This music is generated from a single-octave 13-note dissonant interval scale. The structure is an ascending arpeggio spanning three octaves with all notes randomized within their dedicated octave. The thirteen notes of the scale were determined by using the Plomp-Levelt / Sethares sensory roughness model. Mathematically speaking, they are the ‘most dissonant’ frequency intervals for…
I became inspired to create something using the MOST dissonant intervals. Using the Plomp and Levelt model to create a single-octave dissonance curve, I notated points where the slope was zero (visually, these are the peaks). The points were then sorted by dissonance value to find the five most-dissonant intervals. By including the root, a…
Non-octave equal step tuning based upon the synodic orbital period of the Moon. The synodic lunar month is the number of days between New Moon cycles, approximately 29.531 days. This is different from the approximate 27.323 days the Moon takes to orbit the Earth. Composed on a standard MIDI keyboard with VST synths scripted to…
