benyamind - The Spirit Bird | 22-EDO

[@Xotla]

This. It blows my mind. Incredibly uniquely beautiful. I love the middle eastern quarter tone vibe, but with the harmonies of 22edo rather than 24edo.

[@benyamind]

Thanks man! Yeah, I agree. 22edo has a lot of oriental potential, there are some interesting intervals that are close to actual traditional middle eastern intervals, but not quite, so it has a different flavor.

[@e8heterotic649]

22 blows 24 out of the water in terms of usefulness per number of notes.

[@cactusowo1835]

@@e8heterotic649 chad 22edo vs smelly 24edo aka 12 with quarter tone

[@JLMoriart]

This is awesome, congrats on a killer track! Sounds like TV On The Radio mixed with Becca Stevens mixed with Falling You =)

[@johnsmith-ch7fg]

That guitar is beautiful

[@The_SOB_II]

thancks!

[@MacacoDoSistema]

after reading the name of the song, I can see the whole scene! Pretty introspective music with a pretty psychedelic touch, I love it :)

[@benyamind]

If the track triggers visualisations and scenery that's always good! Cheers!

[@stephenweigel]

Wow!!!!!!

[@BrandonLewisD]

Fantastic!

[@YoupMusic]

beautiful

[@LukaJCB]

This is so soo sooooo good, can you share which scale you used? :)

[@benyamind]

Thank you Luka! Glad you resonate with it. I haven't been working a lot with 22-edo after this initial phase so my knowledge of the intervals, scales and everything related kind of slipped away. It would take quite some time to re-analyze it. I did open up this project and rendered the midi of all the instrumentation (except vocals), so I could mail that to you? Then you can just have a look around to see what is happening melodically/harmonically. If interested email me (see description), and I'll send it over!

[@LukaJCB]

@@benyamind Wow I would absolutely love that! I'll send you an email, thank you so much!

[@element_119]

This is amazing! It's definitely one of my favorites, along with "The Scale of 'Nar"! I really love the lyric style, written more as prose than rhyme. And the way they're sung is amazing as well! Can I ask what the inspiration for them was? Regardless, this is an amazing work of art, and definitely one of my top favorite microtonal songs!

[@benyamind]

Thank you! Makes me really happy that you're digging it. Well, when I start sketching out something new, it can sometimes really trigger a rapid process where I get all sorts of ideas, visualizations and emotional contexts in my mind. I often think theme based, I love cinematic thoughts and I'm pretty much a dreamer so I guess those are the elements where I draw the ideas from. In the case of this track, I had some chords and they sort of quarter-note shifted here and there and that gave such an alien vibe. So I just in my mind played with the idea that there is a lost world where there is a protective bird that the people worship. And this is all just a metaphor, because the spirit bird can be anything to the listener. I sometimes like to keep lyrics simple and abstract so that it has an easy touch. Good question!