It's nice to have the tunings in the album jacket. Tuning my keyboard and playing along (or jamming/improv) to some of these is a thing. It's a really helpful way to get to know a tuning, and to learn how to come up with interesting tunings.
1 year ago | 19
I like knowing the tunings. Seeing tuning information was an integral part of what got me embarking down the rabbit hole of microtonal music initially. I probably wouldn't be in this comment section without it. It helps this music spread, but more importantly, helps listeners understand the nuances of microtonality that aren't readily apparent without this info.
1 year ago (edited) | 6
Not knowing the tuning info gave me Big Sway brainrot Please make the tunings public at some point, I need to know if I'm right
1 year ago | 8
I couldn't care less, all I know is that big sway was FIRE (but please do tell me the tunings)
1 year ago (edited) | 3
While I do personally think that not knowing the tunings isn't that impactful to the enjoyment of the music, I also think it can cause some issues. For starters, say someone is really inspired by one of these songs and likes the tuning so much that they want to try the same tuning in their own music. In this case they wouldn't be able to do such a thing and would instead have to make an educated guess. For the same reason, making tuning info private prevents people from playing along while they listen, which is very different from your past releases in which you've provided a scaleworkshop link in your song descriptions and encouraged people to play along. Furthermore, making tuning info private causes problems for xenwiki documentation, where listing tunings of various xen music is very prevalent. I don't mind that you haven't made the tuning info public, and like I said it doesn't really impact the enjoyment of the music for me personally, but I just wanted to give my thoughts on the ramifications of doing this 🙂
1 year ago | 11
(Youtube has poor habit of not notifying people about community posts on subscribed channels, huh. If not for a mention in your recent video, I’d skip this entirely!) The second option. My feeling of the music doesn’t change either way, but in case I’d want to play in tune with a track, the tuning info is nice to have eventually. Or as a bump to go explore that particular tuning, having heard what it allows to do. Knowing tunings used in a track is like knowing other tidbits about its composition—I think there’d always be people who would find this or that very interesting. Having read your post about nontraditional intonation right now, I now think also that’s why having tuning info looks like such a good idea: for traditional intonation, there are major chances that the listener (immersed in the appropriate tradition) would be able to identify the tuning themselves in short time, or something like that. 🤔🤔
1 year ago (edited) | 1
The nerd in me enjoys the tuning tech but also it's not a big deal, the music speaks for itself
1 year ago | 4
I realize I may well be the only one with my opinion (if only 12 people, including me, have answered so far), but a part of my joy in listening to microtonal music is knowing that it approximates just intervals (or if the timbre is not harmonic then whatever makes the partials coincide) better than 12edo (with harmonic timbre). I sort the microtonal music I like into playlists according to the tuning used and I try to listen more to the JI playlist and the playlists for tuning systems that are close to JI and less to ones that have miscellaneous bad or unknown tunings or small EDOs, while there are some tunings like 24edo which is rarely if ever used well IMO and 17edo which just gives me headaches every time I listen to it, which I avoid completely, and alongside each playlist I have a text file when I list the tuning used in each track, but I guess I have to put all of this new album (except for Zero Nothings and There Is Something Else) in the misc playlist with "Unknown" in the tunings file for all the tracks, which is quite a shame TBH because I'm sure most of them deserve more than that (I just don't know which and what). I bought this album on bandcamp (to listen to your music offline and to support you, which is also why I waited for yesterday which was a Bandcamp Friday. I also bought the rest of your discography there earlier, except for Ancient Love because it's in 17 and came out after I had already bought your then entire discography) and really hoped the tunings would be in the album notes but no album notes were to be found. I then tried to see if the weird string on bandcamp was some simple mokibake but it seemed to be mostly ASCII characters with a few other unicode symbols that also repeated, it may well be some kind of cipher although I suspect it's just garbage so I didn't look further into it, then I searched in the listening party, where I remembered the tunings were written for Morphable, but no luck there. I also searched for tuning information in the description of the individual tracks on YouTube and didn't find the tuning information but I did found this survey there, so here we go.
1 year ago | 2
I just assumed it was all Colundi tuning, and that's why you didn't admit anything...
1 year ago | 2
Please enjoy my 17 tone Just tempered scale (all in a ratio over 128/256) Best in the key of C for the whole numbers and storing the note ratios as a single byte. But it sounds best to the ear tuned about 220 hz. A depending on the weather. 128 Hz. 256 145 Hz. 290 154 Hz. 308 160 Hz. 320 165 Hz. 330 171 Hz. 342 179 Hz. 358 183 Hz. 366 192 Hz. 384 201 Hz. 402 205 Hz. 410 213 Hz. 426 219 Hz. 438 224 Hz. 448 230 Hz. 460 238 Hz. 476 256 Hz. 512 If you really want the second’s Here you go, at 21 tones all over 512 for the ratios: 256 284 291 307 313 320 329 341 358 366 370 384 398 402 410 427 439 448 455 461 475 484 512 Here is the scale in Hexadecimal The first is the octave the second the tone at that ratio. 0100 256 011C 284 0123 291 0133 307 0139 313 0140 320 0149 329 0155 341 0166 358 016E 366 0172 370 0180 384 018E 398 0192 402 019A 410 01AB 427 01B7 439 01C0 448 01C7 455 01CD 461 01DB 475 01E4 484 0200 for the next octave.
1 year ago | 0
Sevish
The tuning theory info was not made public on the recent Sevish album
1 year ago | [YT] | 39