Now and Xen
103 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe podcast about contemporary microtonal and xenharmonic music, launched by Sevish and led by Stephen Weigel.
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080 - Music Discord May
June 03, 2024 12:00 - 2 hours - 337 MBThis huge episode features three vastly different conversations, each with prominent members of a respective microtonal music discord. (1) Xenharmonic Alliance (ground, anomaly, xenoindex, Frédéric Gagné, HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA) Hyperspace Odyssey [21edo] - from Adxenture EP Serendipitous Arrival [26edo] - from Adxenture EP Liminal City Escalators [17edo and/or 18edo] - from Gone Too Deep EP Six Macrotonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media (8 NOTES) Outro/Transition: Into the...
079 - Melopœia
April 10, 2024 15:12 - 52 minutes - 120 MBXenharmonic black metal project Melopœia consists of Brian Leong, Jon Lervold, and Dave Tremblay. Their albums are inspired by J.R.R. Tolkein, and features his direct text both sung, and by mapping the letters of the text to different notes of 26-tone equal temperament. Their latest album utilizing this is “Valaquenta,” be sure to catch the latest track “Varda” which we discuss and play in the episode! Their earlier album, “Ainulindalë,” used the same method of starting the album and then up...
078 - Christopher Otto (JACK quartet)
February 26, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 188 MBChat about contemporary music, composition, and just intonation with us in this theoretically adventurous and wide ranging episode. Christopher Otto, composer and violinist, works with the JACK quartet, a group that has played the music of such individuals as John Zorn, Tristan Perich, Cenk Ergün, Tyshawn Sorey, Catherine Lamb, Georg Frederich Haas, Dan Trueman, and many, many, more. Intro: Christopher Otto (jack quartet) rag’sma Catherine Lamb - divisio spiralis (mvt. II) Beethoven - ...
077 - Noah Jordan
February 12, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 169 MBTake a magical tour with us through some of Noah Dean Jordan’s microtonal instruments (including the requinto), including improvised performances! Be sure to check out the “Noah Dean Jordan” account on Bandcamp as well as the “Nueva Armonica” account! Intro: I Was Once a River (Rock Creek II) Outro: I Was Once a River (Te Quiero Verde) Check out Noah’s work on the requinto: https://noahdeanjordan.bandcamp.com/album/i-was-once-a-river https://nuevaarmonia.bandcamp.com/album/re...
076 - Matthew Sheeran
January 22, 2024 18:07 - 2 hours - 355 MBToday’s episode celebrates the culmination of a years-long project with Matthew Sheeran, widely celebrated composer, orchestrator, and arranger. The album we’ve been working on is called “Acoustic Microtonal,” and it is a recording of Easley Blackwood’s Twelve Microtonal Etudes using acoustic instruments, playing monophonic lines in isolation and then being re-tuned using Melodyne. Matthew commissioned the Budapest Scoring Orchestra to achieve this huge compositional feat. Check out our epis...
075 - Saad Haddad
January 12, 2024 15:10 - 47 minutes - 109 MBIn this episode, we discuss composition and performance with composer Saad Haddad. One prominent topic - the challenges involved working with orchestras and large ensembles playing microtonal music, and logistics of the industry. We also discuss ideas of east vs. west, style infiltration, using minimal sets of pitches, and maqam. Music: Vortex Temporum - Gérard Grisey Vignettes - Saad Haddad Aysheen (demo) - Saad Haddad Outro: Aysheen (demo) - Saad Haddad Saad has his own p...
074 - Sevish and benyamind (Big Sway)
December 18, 2023 14:29 - 1 hour - 239 MBAfter this episode, be sure to check out the new Sevish album, “Big Sway!” Myself, Sevish, and benyamind have a classic microtonal chat about all things fun and intervallic, covering topics such as intuitive tunings, voice manipulation (vocoding, autotuning, etc.), perfectionism, going gridless, expectations, and communication and accessibility within the microtonal community. Several instruments get the spotlight, such as Sevish’s new microtonal keyboards, the Lumatone, melodica, and saxoph...
073 - Brock Benzel
June 30, 2023 14:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBIn this brief but informative chat with Brock Benzel, we explore uncharted territory, with a firm commitment to being true to the self, taking on challenges, putting the music first, and breaking rules just the right way. Enjoy the comfort of alien intervals that Brock brings using the Lumatone keyboard instrument (our big topic). Music [Intro] Paranola (31-TET) - performed by Brock Benzel Something found (31-TET) - facebook excerpt (Brock Benzel) stay hydrated (53-TET) - facebook...
