Cycles (31 TET Microtonal)

[@Thaumas]

I love this. What a great demonstration of the consonance 31TET can provide. It is always a joy to find microtonal artists like you. The video was very good as well! Love how the tunnel ends at the end.

[@MD-so6cz]

This is the kind of music that plays when your mind travels to another plane of existence at 3AM

[@brightonmusicstudios]

When you drift to ether realms :)

[@dumaass]

4d minecraft OST

[@lunyxappocalypse7071]

@@dumaass You mean 4D Miner?

[@dumaass]

​@@lunyxappocalypse7071 i meant a 4d minecraft with songs by c418, but sure

[@pamplemoo]

This literally makes me feel things I could never with 12 TET. This is peak microtonality

[@silentgloria]

1:16 that sweet harmonic seventh GOD DAMN

[@cactusowo1835]

yeah, it souns like *_blrrrrrrrnggg_*

[@gambe96]

@@cactusowo1835 That's resonance caused by pure intervals. Nothing better than the BRRNNGG of a pure interval.

[@CubicMathTime]

@@gambe96 excuse me sir it's _blrrrrrrrnggg_ not BRRNNGG

[@Fire_Axus]

@@CubicMathTime no its brlllllllg

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

​@@gambe96 There is something I love about missing the harmonic by a bit more as it can create a sense of thickness and color (Power chords are a good demonstration of the differences), a less granular equal temperament also has a cool sort of noticeable symmetry to it and is my favorite overal, but when it just has that resonant ring to it, that's so uniquely satisfying. I think just intonation is something more sound designers ought to look into, it lets you distort some crazier intervals etc. and get way different results, it can really blend that line between timbre and harmony too, especially when following the harmonic series, which is also what I recommend when running into the lower interval limit, literally the perfect interval structure for that whether it's just intonation or not. Also sounds awesome when you VERY slowly glide towards a perfect ratio on a held sound where the warbling is apparent, like a clean synth without detune. So fun to see how that sounds in more traditional things like blues scales.

[@noahnaugler7611]

Damn, it's a shame this hasn't gotten more recognition. I was really discouraged by the examples of microtonality in more educational videos, because naked microtones juxtaposed with 'normal' cadences sounds bad when you've got an entire lifetime of the western scale in your ears. But this, this shows how good microtonality can sound. You've gotta give the whole picture before a newbie can appreciate the minutia

[@unchaynd7266]

This music is like the feeling of having a crush on someone and not knowing if they like you back.

[@runningonemptyofficial]

1:39 one of the best transitions ever especially with the neutral chord I love it so much

[@prodby.luke22]

Something unique

[@PunmasterSTP]

I'm just trying to get into 19-TET, let alone 31-TET, but damn this had such a warm, pleasant sound. I think I also began to experience some strange feelings and emotions that I'm not sure I ever felt before. Thank you so much for making and sharing this music!

[@carrot_lovly]

So many more emotions than you get with just major and minor chords 😍

[@marcoroskoofficial]

This is amazing! I’ve gotten used to microtonal music now since late September. Not all of it though.

[@brightonmusicstudios]

31tet is great! I love how relaxing and wondrous this song sounds. This is a completely different dimension of music, and I love it!

[@7Korat]

Microtonal music made me into electronic music. Beautiful composition and video

[@Guapter]

this is sooo cool, i'm enjoing every part of it! transitions and chromatisms is beautiful! insteresting that familiar move like sequencing scale is sounding so good with pure intervals and more notes per gamma, interesting experience. I wish be more microtonal music in the world

[@lunyxappocalypse7071]

Its a very bright scale. I wonder what the equivalent opposite would be...

[@thelookanchannel2560]

If any piece of music could describe an acid trip, it's this one

[@enricobianchi4499]

check out the song High Visceral

[@brad3nnn]

1:30 mmm this is giving me augmented chord vibes but it's in 31TET; words can't explain how this makes me feel.

[@dimitrireinhart]

Damn, this is pretty good!

[@dannyaditya525]

0:40 - 1:03 is the best part for me

[@The-Real-Kapi]

beautiful.

[@amber_guitar]

I like this one again strangest music I've heard yet

[@louierubio]

When will it be on Spotify?

[@thehillo]

This is wild. Strepitoso. I hope you find a way to keep doing what you are doing

[@BlameJeux]

Why isn't this on Spotify? This sounds so great!

