hey this is amazing and i hope 72 EDO catches on. i feel inspired to study the intervals in this song... last year my girlfriend and I had an experience with the harmonic series that changed our lives... 12 tone has not sounded the same since! 31 EDO is a possibility but 72 seems better for symmetry reasons. Absolutely beautiful. i cannot wait to start playing around with 72 EDO
Dolores, it's always good to be notificated that you uploaded a new video! Your research and your music is just amazing! It just opened new possibilities to me, as I could met new beauties from the polychromatic music! Thank you so much!! :)
I've been listening to Sevish and exploring microtonal music. I must say that you and he are really wonderful examples of what can really be done with stepping outside of the chromatic scale. Your styles are so soothing and mystical. Ever plan on adding a bassline and a driving melody? I think that will be a challenge for me personally. So much more to learn, in one sense.
I am so curious how the 'dance music' will sound like in the future, what will people dance to in let's say 20-30 years time... something I've been thinking for years. The concept of polychromatic is truly revolutionary and I could see it as a musical norm in the future. So interested in how would you approach your compositions with a more 'mainstream' appeal, for people that are so used to the traditional 12-scale system. Very curious. Love your work!
For me there seems to be a particularly charming unease about the sound. Definitely not a bad thing but absolutely unique. It's like Karen Carpenters voice - very beautiful but eerie all the while. Interesting controller too!
Really enjoyed it. I'd love to hear some of your music with simpler synth sounds/waveforms and less delay/reverb/chorus, to really get a feel for those interesting dissonances/consonances. I'm not sure if you have chorus on it but perhaps it's a predelay giving the same outcome as chorus. Thanks for uploading, your music is very inspiring.
HELLO FROM IRAQ I LIKE YOUR VIDEOS A LOT. THEY'RE DIFFERENT AND AMAZING AT THE SAME TIME SPECIALLY THIS A GREAT INSTRUMENT BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE NOTATION OF IT. ALL THE BEST
I use polychromatic notation which is a colored chromatic notation. The micro-pitch coloring scheme goes from flat-ish (red) toward sharp-ish (violet) for each chromatic macro-pitch. This keyboard has 72 notes per octave which are color coded in this way (r,o,y,g,b,v). The notes on the keyboard are marked with colored stickers.
Hey Dolores! I just wanted to say thank you for uploading all of these videos. You're my proudest TH-cam find of all time. I was thinking about composing polychromatic music in a DAW. Does anyone know if it's possible? Thanks again and never stop uploading your compositions! Merry Christmas :-)
I highly recommend the Xenharmonic Alliance facebook group to find out more about options and approaches toward composing within a DAW/software context. My approach comes primarily from my practice with new instrument designs. I am not well versed in the immense possibilities available with the development of software-based expertise. The group is diverse and inspiring!
Is there a way you could have a piano built that would be able to accomplish the same thing? The tones, textures and timbres seem to play to the idea of "the future," or at least a 70s-80s concept of it. The "acoustic" and "traditional" familiarty of the piano might help unlock some of the possibilities and communication in what you are doing to a broader bunch of ears and minds. Maybe it's a compromise, but, so? Plus, it would sound obliterating and reconfiguring!
@@mykhedelic6471 I think you could use the midi output from this thing to play a piano in some kind of software. There are some really good piano vsts out there
Making an acoustic piano with this many notes per octave would be quite a feat, the traditional 12 tone keyboard layout is all in a single row so can be connected relatively easily to a single row of hammers striking a single row of strings...... The stringing and hammers would be incredibly complex and the strain on the structure of the instrument from the sheer number of strings would be immense. The closest thing I'm aware of is Nicola Vicentino's 'Archicembalo', a harpsichord with about half the notes per octave available on this midi controller. Essentially the design is like having two conventional keyboards one immediately above the other, looks pretty difficult to play. There are a couple of videos of a reconstruction being played on TH-cam
I use polychromatic notation which is standard notation with colored chromatic notes. The coloring scheme goes from flat-ish (red) toward sharp-ish (violet) for each chromatic pitch. This keyboard has 72 notes per octave which are color coded in this way. The notes on the keyboard are marked with colored stickers.
Ah makes sense. i feel it very colorful. i get bored with digital synth, compared to analog days instrument flicker, even we don't care of other instruments which don''t have absolute pitch
If possible could you play a normal music like classic or standard with it? Each time I watch someone to play these instrument they play like you do, a lot of notes but not a real music
Beautiful. I was listening to this while grocery shopping and found my self just standing in the aisle listening to the music.
Sir?
sir?
oh sorry ma'am I was just listening to a polychromatic composition...
....
Beautiful as usual, one more piece of music that proves the where music should evolve, to a deeper level of colors and timbres.
hey this is amazing and i hope 72 EDO catches on. i feel inspired to study the intervals in this song... last year my girlfriend and I had an experience with the harmonic series that changed our lives... 12 tone has not sounded the same since! 31 EDO is a possibility but 72 seems better for symmetry reasons. Absolutely beautiful. i cannot wait to start playing around with 72 EDO
gotta let gang know I fw this MAJOR!!!
1:05 I love that sudden Lydian quality
Dolores, it's always good to be notificated that you uploaded a new video! Your research and your music is just amazing! It just opened new possibilities to me, as I could met new beauties from the polychromatic music! Thank you so much!! :)
i've listened to this so many times since discovering it half a year ago. i never get tired of it
Incredible!
Every time I get a notification from you it makes me so happy
I've been listening to Sevish and exploring microtonal music. I must say that you and he are really wonderful examples of what can really be done with stepping outside of the chromatic scale.
Your styles are so soothing and mystical. Ever plan on adding a bassline and a driving melody? I think that will be a challenge for me personally. So much more to learn, in one sense.
