🎼 Microtonal Composition in "Fluid Just Intonation" - Rosie Sheldon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2022
- This piece uses the concept of individually tuning each chord to Just Intonation, but relative to a note from the last chord, creating a fluid Just Intonation that is free from the base of Equal Temperament. This idea is similar to the way that professional choirs intonate with each other and the resulting pitch drifts, but instead in the context of electronic music.
Acknowledgements:
• Adam Neely for his explanation of “Xenharmony” and concept of tuning an accompaniment to Just Intonation around an equally tempered melody. This is the concept I wanted to take further and break free from Equal Temperament entirely.
- “The 7 Levels of Jazz Harmony” - • The 7 Levels of Jazz H...
• Jacob Collier for his use of subtle microtonality in his music, notably his modulation to G half sharp major in “In the Bleak Midwinter” using Just Intonation to pivot to the new tuning centre, and David Bruce for his deconstruction of this.
- “In the Bleak Midwinter” - • Jacob Collier - In the...
- “How to Modulate to G 1/2 Sharp (Jacob Collier-style)” - • How to Modulate to G 1...
• Jacob Collier’s other concepts of how microtonality can be used in music, including microtonal voice leading (by dividing an interval into differently sized equally spaced intervals), explained throughout interviews with June Lee (who has transcribed many of his works).
- “Interview: Jacob Collier (Part 1)” - • Interview: Jacob Colli...
- “Interview: Jacob Collier (Part 2)” - • Interview: Jacob Colli...
- “Interview: Jacob Collier (Part 3)” - • Interview: Jacob Colli...
• Dolores Catherino and her explanation of the concept of Polychromatic Music, using instruments and harmony that transcend the boundaries of 12-tone Equal Temperament, as well as her ideas for how this music can be notated with colour. Her various compositions using these instruments also inspired this composition.
- “What is Polychromatic Music? - An introduction with comparison of modern microtonal instruments.” - • What is Polychromatic ...
- “'Toward the Continuum' - 2nd Iteration, Polychromatic composition by Dolores Catherino” - • 'Toward the Continuum'...
• Sevish for their creation of the website “sevish.com/scaleworkshop” and tutorials on how to use this, which was used to create the tuning files in order to program the Just Intonation ratios for the software instruments. Their microtonal compositions inspired this composition, which use various divisions per octave, and sometimes unconventional time signatures, in the style of modern electronic music.
- “Using Microtones in Electronic Music (microtonal tutorial)” - • Using Microtones in El...
- “Making microtonal scales with Scale Workshop” - • Making microtonal scal...
- “Sevish - Gleam (22-tone microtonal 5/4 beat)” - • Sevish - Gleam (22-ton...
This piece was composed in 2021 for 2nd year of university.
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i like how this isn't just interesting on a technical level, but also genuinely sounds awesome
AND it’s in 7/8?!?!! This is truly a masterpiece 🔥 🔥
amazing. i love the concept of the key gradually rising up by fractions of semitones, really creates a kind of hype that you can't reproduce in 12tet!
your feelings are irrational
@@Fire_Axus every emotion is irrational when we have logic to guide our actions. But without them, music is nothing but organized sounds :)
@@Fire_Axus Adding to Tachy’s words, also emotions really have their own logic, it’s just it can be not what we wanted (or what we thought we wanted!). But given that we often want different incompatible things and don’t have precise formalized plans and knowledge, what else is there to wish? We can, though, get better and better understanding of how our own psyche tends to behave (which changes over time but we can catch up)-including how our emotions are mostly triggered and what they give or take from us-and get advantages.
That’s so very far from the stance stamping emotions as irrational-it’s not helping anyone with anything! Emotions are there whether we want it or not, whether we understand them well or not so well, and they will make us irrational precisely if we don’t want to get to grips with them. Emotions aren’t alien, they aren’t exactly extrinsic to our thought process and they can’t and shouldn’t be ripped out of brain as it is, right now. Maybe in the future-but now we don’t know all what we need to know to safely change our psychic hardware. And now, yes, human brain is suboptimal and was naturally selected in silly ways, but just saying “that’s wrong” isn’t really a single ounce of help to anyone. Especially when emotions in question are actually valid and useful.
Variplaning as coined by Sevish.
@@05degrees An alternative interpretation is that if emotions were music notes, they would be irrational.
