'duration' | polychromatic 72

[@abigailgreer7144]

Dolores, I want to truly thank you from the bottom of my heart. I have synesthesia, a condition where my senses are mixed and I correlate different colors and sounds and emotions and textures and scents together. It's rather a large jumble, but I couldn't imagine a life without it. The only downside for me personally, though, is that most music has never resonated just right with me. The colors never matched just right, the texture felt wrong. But you were the person to introduce me to polychromatic music through your TED Talk, and for the first time in my life, everything fits. Your compositions are my favorite songs. Thank you so, SO much.

[@___xyz___]

I feel the exact same way! I thought I would struggle when I heard the Tonal Plexus was 106 notes per octave, but she plays it so cleanly, all the colours unfold. I don't think I've ever heard such a beautiful harmony.

[@___xyz___]

Nelson Robert Willis Synesthesia is not something that you can _experience_ per se, as far as I'm aware. It is a cognitive disorder that is discovered gradually since birth. What you felt while on narcotics is something different. Thought I'd add my 2 cents :-)

[@___xyz___]

@@violarulez I agree. But the state you're entering through the use of drugs isn't called synesthesia any more than not satisfying your junk food desire means you're starving. You may feel that way, but the actual neurophysiological characteristics for which the diagnosis applies, are non-existent. Thus, synesthesia is an improper description. Incidentally, the attempt to deduce someone's experience with a specific psychoactive drug by their ability to make a terminological distinction, does not make sense.

[@thatoneweirdkid7385]

I’m no synesthete but I can almost, almost, see colours when I listen to this music; and that’s extremely rare.

[@kito-]

I love the way the slightly sharp and flat notes added to the chords thicken up the sound. It's so wonderful to listen to music I can't easily or immediately make sense of.

[@gNatflaps]

I find that it has a chorus effect to it. In much the same way that if you detune a signal and layer it ontop of a dry version of that signal, it thickens up the sound.

[@___xyz___]

Interestingly, it's no different from what an ordinary untempered piano does. If you tune it just, however, the chorus goes away and the sound becomes cold, flat and thin. The real advantage to a microtonal instruments such as this is the ability to control this width independently. Of course, you could still play it like any ordinary twelve-notes-per-octave piano and just add nuances:-)

[@c64cosmin]

This is more than traditional harmony, it's a matter of textures and recognizable patters that the tones generate destructively&constructively. I'm so glad that microtonal music is "a thing" and I can enjoy creations from the past and the future to come. Thank you Dolores for your music.

[@marcmitchell]

They say its not the destination but the journey that counts.. & i have to say i believe the same is true for humans audible evolution, its fascinating the relationship between chords, in over 30 years of producing music its never the single sound or moment that opens the heart but the transition between them, movement over time & our response. Here we are pushing those boundaries, like we are looking for a new feeling , a new or extended palette of emotional response. As always, great work in this field Dolores. Working with music 24 hrs a day your compositions feel like a clean peaceful empty playground for the few thinking ahead. :) love from the other side of the planet x

[@caseyrauch9151]

Lovely find of the week. Gonna be taking massive amounts of inspiration from this channel.

[@ArthurSieg]

Is there a possibility to buy a CD/Vynil/anything with your work on it? I find your music so soothing and beautiful. I never expected to find anything like this in the realm of modern classical music, and I'm loving it. Being a musician myself, I find that my main source of inspiration comes from harmony. And you've unlocked a whole new world!

[@OdinComposer]

Very cool! I'm wondering though... this is still mostly buildt upon a chromatic framework, melodically. Our normal system grew out as a natural consequence of the greek modes through centuries of development. Given a polychromatic scale with a smaller register than the diatonic octave, you could play melodies made up of micro intervals until the ear gets used to the sound. Eventally some conventions if how to write such melodies should develop and after that, fitting such melodies together. Ultimately resulting in a new polychromatic harmonic framework. What do you think of this?

[@VexylObby]

If you mean the 12-tone, diatonic system, I disagree. I do believe that our ear tend towards favorable harmonies, however. We LOVE the octave, fifth, and fourth, right? Simply because of the behavior of sound-waves interacting. Our intuition would not come up with much different of a system. Additionally, the world of sound outside of our categories is not so cramped into the diatonic realm. This is one step closer to experimenting with bizarre intervals without segmenting the pitch so much.

