#microtonal "Diesis" Some of you might remember the early sketch from the ladder progression stream with Sevish. - benyamind.band... open.spotify.c... / benyamind / benyamind
This is probably the best example I've ever heard of showcasing the new colors and emotional capabilities of 31-tet as opposed to 12. The color and tension in this progression just....gives me such chills with each rise and fall. Each resolution. Pure is the best word I could use to describe the sound. Could easily imagine this in a film score.
I appreciate it. I'm glad it captures a cinematic effect. For me making music is a very visual process too. Making tracks often feels like tuning into different worlds. So yeah, it definitely can result into filmscore-esque soundscapes.
One could argue that comfort is detrimental to all art. I am often very intimidated by the music of others, but I think it's necessary tension for me to keep pushing my own boundaries. Music-making often feels like a pendulum between the extremes of self-doubt and confidence. Thanks for listening!
It'd be cool to hear a version with just standard strings or something so we could hear the notes better. It's so washed out with all the reverb the uniqueness of the tuning and massive chords is hard to appreciate fully.
Sound like an old sci-fi movie. This also makes me think of those "scale of the universe" videos where you progressively zoom out from the size of an atom to the entire observable universe. If each measure means a tenfold increase of scale, the duration perfectly matches one required for zooming from a proton until the universe starts to appear uniform at largest scales (then we can get where we started from, a uniform cloud of matter). The piece can induce awe, surprise and existential dread.
I was recently talking to a buddy about Annihilation. I am not quickly impressed by movies but that one stood out to me, I need to watch it again. I re-listened to the whole soundtrack, I agree, great stuff.
@@benyamind yeah it's time i revisit that movie again. You ever here the Hereditary ost by Colin Stetson? Or any of Colin's work in the last 5 years. Might fascinate you. His thing is more extended technique and texture than additional tones, but figured I'd throw it out there! Cheers
Wow, this is insane! I'm in awe at the rich soundscape you've created, it's unlike anything I've ever heard before! Edit: the chord progression from 3:18 is my favourite one so far, it's so sinister and ominous.
When I was 4 poker face struck fear into my heart cause I was fairly new to music and hearing a medium I’d never heard before. Somehow this is giving me the same feeling 13 years later, but with uneasy excitement added as a bonus. Absolutely incredible work here :D Little bit of a rant here: After a lot of pondering, I reckon we as westerners are trying our best to copy/paste 12 tone ideas that have been incredibly well developed over ages, but I think this kind of experimentation is the route we should be going down. Just sitting with this new tuning, expressing and innovating, and seeing where stuff goes :0 I wonder if someday we’ll all adjust to different tunings between songs like we do with different genres! And then some time decades or centuries from now we’ll have “the rules” for all kinds of tunings
Most of it is from Kontakt. Its factory library and also from the Ethno World 6 library. I stack quite a few pads in this piece to obtain power but also to get a lot of details in the appearance of the sound. There are also automations going on to open up the sensation. Thank you!
@@benyamind nice method. Ethnoword is a classic, recently I installed Mysteria which has automations built in and great chorales but it has issues with microtuning it seems 😑
How do you even come up wqith something as nice as this? How long have you been composing microtonal stuff ? Do you have any videos to help us start learning how to do it too?
Glad you enjoy it. I've been making microtonal music for a good 5 years now (time flies). I guess the key things in music are passion, effort and time.. As I am so passionate about it I keep investing time into at. At some point you get to this point where a lot of stuff becomes intuitive rather than a conscious process. So right here you could view this as a very complicated web of chords. But realistically, I just closely listen to a chord by itself, then how it relates to the chords it connects to, and then how it sounds in the bigger pictures. Also, these chords all started out rather simple, and then get more dense as I am building. For years I've worked with cluster chords so my ear is used to this process. I try not to overcomplicate it. If I don't feel it's quite right in the moment, I trust myself to hear what's bugging me next day. Taking a break gives you a fresh ear. I feel like a lot of (theory/production) stuff in music can be overwhelming, but in the end music comes from your inner. So trust your creative being and just keep going. You should hear my first beats from more than a decade ago lol! Here's a video I made on how to microtune in Kontakt: th-cam.com/video/DcWtlF2uJSY/w-d-xo.html And a video where I introduce you to 17-tone equal temperament: th-cam.com/video/LiMrUBo3qeQ/w-d-xo.html Thanks for your interest!
I didn't even notice this was you when I first watched this, I love your music! "Scale of 'Nar" is probably my favorite song right now, period. I want to try and recreate it with acoustic instruments and a small choir, at some point.
This is the sort of soundtrack you imagine hearing in a Minecraft End dimension update
This is so suitable for an alien movie .. love it
this sounds so... mystical
Very nice! I could see this working very well in a movie/game sequence about discovering remnants of an alien civilization
This is the vibe!
Yup, Makes me think of Annihilation, which had a fantastic soundtrack
Definitely got alien/mytsery/horror/demonic vibes
The emotive breadth of 31tet is stunning. You got me vacillating between eternal bliss and agonizing fear
Well said.