072 - Steve Mueske
June 29, 2023 14:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBAn episode about synth and drums among other tidbits. Topics include names, aliases, Sevish himself, reverberance, randomness, evil, disguising tuning, non-octave tuning, flaws, beauty, the joy of doing creative work yourself, AI, picking your genres, the microtonal community, and art. Be sure to check out Steve’s work as “Pentachrist” on Bandcamp, releasing new music periodically! Music The Road After [Four] - Pentachrist (15-TET) Machine Love [Look - A Living Retrospective] - mües...
071 - Denny Genovese
June 28, 2023 12:56 - 2 hours - 122 MBIn this episode, Denny Genovese recalls his history of creating and studying microtonal music, and his experience creating and performing in the impressive Exotic Music Ensemble. Join us as we become inspired through the brown note, Ivor Darreg’s secret math codes, the origins of Fractal Tune Smithy, the Moody Blues, FM synthesis, JI scales, and numerous other topics. Denny also explains his discography, and each individual instrument of the ensemble. Music [Intro] Five in Five [JI] ...
070 - Danny Playamaqui
May 31, 2023 13:00 - 56 minutes - 64.7 MBCheck out Danny Playamaqui’s electronic music, a hugely expansive discography using a staggering variety of techniques. Danny conducts by-ear-tuning editing, strategic de-tuning, varispeed tricks, and poly-systemic techniques in addition to starting out with xenharmonic tunings as templates. Luckily, 4 bars a day keeps the doctor away (or is it an apple? Perhaps a lemon, or some paprika). We take inspiration and feedback from what is around us, trying to counterbalance that with boredom, mot...
069 - Bryan Deister
May 19, 2023 13:24 - 1 hour - 82 MBCome join us for a pleasant studio chat with Bryan Deister, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and jazz pianist extraordinaire. Recently he has been exploring microtonal covers on the Lumatone, with massive success on TikTok. He has also written many albums featuring microtonal music in various tuning systems, generally equal divisions, the most recent fully microtonal one being “In Your Hands.” Our conversation covers many topics relating to context switching, genre, surveys, paucitonality, a...
068 - Chris Bandy
February 28, 2023 18:00 - 49 minutes - 57.3 MBChris Bandy, a cappella maestro and creative polymath, joins us to discuss the microtonality of his spectacular arrangements on YouTube. He works in Logic Pro using FlexPitch. Most of his microtonal strategies involve tuning standard adjustments and drifts, or moving microtonal distances. His most xenharmonic sounding arrangement is likely “Where is Love,” and his latest video, “Silent Night,” gets really in-depth and has pioneered several extremities of his style (vocal agility, subtle and ...
067 - D&D's guide
February 28, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBDave Keenan and Douglas Blumeyer have written an in-depth, specific guide about the mathematical principles of regular temperament theory that are groundbreaking in their consistency and explanatory power. We have them on to discuss how the exchanges evolved, de-mystify some theory concepts, and get spicy with terminology. Music [Intro] Dave Keenan - Tumbling Dekany four six five seven nine [JI] [Outro] Douglas Blumeyer - Blumeyer Comma JI Unpump [JI] D&D’s guide: https://...
066 - Mat Muntz
February 24, 2023 14:00 - 55 minutes - 64.1 MBExperimental bagpipe and bass legend Mat Muntz brings his Croatian folk music expertise to the table… a topic most would say he has matsered in depth. Check out his latest album “Phantom Island” on Bandcamp, which freely combines folk music and jazz idioms into a grand polysystemic masterpiece. A lot of our conversation revolves around the intriguing differences between instruments such as bagpipes and double reeds, folk music/other influences, and tuning systems existing together in the sam...
065 - Aaron Myers-Brooks
November 28, 2022 12:00 - 35 minutes - 40.6 MBCheck out this conversation with Aaron Myers-Brooks, Pittsburgh prog guitarist/composer extraordinaire. His latest album, “Oblique,” is a microtonal odyssey exploring various quirky polyrhythms, applications of 17-tone equal temperament, electronic sounds, and distortion flavors. We get an inside exclusive look at the scores to “Energy Shapes”, figure out why one might use up and down arrows instead of Gould accidentals, and talk about “drawing” microtones in the highC program. Music [Intr...