You should be very proud of this
Imagine music that wasn't limited by any tonal system and we understood a way to be able to choose any frequency. This is this closest I have seen get to that.
You can, but any music outside the 12 tone scale sounds like farts
@@RalphScott-wu8ei maybe to your basic ears
Leaning into the pitch drift instead of trying to avoid it is the way to go!
Pretty cool stuff, loving the spacey vibes.
0:08 it must be the billionth time I've heard the one to major three progression (all of me, yesterday, etc) but in just intonation it just hits so differently! The tragic quality of it just sings
This gives me shivers, its so In TUNE!
added to my Secret Music playlist
This is phenomenal. A really commercial pop/movie soundtrack vibe while also being experimental. That's an incredible achievement imho.
Fantastic take on microtonal music! Super inspiring
0:47 is AMAZING
You've blown my mind and blown the dust of it.
this is quickly becoming one of my favourite pieces of music, like, in general. i keep coming back to it. i also like your other work, but there's just something about this track that i particularly enjoy
This is a very high compliment thank you! 😁
@@RosieSheldon it sounds like what i think filmmakers 30-40 years ago expected the future to sound like
I hear that lovely theme of #5 using the III chord I think?
Very good
Just learned about just intonation today and then I got this gem in my recommended videos. Absolutely loving learning and hearing microtonality. Very cool love this kind of stuff. :)
I love free just intonation it's my favourite way to write microtonal music! I'm yet to find a good way of writing it though. Funnily enough I wrote a composition in my second year of university for an assignment in this exact same system. I could send it over if you're interested.
Beautiful
very awesome and such
Love the chords, but also the 7/8 feeling haha. How can the modulations be described here? Hard to grasp where it's changing in my mind, even if my ear adjusts very fine.
0:19-0:38 new dimension
My favorite bit as well
bravo
Diverging Just Intonation babyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!------->>>>> ⏩
I think I can help tune some of those chords so they don't diverge like crazy.
🔥I realy like those m7 and maj7 chords with the pivot of the 7th! I have perfect pitch so I realy feel those JI changes in pitch!! 🔥
your feelings are irrational
This music only uses rational numbers though. @@Fire_Axus
All feeling are irrational
I love this! Wish i could find more music like this though…
try sevish. they made some incredible microtonal music
Very impressive and inspiring, thanks!
oh my god this is so good
stunning!!
Wow love it!! Such a cool composition, great work!
This is spectacular
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if space aliens started learning earth instruments
amazing composition! could be used in a space-themed game...
actually... can i use this in a game?
Space elevator!
Haha the microtonalist Elaine walker made an album with that name!
@@TachyBunker cool i'll have to check it out lol! 😸
Is there some kind of mathematical decisionmaking behind the choice of tuning in a given measure? Or do you simply put what sounds good to you? Great piece by the way👏👏
Lovely !
🙏 Please would you tell me how to make those transparent Soundslice scores ?
what software did you use to do this? was it automatic?
That would have been nice! I used Sevish's online scale workshop to create the different scala files, imported them into Plogue's Sforzando plugin and duplicated it many times for each instrument, key and shift in tuning. I put it all together in Logic Pro X. Each time there was a chord shift it had to use a different instance of the plugin with the new tuning, so there were 196 tracks in total! :)
I think there's a new program called pivotuner that does something like this.
@rosiesheldon yeah, id assume, sounds alot like sevish.
How did you make this sheet music so beautiful by the way? What softwares.
Thanks! 😊 I used screenshots from the exported pdf, originally made in Sibelius, then brought them into Final Cut Pro X with a built-in animated background and some colour editing 🥳
@@RosieSheldon i see, thanks!
The just intonation makes this sound so dope. I've been wanting to experiment with fluid just intonation, but the only way I can think of to do that is the cpu intensive way of using a new synth instance per every chord. Is that what you did, or did you figure out a more reasonable way to make the just intonation fluid?
I used a new synth instance for every chord, it was very time consuming. @somatotomy mentioned elsewhere in the comments about a program called Pivotuner which seems to do it automatically. Could be worth looking into :)
@@RosieSheldon Thanks for the tip! Pivotuner seems really promising.
bass at 1:48 tingles my sinuses
you know, i would love to commission a song like this for a game I'm working on? is this a thing you can do?
Hi! If you send me an email with some details I'd definitely be interested! You can find my email address under the about section of my channel :)
How do you do this?
it's 1:21 for me
Sevish much?