Rare Chord: Sin7♭♭2♭♭6 (harmony in 31-edo)

Abstravoyant explores winding lines, densely packed with tiny shimmering intervals.

theory stuff:
- The smallest step of 31edo is one of my favorite things about the entire tuning. There are so many useful cases for it. It can structurally relevant or purely ornamental. I love adding it in various areas of vertical structure to produce the characteristic shimmer effect you hear in my 31edo works.

- I started formalizing all the various basic shimmerblock combinations (where you purely add a shimmer effect to a perfect fifth). During that process I started working on this piece. The main object is R - bb2 - 5 - bb6. This object fascinated me because without careful treatment it can quickly sound like wrong notes or phasing from being out of tune. However, writing bb2 and bb6 is ugly and often these shimmersteps occur alongside 2 and 6 respectively, causing the shimmer to be a non-structural, primarily ornamental expansion. In hand writing, I notate these shimmer objects with non numeral symbols so they don't take up extension numbers.

This piece was actually started along time ago when I was first making the rare chords video series but I just didn't like part of it and only just finished it!

#musictheory #microtonality #harmony

[uraniidumbra]

The idea of layering pitches like that to create a shimmer effect is *absolutely brilliant* 👏

[Leitz_Music]

This sounds like video game music, but specifically for the very last level as you make your way to the final boss

[barditheweird]

I love how it works as a way to put a unison on any note you want. Gorgeous

[liogat]

This sounds like an actually composed version of what hooking modular synths up to mushrooms sounds like.
And I'm in love with every second of it.

[AK-fuij]

that maj7#11‡18 has awesome emotional tension! also that pseudo-ji A7 motif is incredible

excellent voice leading as usual and a much needed cathartic listen... the bb2/bb6 resolve so nicely

[connor.chan.jazzman]

This is absolutely mind melting. I cant understand the first thing about how this works theory wise, but it is so ethereal and beautiful to no end.

[appleofdoom]

This one to me sounds a lot like a microtonal version of Kapustin's pieces. The chaotic rhythmic dots in the bass and the quick jumps between really juicy jazzy chords as well as the falling octaves in the ending really remind me of his work.

[francisthepoet]

that thing at measure 62 is just heart wrenching.

[LeviMcClain]

Crunchy as a nature valley bar. I dig it!

[toasterstrudel]

this sounds like being really stuck on a problem and getting really pissed at it

[YostPeter]

This sounds like nothing I've heard. What a rich and beautiful sound.

[galoomba]

the chromatic aberration effect on the video is how this music feels

[dominiquemanchon]

Nice to hear from you again in this brilliant 31-ized E minor!

[abcxyz-pdux]

i always find myself coming back to this, i think i've listened to it about 6 times by now. it's just so good!!

[luphoria]

bars 16-17 are absolutely insane that's a fucking cluster WOW

[coreyyohm]

absolutely amazing. i’m picking music theory back up now. i refuse to give up.

[zyconnn]

This sounds like if the main character just won the toughest battle of their life, and they’re looking at the scenery, breathing in deeply, while the different shots of the scenery are flashing by

[lacrimis_solis]

never bad, everything sounds soooo goood

[laaastplaaace]

this was beautiful af. makes me want to get into music composition

i keep going back to 0:43-0:47 sounds like it came out straight from an epic videogame

[CatrinaDaimonLee]

ur voice lessions are as deep as ur music, if i start saving money now i could get one of your keyboards by....maybe before i m 85-90 yrs old? yeah, goals.