Queen!! I love your work. You're an inspiration and I want to pursue my original dream of composing my own music!
This music changes how I listen, so it is speaking to me on a new level. Mesmerizing.
I am traveling through the universe listening this piece! Thanks for sharing.
This music helps me focus!
This is your best microtonal composition yet, Dolores!
being a singer myself, I'd love there to be a song I could sing using this system
Always love your work! This certainly deserves more attention.
That’s the best Christmas tune ever!
I am so curious how the 'dance music' will sound like in the future, what will people dance to in let's say 20-30 years time... something I've been thinking for years. The concept of polychromatic is truly revolutionary and I could see it as a musical norm in the future. So interested in how would you approach your compositions with a more 'mainstream' appeal, for people that are so used to the traditional 12-scale system. Very curious. Love your work!
You should check out the channel Sevish. He makes microtonal EDM.
Absolutely brilliant. So transportive.
captivating as always. thank you for sharing your beautiful craft with us.
great! thanks for your music
Beautiful...
1:35 ; most beautiful musical resolution I have ever heard
Tienes tu fan #1 en México, gracias por abrir mis horizontes :)
hey, ese soy yo! >:( jaja nah, aquí otro fan de México igual :D
Yo soy su verdadero Fan # 1,si no estan de acuerdo, esto lo arreglamos como cabelleros en un duelo.
recomienden algo, no? aun que no sea microtonal :)
this is so incredible
Very cool performance :-)
Amazing as always
username checks........actually nevermind, i don't know what it could possibly signify
For me there seems to be a particularly charming unease about the sound. Definitely not a bad thing but absolutely unique. It's like Karen Carpenters voice - very beautiful but eerie all the while. Interesting controller too!
Really enjoyed it. I'd love to hear some of your music with simpler synth sounds/waveforms and less delay/reverb/chorus, to really get a feel for those interesting dissonances/consonances. I'm not sure if you have chorus on it but perhaps it's a predelay giving the same outcome as chorus. Thanks for uploading, your music is very inspiring.
It's actually the dissonances that are causing the chorus like effect. A chorus slightly detunes, so it's not surprising that it sounds alike.
@@WesleyUden Aah, amazing! I suspected that but thought it sounded like an effect.
became one with my couch to this
HELLO FROM IRAQ
I LIKE YOUR VIDEOS A LOT. THEY'RE DIFFERENT AND AMAZING AT THE SAME TIME SPECIALLY THIS A GREAT INSTRUMENT BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE NOTATION OF IT.
ALL THE BEST
I use polychromatic notation which is a colored chromatic notation. The micro-pitch coloring scheme goes from flat-ish (red) toward sharp-ish (violet) for each chromatic macro-pitch. This keyboard has 72 notes per octave which are color coded in this way (r,o,y,g,b,v). The notes on the keyboard are marked with colored stickers.
Hey Dolores! I just wanted to say thank you for uploading all of these videos. You're my proudest TH-cam find of all time. I was thinking about composing polychromatic music in a DAW. Does anyone know if it's possible?
Thanks again and never stop uploading your compositions! Merry Christmas :-)
I highly recommend the Xenharmonic Alliance facebook group to find out more about options and approaches toward composing within a DAW/software context. My approach comes primarily from my practice with new instrument designs. I am not well versed in the immense possibilities available with the development of software-based expertise. The group is diverse and inspiring!
Some of the chords sound like Jean Luc Ponty.
Where can you buy/how do you make those things?
www.starrlabs.com/product/microzone-u648/
Ian Dilick thanks!
its as expensive as a small second hand car oO
Thank you for being unafraid to say what you see, even if you need to nine the bathtub.
You're back!!!
I want to be your student and learn everything!!!!
Do you have a Spotify?
Is there a way you could have a piano built that would be able to accomplish the same thing? The tones, textures and timbres seem to play to the idea of "the future," or at least a 70s-80s concept of it. The "acoustic" and "traditional" familiarty of the piano might help unlock some of the possibilities and communication in what you are doing to a broader bunch of ears and minds. Maybe it's a compromise, but, so? Plus, it would sound obliterating and reconfiguring!
Or even choral, ms. Ligeti...
@@mykhedelic6471 I think you could use the midi output from this thing to play a piano in some kind of software. There are some really good piano vsts out there
imho, broader = worse, generally. not always, though. i neither seek it out nor go far to avoid it.
im not sure if this keyboard thing is velocity sensitive though
Making an acoustic piano with this many notes per octave would be quite a feat, the traditional 12 tone keyboard layout is all in a single row so can be connected relatively easily to a single row of hammers striking a single row of strings......
The stringing and hammers would be incredibly complex and the strain on the structure of the instrument from the sheer number of strings would be immense.
The closest thing I'm aware of is Nicola Vicentino's 'Archicembalo', a harpsichord with about half the notes per octave available on this midi controller. Essentially the design is like having two conventional keyboards one immediately above the other, looks pretty difficult to play. There are a couple of videos of a reconstruction being played on TH-cam
This sound so extraterrestrial, why it not appeared at some episode of Star Trek.
Would love to do a collab with you
How is this notated?
I use polychromatic notation which is standard notation with colored chromatic notes. The coloring scheme goes from flat-ish (red) toward sharp-ish (violet) for each chromatic pitch. This keyboard has 72 notes per octave which are color coded in this way. The notes on the keyboard are marked with colored stickers.
0:23
Ah makes sense. i feel it very colorful. i get bored with digital synth, compared to analog days instrument flicker, even we don't care of other instruments which don''t have absolute pitch
've heard musicians who graduated art school didn't like tempo synced delay. no sync delay makes random moire
Still better than Martin Garrix
If possible could you play a normal music like classic or standard with it? Each time I watch someone to play these instrument they play like you do, a lot of notes but not a real music