[@Kzard47]

+vex I would argue that it is far more a social expectation that we "love" diatonic harmony. We hear this from an extremely young age and from day 1 are subjected to conventional harmony and music. It is impossible for someone not to experience this, I don't believe it is because the way the sound-waves interact. There is far more interesting reverberation of sound waves through dissonant harmony where true contrast comes alive.

[@VexylObby]

Both of those things are at play. Cultural influence is immensely strong. But our biological reaction to specific harmonies matters. Other animals react to specific sounds in a biased way as well.

[@Kzard47]

Fair enough, it makes sense for it to be a combination of both.

[@VexylObby]

Yeah, the infamous "nature vs. nurture" theories. xD

[@fishoutofwater7743]

Truly celestial music!

[@AlexSage]

Really!?!? sounds like a cacophony, how can you musically perceive it? I would map that midi instrument through DAW and make it sound like drum/melody machine... If I had it =))) It looks like a well built instrument...

[@AlexSage]

Really!?!? sounds like a cacophony, how can you musically perceive it? I would map that midi instrument through DAW and make it sound like drum/melody machine... If I had it =))) It looks like a well built instrument...

[@ShakuhachiSpirit]

Wonderful sound. I love your description as well: There is much to contemplate in your words. Musical languages are equally limiting and also freeing as are our mental languages. The quantum collapse of the multiverse future through the present instant of sound and the past recollection which is a song is reflective of all of creation...

[@alik250]

So glad you're posting again, I love your music so much

[@volvagianintendo6465]

Heartwarming harmony, with pretty pitch beating

[@UlisesRockerHR]

I consider you a great musical explorator! How did you start this journey? Where did you learn the fundaments of your experimentation? Thanks for your music.

[@JamesJones-zt2yx]

Beautiful! I wonder what polychromatic dance music would sound like?

[@fryingwiththeantidote2486]

You are such a badass, this music I've been hearing on your channel is incredible. Are there any other composers you know of today doing similar studies of microtonal/polychromatic music? I'm quite familiar with the work of Ives, Partch, Hàba and all that good stuff but your work really has something that their's doesn't! keep up the great work, I'm certain that what you're doing now will have a big effect on the music of the future.

[@dolomuse]

I haven't had the time to fully explore what is out there on youtube yet... but here are a few artists to check out: kzbin.info kzbin.info kzbin.info kzbin.info

[@___xyz___]

Wow, that's a great list. Thank you, Dolores! While it's not quite microtonal (unless you consider his masterful use of vibrato), you might appreciate the work of the late Allan Holdsworth.

[@umrasangus]

Unknown Entity Allan Holdsworth is life!!!!!

[@antoniogzz4852]

Thank you Dolores this is extraordinary !

[@Raddland]

I like the idea of being able to play detuned notes at a whim. I know that's not necessarily the idea of polychromatic, but there are some moments in this piece where you double up on the same note, but have it detuned. Really reminds me of early 8bit NES music, where many notes in a melody were strategically detuned just to create this same effect.

[@wyc7tjmf794]

This one reminds me of something Edward Artemiev has written... or was that Gubaidullina? I can't quite pinpoint the references (they are intentional, right? Or is it just me?), but it vaguely reminds me of something I've heard before. Strange and beautiful feeling. Thank you once again.

[@dolomuse]

Sofia Gubaidulina’s beautiful compositions encompass deep explorations of acoustic sound within a chromatic pitch language. Stylistically, her works seem to be in a genre of ‘spectral’ (sound-color) compositions. Her insights are unique and evolutionary to me - using complexes of pitch, sound and timbre, under a conceptual foundation of rhythmic ‘consonance’ and ‘dissonance’... what a wonderful realm to explore. Thank you for introducing me to her musical world. My musical explorations are in the realm of microtonal pitch-color, initially in the context of harmony (polyphony and harmonics) with very simple rhythm. The emphasis here is in on perceiving these new pitch colors and their sonic interactions in a direct way. I see this process and style of composition as a starting point (point of departure) from the chromatic system. Increasing complexity of rhythm, melody/counterpoint and sound design/timbre are on the horizon. Thanks also for the introduction to Eduard Artemyev, I especially enjoy the electro-ambient, tonal textures he creates.

[@ophis2809]

Never thought I'd get to see one of your compositions released :) Beautiful like all of the others

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

Really cool, as always

[@klavieronin]

This is mesmerising!

[@anagutierrez-scholl2124]

what a beautiful composition

[@fourtheye111]

Inspiring!

[@ingorichter649]

Very interesting piece of modern organ music. Simply amazing like every other track from this contemporary and visionary composer.