064 - The One Footed Bride
November 15, 2022 16:02 - 1 hour - 66.3 MB“One-Footed” is a piece written by Taylor Brook named after Harry Partch’s “The One-Footed Bride'' Just-Intonation diagram. We discuss the aforementioned piece with Taylor Brook and John Schneider, diving into the ins and outs of writing idiomatically for the Partch ensemble, using Partch as inspiration, notation, and extended techniques on these instruments. The Del Sol quartet played the string parts! Come join us in exploring this vast sound world inside this justly tuned alternative orch...
063 - acreil
August 29, 2022 08:34 - 39 minutes - 45.1 MBCheck out acreil’s music! Algorithmic albums appended with “a.” Keeper of obscure words in lists. Hardware enthusiast and certified synth geek. We have a delightful episode discussing how acreil works in Pure Data among other curiosities, such as how one navigates form to prevent boredom. Not only do we mess it up (or whatever), but we solve the paradox of influence and extremity, by making one chord at a time in chord networks. Music acropora antozone [acheiropoietic ansätze] - acreil 🎧👂...
062 - Skueue
August 22, 2022 08:16 - 49 minutes - 57 MBAlgorithmic August kicks off with Skueue, builder of the unnamed machine in Pure Data. This is an abstract, idea-filled episode packed to the brim with insights about the process. Our points of focus include a discussion of how writing affects software, uncommon disagreement about common practice, VST’s in PD, programming cadences, rootful resolutions, clowntone heptatonica, and SAMPLING. Eventually, we decide that algorithmic music written to sound as its author intended is a success. Mus...
061 - Nicholas Denton Protsack
April 30, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 56.5 MBNicholas Denton Protsack’s music abounds with spectral delights of various kinds. Our talk today has a particular focus on notation, delving into the strategy behind its presentation. As we study tuning more and more, becoming less rigid with its implementation, it becomes helpful to focus on not just approximating some tunings with others, but also to focus on the broader conceptual ideas behind the tuning labels. In particular, polysystemic tunings tend to hint at the methodology of their ...
060 - Aaron Breeze
April 12, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBHow on earth does one create a 1200-tone tone row? Or even a 372-tone row in Sibelius? Find out in this wacky episode featuring Aaron Breeze, the swingin’ licc master himself! The broader topics in this thrilling, conversational episode include silliness and perceived complexity, the connection between playing and speaking, red dress methodology, repetition and intent, presentation in music, high-effort memes, mixing contexts and genres, and the social state of online spaces. We’re psyched t...
059 - Stephen James Taylor
March 31, 2022 15:55 - 1 hour - 118 MBIn this colorful, rich episode, we take a look into the importance of visual and narrative elements in accompanying microtonal music and its ideas. Stephen James Taylor does this not only through writing music in film, but also through his own visual content, such as in “Surfing the Sonic Sky,” an important documentary about Erv Wilson. Among the topics discussed here are: how to approach microtonality in film composition (mixing that with 12-TET), dosage control, the emotions one can only g...
058 - Anna-Maria Hefele
March 12, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 45.3 MBAnna-Maria Hefele, overtone singing sensation, has kindly graced us with her presence! Witness conversation about the tuning and construction of the intricate and aesthetically majestic Lambdoma project (built by Josef Baier). We also discuss how overtone singing intertwines with various musical ideas (production, style, classical technique, analytically hearing sound, the clash between overtones and 12-TET, glissando and vibrato). Be sure to check out her overtone singing class! Doing some...
057 - Ventifacts
November 12, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 79 MBA fascinating collaboration between Ben Spees, of The Mercury Tree, and Damon Waitkus, of Jack O’ the Clock. We take a look at the acoustic instruments used to create it (including non-Western ones), swap files, and talk about the challenges and inspirations behind the project. We also affirm quarter tones as part of the xenharmonic canon, nerd out about the regularity of scales, and hint at the secret “Migraine” project. Check out Ventifacts on Bandcamp, it is WELL worth the listen! Doing ...
056 - Ben Hjertmann & Emmalee Hunnicutt
November 01, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 71.1 MB“Visitors,” a lovely acoustic journey inspired by the visits of animals, is an album that leads to great conversation. Performed by Ben Hjertmann and Emmalee Hunnicutt, this masterpiece uses many different instruments which we discuss here. Fresh topics include: the act of rounding fretless tab, what a mentally ill Sufjan Stevens would sound like, performing live, JI lattices, chord symbols, and why we like secrets. All of the music from the episode is from the album, which is on Bandcamp! B...
