rhythms dictated by Morse code with note selection randomized in 88-EDO (because there are 88 keys for a standard piano).

Mercurial Microtonality
Performed live in 80-EDO (Mercury [Hg] is atomic number 80).

Sawyers and Preppers
Intentionally dissonant randomized polymicrotonal dyads (36-EDO * 24-EDO * 12-EDO FM)

Fundamental Pi Freq
Binaural sine waves with Fundamental Frequency π(Pi), 3.14159 Hz. All available notes for this tuning system are composed from stacked intervals of 3.14159 Hz. Music was produced by randomizing note selection from the π Hz arithmetic equal-interval harmonic segment. 

Planetary Hours Kaleidocycle
The Planetary Hours cycle algorithmically composed in 7-EDO. 7-EDO because there are seven planets and seven days of the week.

SQRT 1200
Taking the square root of 1200 reveals an equally divided octave in which the EDO and cents-per-step share the same numerical value of 34.641. This composition features triads in 34.641-EDO. 

Catenary Cosh
Irregular non-octave tuning system following a Catenary Curve instead of the standard Logarithmic curve. The range was intentionally reduced to exactly four octaves over 49 notes, all with a varied interval ratio following the cosh function.

13 Hurts
An intentionally harsh generative chord collage featuring a harmonic segment tuning system with fundamental frequency 13 Hz.

On the Midnight Barque
A polymicrotonal tuning system experiment with the curve function x^3 and its inverse x^(1/3). Both tuning temperaments are triggered simultaneously by pressing a single note on the keyboard.

Galilean Orbitals
A complex polyrhythm experiment dictated by the orbital periods of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. Each moon was assigned its own octave range to ring a randomized note as the polyrhythm cycles.  

Atonal Underground
An anxious, noisy sketch with randomized Hz intervals constrained to be no more than the Gamma frequency range.

Trig Bender
Experimenting with a three-way polymicrotonal tuning temperament based upon the Sine and Cosine function and their Arithmetic Mean.

Shrunken Whalers
A single chord progression looping through 16 different tuning temperaments.  It begins and ends with 12-EDO. The middle follows a coprime sequence to cycle through 12-EDO (x/16), with x being integers 16 through 32.

(( also, thanks for scrolling this far. I'm crafting a playlist called Ambient Esoterica Familiars if you got anything in this similar vein to add. . . drop it in the replies ))

It uses 88-edo generative (because there are 88 keys on a standard piano).

The sequence is created by converting Morse-Code into a rhythmic pattern.

Dedicated to everyone who dunked on PayPal when it was announced Bandcamp was switching to Stripe.

I still never switched btw. Sharing music is a hobby for me, I don't care if I earn any money from mp3 sales. . . . and I certainly don't want to be filing tax returns and registering as a sole proprietorship FOR A HOBBY.

Sharing to return the favor someone once did me by introducing me to this man. Live microtonal harp music based on the i-Ching.

If you ever have the time and patience, there are several albums from this dude exploring all possibilities of tonality, beating, microtones, spectral, concepts etc.

Helps keep things in perspective just how easy we have it with our VSTs and push-button EDO possibilities.

"The six harps are tuned a 6th tone apart to form a kind of 72-tone-per-octave mega-harp."

If you dig this sorta stuff, also check out Alvin Lucier to further make you feel inadequate.

I've noticed a trend and it's disturbing. For me, I have NEVER, not even once disliked anyone's music on YouTube.

Is there a reason people do that?
Anyone else experience this?

I'll have a video doing well (my channel is well above 98% like-rate after 4 years of continuous output, literally hundreds of original ideas/songs/videos etc.)

Yet, if I post the video here, . . . within a couple hours dislikes begin to appear. Even on videos that had nothing but positive/encouraging comments, all of a sudden BOOM, bombed by dislikes --- Talking about YouTube, not Reddit. I don't care if I get downvoted on Reddit LOL

Request: At least leave a comment explaining how crap my music is, or whatever the problem with it is, if you're going to dislike it and mess up the metrics/algorithm.

* also worth mentioning the last time rogue dislikes appeared, about a week later they were all removed/vanished and the like rate was restored to 100%. Could it all just be bots?

Reason I'm saying this is because the behavior seems to only happen on the videos I share in this sub. No other sub I share-to generates dislikes on YouTube.

Idk, what you feel about downvoting or disliking someone's music? Maybe it's my neurodivergent/trauma wiring, but I cannot fathom a reason to do that. Well, I can think of one reason to that and it's not cool.

I custom modified a Reaktor synth to enable real-time, or automated, changes to the EDO. This is the first go at using it.

The EDO is automated to change every measure following a coprime cycle (whilst playing the same MIDI notes). It features 30 different EDOs ranging from 6EDO to 36EDO.

Instead of chord changes, think of it as a static triad manipulated with EDO changes. . . to create chord changes.

Sorry for being weird and experimental. Just havung fun dorking out here.

Komplete now comes with Absynth 6! The upgrade price for me from 14 was the same price for stand alone Absynth.

As someone who needs microtunable instruments (which you cannot do with the flashy expansion packs/play series content spam) --- dammit, take my money. Absynth is microtunable with scripts!

As someone rarely produces anything in "normal tuning" = = = FINALLY a reason to upgrade.

All the sequencers, phrasing, chords, . expansions, redesign and sillyness for Kontakt 8 still remains of no use to me, but whatever.

Don't worry, I'll still continue to complain about the Kontakt library being locked down with the 'wrench icon' removed from most instruments that used to be unlocked in previous versions.

We received two over the weekend in our mailbox that were for our neighbors down the street, but our own ballots never arrived.

Will we really need to go thru the hassle of voting in-person now because ours didn't arrive in the mail? Hopefully honesty prevails and who ever got our ballots (with all our personal information on them) does not illegally attempt to vote for us (in person or by mail) -- thus voiding our vote.

Also, does anybody know if there will be early in-person locations in Burbank? Because voting in-person ON election day will likely result in me not having the time or energy to bother.