These Microtonal Intervals Sound Amazing!

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Greater undecimal minor second? Tridecimal Neutral third? Ninety-seventh harmonic? Acute minor sixth? Septimal supermajor seventh? What are all of these things? How can we use microtonal harmony effectively? How to microtonal? I dont know, but let's try and figure it out, one music theory experiment at a time!

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[stephenweigel]

I really wanted that song to continue lol

[Jib_]

beautiful! more people should mess with microtonality

[Eryktion]

wow the drop was massive! I thought it'll stay in this low-fi vibe, but then 🤯 ... and I LOVE IT!
Can I get the full track somewhere?

[harry]

This is a great video! I’ve never seen your content before, it’s just popped up on my recommended. I like that it’s got more substance than just a standard short, and it’s widescreen!

[munsterduck]

I like it and I think this could be a cool series, just wish the song displayed a bit more harmony. Feels like you played 2 chords at the end and the rest was somewhat dissonant ambience because it was obscured by so much extra stuff. I love your content, keep up the good work.

P.S. Sound off if I'm wrong here.

[IBHID]

I can't deny I thought it would be a version of '34 Ghosts IV' by Nine Inch Nails or Old Town Road when I heard the first few notes. 😅 Amazing sounds!

[forrcaho]

Shoot, I saw "septimal supermajor" and got all excited, then I remembered it's the septimal supermajor _third_ that's the cool one ...

[HenryHobson-ucbk]

I dont know what to make of that🙂🤣
I did some experiments with copper brass and steel rattles, and putting the recorded signal though a vox bass filter. The results blew me away, not only because the "notes" were microtonal but also because there appeared no predictable pattern or sequence using a regular rattled rhythm, sometimes it would pump out the same note for quite a while, then all of a sudden jump about in a flurry of beautiful microtonal colours, with beautifully random chord changes. More recntly I've been experimenting with a nord drum 1 synth, can get very similar microtonal colouring using the pitch wheel in real time

[eboone]

35/18 is the septimal semidiminished octave. 27/14 is the septimal supermajor seventh

[growskull]

i think if you made a whole album like this (with the same set of notes for each song), by the end it'd sound normal especially if ut was a 2xCD

[humaninme]

I love this... more people should see this

[gabeleneveu]

This was super cool, I really wish there was more JI youtube content- thanks for making some more!
I will say though that I think the visualizations of the ratios might be confusing because they didn't always match the ratio mentioned in the description of the interval. That was a mouthful, but what I mean is that 81:50 isn't the same as 21:13, and even though they probably sound nearly identical- it could be confusing to see that if you're just learning about ratio jargon hahaha. I'm sure this was probably just scale workshop approximating ratios to fit within a 23 limit system but I think it would be worth adjusting for clarity!
anywho, thanks again for making this and sharing microtonal stuff in such an accessible way (ps, HEJI notation is sexier than johnston and would probably be better clickbait <3 )

[ConvincingPeople]

The really high prime harmonics and derived intervals get incredibly strange and spicy. I recommend playing around with 59/48 as it lands squarely between 27/22 and 16/13 in a way which allows you to access really close approximations of a bunch of 7, 11 and 13-limit intervals if you just stack fourths or fifths on it.

[misterguy]

I seldom use 12EDO nowadays easy to use ancient temperaments which sound way better. Also wrestling once in a while with non-octave systems.. (seldom do I use 4/4 as well).

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So... basically a professional playing with middle school band tuning

[originalname]

I genuenly love what you do, AND THATS A STATEMENT !

BTW how did you get those awsome audiograms at the start of the video ?

[meinteybergen]

Cool video! One small tip for the sound, you might want to use a de-esser on your voice, sometimes its a bit sharp!

[iau]

I think using just one of these per track may be a great start as to not sound so alienating.

[Alexander-ohry]

I think its not microtonal anymore when the result almost sounds like 12tet, especially when you pick intervalls that closely mathe 12-tet intervals

[lambda]

Sounds like a Bjork song lol (i love bjork)