055 - Hear Between the Lines
July 30, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBWe chat with Rami Olsen and Freddi Sturm, the brains behind “Hear Between the Lines,” about all things microtonal arranging/content! Topics touched upon include contrived wet food analogies, channel ideas, the story of Rami’s cool guitars, fooling the ear by drifting, comparing different tuning systems’ whole tone scales, piano pedal shredding, and the complications that arise in microtonality from using notation! By the way, their idea for monosyllabic words on quarter accidentals is a grea...
054 - browsers and inharmonic sleep therapy (Sevish)
June 30, 2021 21:51 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBSevish and I chat about software, instruments, and philosophical questions. We are both excited to continually witness more and more people become interested in microtonality! Web-based browsers such as Scale Workshop, Xenpaper, and Leimma have made it even easier for people to play microtones without downloading synthesizers - all you need is an Internet connection. Sevish also explains how MPE works and why that’s helpful. Find out once and for all whether we’re just hitting random notes o...
053 - Automatic Microtonal Guitar (Tolgahan Çoğulu)
May 24, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 51.2 MBCheck out our latest conversation with the brilliant guitarist Tolgahan Çoğulu, inventor of the LEGO microtonal guitar and automatic microtonal guitar. We dive into how these guitars work, how they could be useful for playing microtones, the inspiration behind these incredible ideas, and the geometry of making frets tune accurately on a LEGO grid! If anyone listening to this episode wants to sponsor the automatic microtonal guitar, or knows someone who would, please reach out to Tolgahan at ...
052B - Subhraag Singh
January 12, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBHey all! Since Now&Xen is on hiatus, I wanted to give you some content anyway, so here's the last episode we had on as a Patreon exclusive! I may be releasing select Patreon-exclusive episodes during hiatus sometimes. This wonderful conversation features Subhraag and I talking about Infinitone DMT, an extremely exciting software that acts as the first really practical digital plugin just for retuning synths! Some examples of what it can do? Automate tuning parameters, like fundamental fre...
052 - Eric Ederer
December 29, 2020 12:36 - 1 hour - 104 MBWe dissect makam scales with Dr. Eric Ederer, using his fantastic instruments and deep knowledge of theory & praxis. Makam music uses a lot of different parameters to identify itself to its listeners, such as direction (seyir) and where the melody starts. There is a lot of analysis work that can be done in this field, especially in describing historically accurate modulation, and/or listing melodic tropes that indicate certain makams. Part of Dr. Ederer’s research involved recording how expe...
051 - Dsilton (Georg Vogel)
December 12, 2020 07:05 - 50 minutes - 58.7 MBWe discuss the origin and style of the polystylistic jazz band Dsilton, as well as the 36-note keyboard that Georg Vogel often plays and the tuning setups. Be sure to look out for Dsilton’s first studio album out sometime in spring or summer 2021! They play a lot of music live that you can see on their YouTube channels. Music Intro: Iwan Baanas - Dsilton Halogenflügel - Georg Vogel Dsilton - Dsilton (Georg Vogel & David Dornig) Malend (neon moers festival) - Dsilton Prismasca...
050 - Robin Meiksins
November 30, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBJoin us for a conversation with Robin Meiksins, flute performer extraordinaire! She plays lots of new music, and as such is familiar with many contemporary techniques. We discuss favorite tuning systems to play in, ways to achieve microtones on the flute, and how notation can be viewed as “representative” of particular schools of thought. Music (all songs on flute performed by Robin Meiksins) Intro: Cassandra’s Song - Brian Ferneyhough January 17, 2020 - Justin Houser Couples’ ...
049 - Taylor Brook
November 12, 2020 15:10 - 1 hour - 91.8 MBComposer Taylor Brook regularly works with Just Intonation, string players, and piano timbres. We discuss some of the notational and compositional challenges of working with Just Intonation, the JACK quartet, comma drift, secrets for hiding dissonance, and writing with microtones. Music Intro: Virtutes Occultae (16: Cloud Pastoral) - Taylor Brook Drifts (II: Phrygia) - Taylor Brook Koan - James Tenney MOTTE - Thomas Nicholson Limited Approximations - Georg Friedrich Haas Virt...