[@Planthier76]

Hi Dolores, How the lumatone and the MicroZone U990 compare ? Ps : Amazing composition by the way 😍

[@hedgehog_fox]

This just blew my mind.

[@Chernabog]

Do you have maded any album? i'd really love to listen something like these

[@soliv27]

Beautiful ! It sounds a bit like prewar Olivier Messiaen organ work, celestial. Or an evolution of it, not like his too radical too personnal 'birds work'. Thank you for sharing.

[@wonpound5326]

insane feelings!!!

[@peterYOUpanne]

Hi, it's really a beautiful sound. Is that the only instrument playing?

[@dolomuse]

Yes. The keyboard is a Microzone u-648 and the sound sources I used are Omnisphere and Kontakt.

[@oliverparkes1050]

why are artists not making use of this technology. I hope I'm not missing anything. Are there albums that we all know that include polychromatic music? king Gizzard?

[@warrshane]

That's space crazy!

[@jacekzielina1359]

I guess this kind of music confuses people with abolute pitch. Even for me it sounds very strange...but who knows maybe it´s the future of the music....

[@fortheloveofnoise]

An extra depth to sound. Just remember, blue use to also be considered green long ago....until we began to perceive it as different. There are many more colors out there that we group with existing ones, but are variations of the existing while also being seperate. A great example, which I use as my avatar is a plasma ball. It generates some colors you may describe as purple or blue....but they are what pink is to red. We have described the color of red with white as its own color, pink....which is the same principle going on with this purple and blue. It is much harder for our brains to process this difference in comparison to the effect with red. Seeing it in that plasma state makes it a little easier, if you know how to think about the color you are seeing. Maybe due to how light and wavelengths work the "pink equivalents" can not really be seen or perceived outside of the plasma domain. I know a lot of that sounded crazy, but if you keep reading and thinking about it... it may flick a switch in your head. There is a much greater complexity of color all around us than we can comprehend.

[@AlbertAnguela]

love your music

[@winstonmisha]

Crazy harmonies

[@XSimonEntertainmentX]

love it

[@ysbhw]

>tfw dolores turns on the warm blanket 0:27

[@MaicolMorgotti]

[@collinversion297]

your so cool dolomuse!

[@Ymp_11]

Yeah, it's weird to think that speed can only be measured according to some point which SEEMS stable; actually planet earth is moving something like 300km/s around the galactic center, and if I remember well as much as 600km/s relative to the cosmic microwave background... in my own cosmology the spiritual dimension is tied to space and time and souls are the smallest division of it. To me, the potential energy of the Tsar Bomba is 0 as long as there isn't a human or conscious being to detonate it.

[@sebastiancienfuegos2013]

julian carrillo es el padre de la musica policromatica

[@reycomution]

i feel a lot of emotions... those are a lot of frecuencys oooo :..(

[@EssV_]

*Can't you do jazz with this. or something that isn't sustained for years. Sure the bladerunner esque compositions are cool. But what is the true function of this if it's only limited to one type of sound, one type or structure of composition. Could you try to write something like that. I watched your Ted talk. where's the possibilities of this instrument.*

[@dolomuse]

The world of new musical possibilities is so immense. For now, I am focusing on exploring the micro-pitch interactions and sonic effects of harmony and harmonics. I hope to eventually explore the areas and implications of melodic, rhythmic and timbral elements in polychromatic music. For some excellent microtonal jazz, I would recommend checking out Philipp Gerschlauer. kzbin.info/door/_XF42BPrR4G3At5CL2hntQ

[@fireandwater345]

Check out Mikrojazz, by Philipp Gerschlauer!

[@finchman7654]

ok.................i dont get it......................sounds out of tune to me.........and i have good hearing notewise

[@dolomuse]

These musical examples are intended as part of a process of learning to hear and discriminate more notes in the pitch continuum. The association and integration of ‘pitch-color’ can make the process more intuitive. The vague sense of out of tune (or flat or sharp) comes from trying to fit high-resolution pitches into a low-res pitch system (chromatic, modal). An analogy that comes to mind is image rendering on the old dot matrix printer. It’s like trying to understand and ‘frame’ a high definition image based on the assumptions and limitations of dot matrix technology - whatever doesn’t fit is conceived as imperfect or ‘out of tune’.

[@fortheloveofnoise]

Out of tune is an illusion.

[@outrocanal8167]

sounds vintage

[@neoseyes]

I doubt you would sing like this

[@jaymartin699]

not interesting