Zhea Erose - Timelessness [just intonation]

"How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"

This is a mostly improvised piece for 2 pianos. I recorded the initial layer back in December. I was re-listening and heard such possibilities for a second piano voice. The piece is composed in my undecimal [12] with superfourth scale. This is the third piece with the tuning: Spiritualistica, Eurybia, and now Timelessness.

I keep coming back to this scale because it's so simple, elegant, easy to play, and has so much potential for emergent sonic phenomenon. The gestalt of this system creates strange resonances, ghost tones, buzzing, pulsing, and seems to alter the timbre of piano into a chime-like metallophone. The 11:15 has kept its place as my favorite interval for a few months now. It's so unlike anything I had heard prior to finding it. It's amazing how it's only 14 cents away from the 8:11 yet sounds absolutely nothing like it. 11:14:15 is a very powerful triad.

Undecimal [12] with superfourth
22:23:25:26:28:30:31:33:35:37:39:42:44
0: 1/1 0.0
1: 23/22 76.9
2: 25/22 221.3
3: 13/11 289.2
4: 14/11 417.5
5: 15/11 536.9
6: 31/22 593.7
7: 3/2 701.9
8: 35/22 803.8
9: 37/22 900.0
10: 39/22 991.1
11: 21/11 1119.4
12: 2/1 1200.0

video footage is some of my footage and free to use footage

[Meatmallet]

I obsess over clocks, clockwork, music boxes, automaton, concepts of time and sound and life and how they all tie together. This is like a soundtrack of my imagination. I love it!

[glfriendliness]

excellent to smoke out to. dayum. chillin'.

[adamfreese]

Gorgeous and genuinely soul-soothing music. Thanks for writing this; I really needed to hear this music today.

[perdifoil]

i adore it, the fluttering arpeggios with the backbone of the lower register, and how it just morphs and breathes on its own... and the magic of alternate temperaments blew my mind with eurybia, reducing me to tears and opening new musical doors for me. here it's so gentle, and healing. ♡

[stephenweigel]

This is wonderful, as all your music is - took me to another plane of existence

[psychedelicspider]

Not sure if you'll read this, but we can all agree that your work is one of a kind, it's priceless and thought provoking. One starts listening with their ears but ends up listening with their hearts. This is precious, and timeless, pun totally intended ❤️🔥 you're a mentor.

[amyashlyn]

It's beautiful 😍 I can't get over how different the piano sounds with just intonation. The resonance sounds so bright, so many more partials popping out.

[loisjones]

Z, I think it captures a little of Einstein’s concept of time being a dimension. It is pretty universally accepted, but we humans of course only feel that flow of time. This piece brings to mind the thought “what if we could experience the passage of time like a snapshot” Literally, everything that ever was, is and will be is recorded in the timestream. In a strange non metaphysical way, we are all immortal.

[FunielAudio]

Wow! This is amazingly played and amazingly tuned :D Never heard of just intonation before but now I really gotta put some research into non-western tunings and all those microtonal scales :o

[indiraj]

Could listen to this forever - stunning!

[febilogi]

I really need to hear this in my life. So meditative and divine. Thanks for sharing your work here in youtube, Z. I hope you are doing well there.

[cobaltfriday]

So lovely. Thanks for sharing and God bless

[Sillu]

I really love the rationed interval sounds perfect as can be. <3

[MC_Fractal]

This is wonderful. Z, your music and work on voice alteration have opened up a vast universe of sound previously unknown to me as I work on feminizing my voice. I increasingly find a simple twelve-note scale less and less interesting over…time, pun intended, however groanworthy it may be.

[burkhardstackelberg]

This is real beauty. Lush sounds - and I love the unusual harmonies as well as the beating consonances.

[joelmanthis]

Great googly moogly, where in this Scale is the 11:15 Interval you described?

Your description has left me with questions, I don't see the 11:15 or the 8:11 you referenced as being separated by 14 cents and I don't know why because you mentioned that this Scale is simple but ironically I find myself confused. Please help me.

[JonathanStraker-xhbb]

Beautiful mystical music, so inspiring.❤

[ImprovUnedited]

Oh my this is gorgeous and special! My ear has been craving this like you have no idea. Want to collaborate.

[markscanlon]

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