048 - Erica dal Bassa, soprano sfogato
October 31, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBComposer-performer Erica dal Bassa is an innovator in electronic and vocal music. We explore varied experimental topics such as bytebeat, singing techniques, narratives, and microtonal effects. One way to explore possibilities of the voice in music is to use resonance to make one’s voice sound either masculine or feminine, which soprano sfogato uses to great effect! Other techniques we explore include overtone singing, Tibetan throat singing, polyphonic singing, and androgynous singing. ...
047 - Michael Harrison
October 12, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBComposer Michael Harrison and I talk about his deep interests in Indian classical music (solfege, tuning, raga, and practice) as well as Just Intonation (septimal intervals). His latest piece, “Just Constellations,” is an a cappella piece sung/commissioned by the iconic Roomful of Teeth ensemble. Topics include improvisation, commatic intervals in chords, minimalist composers (La Monte Young, Terry Riley), and the benefits of learning from a variety of styles. The harmonic piano, which we al...
046 - Músico Nerd (Gustavo Silveira)
September 12, 2020 19:47 - 35 minutes - 41.1 MBA stimulating conversation about content creation, electronics, and microtonal controllers! Gustavo is the original creator of the XT Synth, and his channel has classes on how to make DIY human-computer interfaces. We discuss how we would create a microtonal fretless controller type that no one has ever seen before, and compare it to other interfaces. Most of the episode is bonus content on our Patreon, so here is the second half! https://www.patreon.com/posts/046b-musico-nerd-41536053?u...
045 - Vivian Tylinska
August 25, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBVivian and I chat about microtonal tuning systems, building instruments, playing guitar, and metal! Her Bandcamp name is Victory Over the Sun. You should be extremely excited about her upcoming microtonal metal album in 17-tone equal temperament! We go over a few of the demos for this album, and play intervals back and forth on keyboards and guitars. We also crack the code for going viral on Twitter on the side. Music Intro: The Enormous Cosmos (in the cavity of the mouth) - Victory ...
044 - Paul Dolden
August 19, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 134 MBJoin esteemed Canadian composer Paul Dolden and I for a delightful romp through xenharmonic music that sounds alive and exciting. We rewrite the music curriculum, win the candy, gab about psychoacoustics and instrumental technique, and discuss compositional philosophy and craftsmanship. As of right now, nobody is writing with microtonality like Paul, who has spent 40 years writing microtonal compositions by mixing hundreds of recorded musical parts in dense, polished layers. Music In...
043 - Amelia Huff (Zhea Erose)
July 31, 2020 23:00 - 25 minutes - 29 MBVoice expert Amelia Huff and I talk about the harmonic series in an in-depth way! Memes, witchcraft, acoustics, production, human-voice aesthetics, and novendecimal scales are just some of the many topics we cover in this exciting conversation! In her music, Amelia uses the harmonic series in macro-harmonic systems whose notes’ frequency ratios share denominators, instead of scales built from tonality diamonds as is usually the case. Our harmonic series talk is particularly revelatory becaus...
042 - Sintel
July 12, 2020 18:00 - 41 minutes - 94.9 MBSintel is a biologist, visual artist, game creator, and multi-instrumentalist who uses a variety of tuning systems in his work. Our stimulating conversation covers topics such as music theory, software friction/workflow, improvisation/self-teaching, psychoacoustics, and the human genome. Sintel is creating several useful kinds of software for creating microtonal music, most notably an editor using continuous pitch lines, and a script for rendering 12 tone equal temperament melodies in anothe...
041 - Hidekazu Wakabayashi (微分音チャンネル)
June 30, 2020 05:35 - 53 minutes - 123 MBHidekazu Wakabayashi is a multi-instrumentalist who puts his works on YouTube with lots of incredible visual content! We talk about traditional music, cover songs, brown notes, recycling, the legendary “Iceface tuning” from his dreams, and other instruments. Among those discussed include Tolgahan Çoğulu’s microtonal guitar frets, the fluid piano, non-Western flutes, and fretless guitars. We also figure out who’s best between YouTube and Bandcamp! Music Intro: IceFace tuned piano (Mic...
40edo - 🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘
June 15, 2020 03:38 - 2 hours - 149 MBSevish and Jacob Barton interview Stephen Weigel about his new absurdist postmodern EDM album, one that pushes the envelope with regards to how complexity is perceived and how tuning systems are defined and used. Topics include speaking vs. writing, xenrhythm, the Bandcamp scene, imaginary divisions of the octave, dog vs. cat people, workflow, exploring new constraints on parameters, support, and how to piss off the right people. Music 71edo, 72edo, 105edo, 106edo, 204edo, 205edo (🎧👂...
