Created a video for the entire album to drone on for about 50 minutes, no interruptions. Super spacey, tons of tones, ethereal and dissonant vibes.
Or, just enjoy the visuals and listen to whatever you like ðŸ«
A quick blurb about each track with video playback start times:
Count Pogson’s Court 0:00
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 3:18
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 6:18
Generative composition with oscillators clashing in randomized microintervals
Gravitational Slingshot 8:26
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 11:48
Performed live in 80-EDO (Mercury [Hg] is atomic number 80).
Sawyers and Preppers 15:24
Intentionally dissonant randomized polymicrotonal dyads (36-EDO * 24-EDO * 12-EDO FM)
Fundamental Pi Freq 18:44
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 21:57
The Planetary Hours cycle algorithmically composed in 7-EDO. 7-EDO because there are seven planets and seven days of the week.
SQRT 1200 25:19
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 26:43
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 29:58
An intentionally harsh generative chord collage featuring a harmonic segment tuning system with fundamental frequency 13 Hz.
On the Midnight Barque 31:18
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 35:08
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 38:32
An anxious, noisy sketch with randomized Hz intervals constrained to be no more than the Gamma frequency range.
Trig Bender 40:51
Experimenting with a three-way polymicrotonal tuning temperament based upon the Sine and Cosine function and their Arithmetic Mean.
Shrunken Whalers 44:16
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.