This is probably the best example I've ever heard of showcasing the new colors and emotional capabilities of 31-tet as opposed to 12. The color and tension in this progression just....gives me such chills with each rise and fall. Each resolution. Pure is the best word I could use to describe the sound. Could easily imagine this in a film score.
I appreciate it. I'm glad it captures a cinematic effect. For me making music is a very visual process too. Making tracks often feels like tuning into different worlds. So yeah, it definitely can result into filmscore-esque soundscapes.
That chord at 1:11 is so beautiful
I love the next chord
daaaamn, and here i am, trying to make dark ambient with only one chord. this is terrifying and i mean in the best way
One could argue that comfort is detrimental to all art. I am often very intimidated by the music of others, but I think it's necessary tension for me to keep pushing my own boundaries. Music-making often feels like a pendulum between the extremes of self-doubt and confidence.
Thanks for listening!
@@benyamind nice and wise words ☺️
I gotta know what VST this is, it's absolutely haunting in its beauty, and the 31 progression truly sells the vibe. Absolutely astounding!
Thank you. It's done with the VST Kontakt. I stack a bunch of sounds to obtain the big sound you hear here.
It's like hearing music for the first time
This is fantastic, what a great progression, so earthy and yet somehow extra-terrestrial! ;)
🙌
go to 0:44 and keep hitting the right arrow
So cool that it almost perfectly goes through all the chords!
This is one of my favourites so far. I love the progression idea, it's like tuning between radiostations on planet bizzaro.
This should be the real Dune soundtrack. Hans is too lame. It does not make sense to use 12TET in SF movies in future.
That was so fun tysm
Nice harmonization of that chromatic scale, nice ambiance, cool stuff.
This is intense and ethereal and beautiful and otherworldly all in one. I am in awe. (genuine)
I'm glad it evokes these sensations! Thank you for sharing.
This piece would have been killer if it had been the theme to the Forerunner relics, like the Ark.
I have a new obsession.
Show me what you got
Sounds like a soundtrack for an arthouse science fiction horror. Very good.
I also love how the bassline slowly starts rising
The idea was to have that bassline slowly go through that upward motion and then arrange a whole progression around that!
It'd be cool to hear a version with just standard strings or something so we could hear the notes better. It's so washed out with all the reverb the uniqueness of the tuning and massive chords is hard to appreciate fully.
I understand your sentiment. I was going for a big spatial sensation but you do sacrifice in terms of clarity.
Sounds like the music that you would expect to see all the wonders of the universe revealed to.
Sound like an old sci-fi movie. This also makes me think of those "scale of the universe" videos where you progressively zoom out from the size of an atom to the entire observable universe. If each measure means a tenfold increase of scale, the duration perfectly matches one required for zooming from a proton until the universe starts to appear uniform at largest scales (then we can get where we started from, a uniform cloud of matter). The piece can induce awe, surprise and existential dread.
👍i LoVe !
💙⚪❤
Synth & preset?
this made me feel both awe and fear at the same time, absolutely spectacular
Makes me think of Annihilation, which had a fantastic soundtrack
I was recently talking to a buddy about Annihilation. I am not quickly impressed by movies but that one stood out to me, I need to watch it again. I re-listened to the whole soundtrack, I agree, great stuff.
@@benyamind yeah it's time i revisit that movie again. You ever here the Hereditary ost by Colin Stetson? Or any of Colin's work in the last 5 years. Might fascinate you. His thing is more extended technique and texture than additional tones, but figured I'd throw it out there! Cheers
holy shit... where am I... what is this... how is this...
I want to shit my pants watching a scene of an indie japanese horror movie with this as a soundtrack
Video or it didn't happen
Wow, this is insane! I'm in awe at the rich soundscape you've created, it's unlike anything I've ever heard before!
Edit: the chord progression from 3:18 is my favourite one so far, it's so sinister and ominous.
I appreciate it!
everything reminds me of ENA
Help me! I'm trapped in a YT algorithm loop where I get recommended only 31TET music and I totally love it (even though it sounds horrific!)
You'll be aight buddy 💪
Some of those chords hit hard, dude, @1:00, @1:25, @3:08, 3:14, 3:18. Yes I love the more consonant ones.
this is really amazing dude!
Reminds me of Steve Roach.
I LOVE HOW IT SOUNDS EVIL IN SOME CHORDS BUT THEN THAT TENSION GETS RELEASED IN SOME AREAS SO COOL!!!!
Journey to the Centre of the Mind
Nice hehe
3:11 what is going on lol
if I wanted to create music like this, could I do it just by placing notes randomly until I like it? because music theory is really confusing looking
I'd say theory is just a consequence, so yes, go for it!
Sounds like ps2 startup sound
Spunds rad!
Can I have link to the stream with sevish you mentioned in the description?
Thank you! The stream was an in the moment thing, it's not online.
bro... this is so epic. immediately subscribed
I appreciate it!
is this what he_ll sounds like?
Wow
Oh boy this is madness.... I love this.
