Any comfy microtonal music out there?

[Tyler Brown]

any comfy microtonal music out there?

vid related
youtube.com/watch?v=IPMETWcAwKA

[Mason Ortiz]

Well, RDJ just released a whole track done with Korg Gear.

youtube.com/watch?v=hUT01p-C2xo

He helped them make their latest synthesizer, The Monologue, and one of the features he insisted on was microtuning.

Really cool interview about it:
factmag.com/2017/07/11/aphex-twin-tatsuya-takahashi-interview/

[Aiden Myers]

>microtonal music
Sounds neckbeardy.

[Grayson Ross]

thanks, yeah. read the interview which was cool and I'm familiar with RDJ's microtonal work already. I was hoping to hear some other stuff from other artists using a range of different instruments that sounds good.

[Brody Clark]

thanks predictable humor nothing to contribute guy

[Jacob Cruz]

Sorry, yeah I had a hunch that you were bringing it up because of the recent interview.

I honestly don't know any other artists who rely on microtuning. Perhaps Autechre?

[Jacob Edwards]

here's some old music from the japanese duo Syzygys
youtube.com/watch?v=Pq51rzmD2m8

[Levi Allen]

the old-new King Gizzard album
My Bloody Valentine, actually (tremolo arm bends on every chord strummed for slight wavering in and out of the 'right' pitch)
any slide guitar music
almost any non western music (I enjoy bulgarian folk music on occasion)

[Gabriel Williams]

haven't really checked out any king gizzard yet, I'll give it a listen later

[Elijah King]

Do you also believe 432 Hz is life-changing?

[Benjamin Evans]

this is cool thanks user! bump for interest

[Ryan Anderson]

any examples?

[Parker Jenkins]

The thing is, mostly what he's doing is playing slightly with temperament to detune things a little bit. Microtonality typically involves using novel intervals that aren't normally available. It's not really the same thing. I haven't heard a lot from Aphex that really sounds microtonal.

[Caleb Gomez]

if you want microtonal IDM this is what you should be listening to
youtube.com/watch?v=XaruOAMtgdc

>My Bloody Valentine, actually (tremolo arm bends on every chord strummed for slight wavering in and out of the 'right' pitch)
any slide guitar music
Don't equate small pitch bends with microtonality

[Nolan Gutierrez]

It's horseshit that has nothing to do with microtonal music.

[Cooper Peterson]

How about some comfy microtonal pop?

spectropolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/micropangaea

Love this band. Good rec.

[Gabriel Rivera]

There are a few people with good current releases
acreil.bandcamp.com/album/acheiropoietic-ans-tze
sevish.bandcamp.com/

[Daniel Gray]

Giacinto Scelsi
>invented the genre

[Camden Young]

Not really, I don't think you could say anyone invented it. Nicola Vicentino was writing in something close to 31 equal in the 16th century. But really all historic temperaments were significantly different from 12 equal.

youtube.com/watch?v=bhGwjgZ8zIY

[Thomas Flores]

It turns out that Aphex really didn't do anything useful to clarify or promote microtonal music with his recent nonsense...

[James Bailey]

Ben Johnson is great
youtube.com/watch?v=vwQxCi6pSEk

and Easley Blackwood
youtube.com/watch?v=HbuFPpiJL1o

and Wendy Carlos of course but she gets everything taken down

[Jackson Brown]

He doesn't really have to, because it's pointless

[Josiah Allen]

No it's not, you obviously don't know the first thing about it.

[Elijah Morales]

If you consider an IDM producer a valuable contributor to microtonal music, there's nothing to really talk about.

[Jace Garcia]

here are some more good ones
youtube.com/watch?v=J_4zr0Qk6o0
youtube.com/watch?v=9fykOw-VY0o
youtube.com/watch?v=eM3cFodNHws

[Angel Roberts]

What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Jesus Christ you're retarded. Aphex isn't especially well informed about a lot of things, and he's prone to conspiratorial nonsense. That's obvious. But it's not like someone who makes IDM (other than him) wouldn't be in a good position to do this kind of thing. For the most part it's a blind spot in academia.