[@Hecatonicosachoron54]

Great composition! Edit: how did you make the background video?

[@seasonsof-microtonalmusic5589]

Thanks! I made the video in Blender. First thing I did was export all of the instrument tracks separately. In Blender I created six planes and added a bunch of modifiers to them, including a displacement modifier. It basically uses an image (in this case a cloud texture) to deform an object. Blender has this cool feature where you can bake an audio file to a keyframe curve. I essentially did that with each of the instrument tracks, on the parameter strength (which determines how much the modifier affects the geometry of the object).

[@marcelominal]

Nice song

[@WiardMusic]

Wow you are amazing! I listen to this while making homework ;)

[@electric7487]

I really love how much brighter flat keys sound in 31 compared to 12, and this song demonstrates it perfectly. It's a shame modern music education is so fixated on 12 notes because 999 out of 1000 people are really missing out.

[@freakyj3175]

I'm really interested in 19 tet music, what software/daw do you use to make microtonal music?

[@seasonsof-microtonalmusic5589]

I’m using Logic, but you could use any DAW that supports vst plugins. The plugins I mostly use are EP-MK1 and Surge. These synthesizers support a feature called “full microtonal retuning” which allows the user to specify any scale that the plugin will map incoming midi data onto. The process happens either completely without external files (like in EP-MK1 for EDO scales), with .scl and .kbm files (like in Surge), or using one of the various other file types. The .scl file stores the specific cent values of the scale steps and the .kbm file specifies one note with a corresponding frequency, which the other notes are then calculated from (just like in most Western music, A4=440Hz). This means that in this specific workflow, my DAW doesn’t know I’m even doing microtonal - though there are some DAWs out there that support microtonal retuning globally.

[@maximilianogabrielmirandaz2908]

Very nice!

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

Awesome!

[@sophie4159]

i love this ❤

[@williamroe8905]

dang

[@cactusowo1835]

Thank you for bringing 7/4 ratio o‿o Also: new sub

[@appliedbss]

Very underrated song :)

[@epiphoney]

Nice. Somehow I went from Hear Between The Lines's Stevie Wonder tribute to here. Would be cool if I could see the JI chords as they play.

[@MemeSnack]

Yoo, this is extremely awesome 😮. Would you mind if I used it for my videos? I'd give proper credit, obviously.

[@seasonsof-microtonalmusic5589]

Thank you! Yes, feel free to use it :)

[@SynthfulDuck]

I heard a clear struggle to find the next chord.

[@astrophil79]

grand!

[@richardschmassmann8650]

Beautiful! There could be a bit more dynamic (up/down) and a bit more variations in the beat. Otherwise it has nice harmonies.

[@Thaumas]

Is surge the bass? I'm downloading these plugins rn 😆

[@seasonsof-microtonalmusic5589]

Yes, it’s the stock preset “E-Bass” from the Bass category :)

[@Thaumas]

@@seasonsof-microtonalmusic5589 Epic, thank you!

[@wongwahau4705]

Is this really use 31 tones? From C to C again? Or just 31-tone scale?

[@seasonsof-microtonalmusic5589]

Yes, 31 notes per octave (so it takes 31 chromatic steps to get from one C to the next C)

[@Eliseo_M_P]

It doesn't use all 31 notes I think, but it uses a subset of a scale dividing the octave into 31 notes.

[@obineg5752]

i quit after 50%, because in the first half there are only 3 notes which are not part of 12tet.

[@kennethray8473]

Umm... one note can be the exact same as 12TET. Many are very close, so we still hear similar harmonies, but even then, there were WAY more than three notes that felt "off" to me. Maybe another, closer listen is warranted?

[@obineg5752]

@@kennethray8473 let me rephrase: they sound like beeing part of 12tet - probably because the composition technique used was improvisation. :)

[@GizzyDillespee]

IDK, from 0:58 to 1:25 it sounded like more than 3 notes were either too out or too in tune for 12edo. Maybe it's only 3 notes, but many more intervals between them and the other notes gives me the illusion of more unique notes? I'm open to either possibility, but it sure sounds like more than 3 unusual notes.

[@gambe96]

@@obineg5752 Well it's "Xen" composition that doesn't try to be harsh and difficult. It's comprehensible to most people. It follows the rules, it doesn't try to break anything.

[@monsia101]

not from gd