039 - Hitomi Shimizu (Syzygys)
May 30, 2020 14:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBWe talk about the microtonal pop duo Syzygys and how they play with Harry Partch’s 43-tone Genesis scale. How do you make music sound interesting when your keyboard has less range than an ocarina? How do you tune a reed organ to 11-limit JI without a computer? Why did György Ligeti almost buy Syzygys’s microtonal keyboard? Find out in this episode! Music Intro: D.P.O. - Syzygys Bewitched - Harry Partch And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma - Harry Partch Syzygy Moon -...
038 - Joe Monzo
May 29, 2020 14:24 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBJoe Monzo and I talk about lots of tuning theory and memories of events past. Comparisons are made between 37edo (alas! The episode is only 1 away!) and 22edo, as he recently completed a wildly chromatic score of a 37edo piece called “The Kog Sisters.” Joe Monzo came up with many important concepts and has gathered a lot of historical and mathematical information together on his website, initially hosted at sonic-arts, but now on tonalsoft. We talk jazz, Tonescape (lattice software), Musesco...
037 - Isaac Schankler
April 29, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBOn this episode of Now&Xen, we talk with electronic guru Isaac Schankler about his relationship with microtonality as a composer, reasons to use just intonation or equal temperament, and creative ways to re-tune instruments during performance to mess with expectation. His piece “Alien Warp Etude,” performed by Aaron Kallay, creatively chunks out the 5 + 7 nature of the keyboard with scales a neutral third apart from each other. Be sure to check out the recent album he put out in March to hel...
036 - James Mulvale
April 20, 2020 16:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBWith James Mulvale, we discuss what it’s like to be new to microtonality, working in a DAW and with instruments. We also talk about microtonality in pop music and in the media, creative ideas, and how recent music has been trending towards becoming more microtonal on a variety of levels. James has a new microtonal radio show - be sure to check it out at the link below! Music Lucky Numbers - James Mulvale [24edo] Plans - James Mulvale [19edo] Headcase - James Mulvale [24edo] Det...
035 - Kraig Grady
April 12, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBIn this episode, we talk about the instruments of the Shadow Theatre, Anaphoria, and the mysterious Clocks & Clouds. Soar through the sonic sky with us through adventures of storytelling, shadow puppets, standing waves, meta-slendro, metal, wood, sequences, and visual corporeality. Music Intro: To Search For a Trace - Clocks and Clouds US Highball - Harry Partch Landscapes and Contours - Clocks and Clouds Wedding Song - Anaphoria Stolen Stars - Anaphoria Untitled Love Song ...
034 - Hunter Ewen
March 27, 2020 15:29 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBWe talk with multimedia composer Hunter Ewen about what it’s like to be alive in the 21st century. Microtonality has lots of potential to be used as a temporal flag, to highlight a sense of off-ness, and to expand the sonic world which we inhabit. We also answer questions such as: how does the presentation of music, and/or extra-musical factors, affect the way we perceive it? And just how many times can we mention John Cage in a single episode? Music Intro: Venom, Consumption, and Sa...
033 - Aaron Krister Johnson
March 22, 2020 22:01 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBJoin us for an exciting episode with the founder of UnTwelve, Aaron Krister Johnson! We talk about why Facebook sucks, early music, methods of music composition, and computers/artificial intelligence. We also figure out Aaron’s secret identity in ambient music… Join the UnTwelve tuning list for great conversations about microtonality away from Facebook! http://lists.untwelve.org/listinfo.cgi/tuning-discuss-untwelve.org Music Intro: Lydian Dance/Phrygian Neutral Dance [17edo] Etude...
032 - Robert Lopez-Hanshaw
February 27, 2020 15:22 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBMicrotonal choral music is exciting and intense! Robert Lopez-Hanshaw premiered a piece in 72-tone equal temperament featuring the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, “vokas animo,” which we talk about here! We explore techniques to train the average choir in singing microtones, out of contexts that use guide-tracks or expert performers. Discover why we need more repertoire that accomplishes this feat. Music Intro: vokas animo - Robert Lopez-Hanshaw Alleluia - Aaron Kister Johnson ...