[Tyler Cox]

>Aphex isn't especially well informed about a lot of things, and he's prone to conspiratorial nonsense.
What are you talking about?

[Liam Myers]

All right, but why aren't other IDM producers who made microtonal music, if there are such, recognized by the academia and why aren't their works analyzed? And what a particular artist personally believes in, may be a factor of not taking them seriously as a person, but that has nothing to do with their music in most cases.

[Lincoln Allen]

The shit he said in the Korg interview for one thing, he's alluding to the 432 Hz meme. I don't think he's ever done anything like microtonal music anyway, he's just detuning his synths some so it sounds weird.

[Aiden Rogers]

>Because he doesn't have a degree in music theory, but was in stead enjoyed by a large amount of people and influenced subsequent popular musicians his contributions to a certain type of music don't matter.

That sounds pretty elitist desu senpai

[Alexander Bell]

>All right, but why aren't other IDM producers who made microtonal music, if there are such, recognized by the academia and why aren't their works analyzed?
It's not generally something that academia cares about. That's not necessary for it to be important. Virtually the entire microtonal community is self taught DIY stuff. You do your own research. That's how it's been almost the entire time. Academics got hung up on 12 equal forever because muh serialism. They're generally not the authorities on the topic.

[Xavier Cooper]

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere he does a lot of detuning notes on samplers to make his own scales.

[Jackson Scott]

That's not even proper elitist, that's just "I'm insecure as fuck and I want to pretend that the ivory tower elite are the sole gatekeepers for all knowledge". i.e. he started college last year and doesn't know anything about anything.

[Christian Barnes]

He certainly does a lot of detuning, but to me it always sounded more or less like random detuning without any novel intervals or anything. And that's fine, and kind of an important part of his sound, he's not Harry Partch or whatever.

[Grayson Taylor]

more microtonal shit on bandcamp:
brendanbyrnes.bandcamp.com/
acreil.bandcamp.com/album/agglomeration-and-homothety
sevish.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-xen
besaxung.bandcamp.com/

[Tyler Murphy]

meant for the first link to be this, sorry
brendanbyrnes.bandcamp.com/album/neutral-paradise

[Benjamin Fisher]

This is a strawman if I ever saw one.

[Caleb Turner]

Who's the authority then? People who sold sold the most records?

[Caleb Morgan]

No, in this case it's the community that develops the theory.

Basically conventional music theory doesn't apply here at all. You have to work out your own terminology, notation and theory, and it has to be semi standard if you want to communicate it with anyone. But largely the people that do this aren't affiliated with academia.

[Camden Morris]

more microtonal shit
youtube.com/watch?v=0akGtDPVRxk
youtube.com/watch?v=d4t5B6nPQGg
youtube.com/watch?v=QpiVphJoL54

[Ethan Brooks]

comfy no -
but check out Harry Partch
and this more unnerving version of his music:

youtube.com/watch?v=4tZamFKyPwM

[Gabriel Gutierrez]

I like these a lot
youtube.com/watch?v=RlTHLPX-Bd8
youtube.com/watch?v=23ImVLezV4c
youtube.com/watch?v=qHHv3mwJTlg
youtube.com/watch?v=oNPCiBY5IZ8
youtube.com/watch?v=_63Cc6vPFVI

[Kevin Cox]

Do people actually listen to this?

[Jayden Hill]

thanks dudes

[Thomas Rogers]

>novel intervals
2/3 of the entire world use microtonal tuning...

[Dominic Bell]

Is that right?

[Lincoln Walker]

youtube.com/watch?v=q2dMSfmUJec

[Juan Powell]

Turkish folk dude
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGANgDZPj8

[Owen Barnes]

youtu.be/Tl4_v0aoB2c polychromatic composition by Dolores Catherino