This is crazy! How was this done on FL studio??!
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Synth?
what software please?
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cool sounds. i like the piano roll background too
5/5
Feels (sounds) like Zelda.
Zelda on shrooms
damn that's very nice.
SOMEBODY PLEASE SLAP A BREAKCORE BEAT ON THIS
There's gonna be a dnb version on my upcoming album.
reminds me of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. good stuff!
When I was 4 poker face struck fear into my heart cause I was fairly new to music and hearing a medium I’d never heard before. Somehow this is giving me the same feeling 13 years later, but with uneasy excitement added as a bonus. Absolutely incredible work here :D
Little bit of a rant here: After a lot of pondering, I reckon we as westerners are trying our best to copy/paste 12 tone ideas that have been incredibly well developed over ages, but I think this kind of experimentation is the route we should be going down. Just sitting with this new tuning, expressing and innovating, and seeing where stuff goes :0 I wonder if someday we’ll all adjust to different tunings between songs like we do with different genres! And then some time decades or centuries from now we’ll have “the rules” for all kinds of tunings
This might be the greatest thing ive ever heard
Bless
I remember watching you work on this! Super cool to see how it turned out, it sounds awesome.
more
Why the first 30 seconds were like SpongeBob's opening but 800% slower?
how are you doing this?
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Very good!
Hey, sir, you just reminded me Max Corbacho
otherwordly and amazing! May I ask what are the plugins used? (especially for the choral)
Most of it is from Kontakt. Its factory library and also from the Ethno World 6 library. I stack quite a few pads in this piece to obtain power but also to get a lot of details in the appearance of the sound. There are also automations going on to open up the sensation.
Thank you!
@@benyamind nice method. Ethnoword is a classic, recently I installed Mysteria which has automations built in and great chorales but it has issues with microtuning it seems 😑
GOOD GRAVY THAT'S MAJESTIC!! GOOD JOB!!!
damn bro make sumn ambient dnb rn im all for it
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Noice
would be good if it was less muddy.
Might work on a brighter, crispier version. This one is indeed really faded.
There's gonna be a more balanced dnb version of this one on my upcoming album. Little easter egg for people scrolling by.
Very Voices-of-the-Void-ey
How do you even come up wqith something as nice as this? How long have you been composing microtonal stuff ? Do you have any videos to help us start learning how to do it too?
Glad you enjoy it. I've been making microtonal music for a good 5 years now (time flies). I guess the key things in music are passion, effort and time.. As I am so passionate about it I keep investing time into at. At some point you get to this point where a lot of stuff becomes intuitive rather than a conscious process.
So right here you could view this as a very complicated web of chords. But realistically, I just closely listen to a chord by itself, then how it relates to the chords it connects to, and then how it sounds in the bigger pictures. Also, these chords all started out rather simple, and then get more dense as I am building. For years I've worked with cluster chords so my ear is used to this process. I try not to overcomplicate it. If I don't feel it's quite right in the moment, I trust myself to hear what's bugging me next day. Taking a break gives you a fresh ear.
I feel like a lot of (theory/production) stuff in music can be overwhelming, but in the end music comes from your inner. So trust your creative being and just keep going. You should hear my first beats from more than a decade ago lol!
Here's a video I made on how to microtune in Kontakt:
th-cam.com/video/DcWtlF2uJSY/w-d-xo.html
And a video where I introduce you to 17-tone equal temperament:
th-cam.com/video/LiMrUBo3qeQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for your interest!
What is the workflow to reproduce xenscales in FL Studio?
I mostly work with the VST Kontakt. Here's a tutorial I made on how to microtune in Kontakt: th-cam.com/video/DcWtlF2uJSY/w-d-xo.html
dude how the hell do you do this
how do you set up 31 TET in a DAW? I've been trying to figure it out for days
I mostly use the VST Kontakt to go microtonal. Here's a guide I made on how to microtune in Kontakt: th-cam.com/video/DcWtlF2uJSY/w-d-xo.html
Oh my goodness, this is just so crushingly awesome.
Thank you!
holy shit
Can you do a lil how to video for microtonal stuff in FL studio? I imagine there are a few ways of doing it, curious what you did here
This is my main method: th-cam.com/video/DcWtlF2uJSY/w-d-xo.html
Beautiful!!!!!!!
Balm for the ears. 🧶
this is the coolest thing
Great!
MIDI file por favor
This made me feel.
Ladder progression!
That is awesome
BREATHTAKING
Yóu're breathtaking! - Keanu Reeves
How did you do this?
I meant how did you get 31 tone equal temperament in fl
Most of the times I use the external VST Kontakt. Here's a guide: th-cam.com/video/DcWtlF2uJSY/w-d-xo.html
I didn't even notice this was you when I first watched this, I love your music! "Scale of 'Nar" is probably my favorite song right now, period. I want to try and recreate it with acoustic instruments and a small choir, at some point.
I'm glad you enjoy the music! Making Scale of 'Nar was a transcendent experience.
Which computer program are you using?
FL Studio
niceeee