Hidekazu Wakabayashi is a multi-instrumentalist who puts his works on YouTube with lots of incredible visual content! We talk about traditional music, cover songs, brown notes, recycling, the legendary “Iceface tuning” from his dreams, and other instruments. Among those discussed include Tolgahan Çoğulu’s microtonal guitar frets, the fluid piano, non-Western flutes, and fretless guitars. We also figure out who’s best between YouTube and Bandcamp!

Music

Intro: IceFace tuned piano (Microtonal Piano Lucid Fairytale) - H. WakabayashiHorii Kojiro - Hi To Mi (solo shakuhacki)

Inti Illimani - solo de quena 

Within You Without You - The Beatles

Love You To - The Beatles

Wakabayashi - You Are so Microtonal

Blackbird - The Beatles (Wakabayashi cover)

Nen nen korori yo (edo lullaby) - (Wakabayashi cover)

Kagome Kagome - (Wakabayshi cover) 

Calling You - Jevetta Steele (Wakabayashi cover)

Persian Study 1 - Wakabayashi

Outro: Persian Study 2 - Wakabayashi

Links

Hidekazu Wakabayashi’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_CN4tC4aH0YjaIDhOFcjjQ

Video on taping frets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE-sehgOrTY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0QbE8ihzvaCTjNL-GoKoSMIJpRudPzw104O8PZymh4NhgIiUUpU210lSQ

My album track (ft. Wakabayashi): https://xenharmonicgod.bandcamp.com/track/googolplex-edo 

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Sevish and Jacob Barton interview Stephen Weigel about his new absurdist postmodern EDM album, one that pushes the envelope with regards to how complexity is perceived and how tuning systems are defined and used. Topics include speaking vs. writing, xenrhythm, the Bandcamp scene, imaginary divisions of the octave, dog vs. cat people, workflow, exploring new constraints on parameters, support, and how to piss off the right people.

Music

71edo, 72edo, 105edo, 106edo, 204edo, 205edo (🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘)

(π)ed(5ede) (🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘)

Rank-15 tuning (🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘)

1200edo (🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘)

1,000,003-limit Just Intonation (🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘)1200edo (🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘)

Free Ticket to Hell (313edo) - Diamond Doll

$$$ ONE BILLION $$$ (1,000,000,000edo) - Bazil Müzik

Etudes pour piano (I) - György Ligeti

40edo (🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘)

Fort Cindy-Poo! (20edo) - Stephen Weigel

(√-703921)ed(e^τ) starting at 2000 Hz (🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘)

All ed3’s 5-50 (🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘)

All 12 strings of 7L 3s (MOS-MUD) (🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘)

Outro: 40edo (🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘)

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We talk about the microtonal pop duo Syzygys and how they play with Harry Partch’s 43-tone Genesis scale. How do you make music sound interesting when your keyboard has less range than an ocarina? How do you tune a reed organ to 11-limit JI without a computer? Why did György Ligeti almost buy Syzygys’s microtonal keyboard? Find out in this episode!

Music

Intro: D.P.O. - Syzygys 

Bewitched - Harry Partch

And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma - Harry Partch

Syzygy Moon - Syzygys

Classical dan bau - Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre Ensemble (Ha noi, Vietnam 2011)

Dost Dost Diye Hayalına Yeldiğim - Aşık Veysel

Fonce 13 - Syzygys

Fauna Grotesque - Syzygys

Spatial Harmonics - Dolores Catherino

Outro: Furacoco - Syzygys

Links

Syzygys website 

http://www.syzygys.jp/e_pages/index.html

Hitomi Shimizu website 

https://ginkakujipiano.jimdofree.com/

Bandcamp 

https://hitomishimizu.bandcamp.com/

43-tone organ on you tube

https://youtu.be/-Sx5nSfMErg

Otona CD ( You can buy CD from Syzygys website when international mail service resumes)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BQUKO22

Complete Studio Recordings  

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00007J4S0

Eyes On Green - Live At Tokyo Inkstick https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005Q6NB

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Joe Monzo and I talk about lots of tuning theory and memories of events past. Comparisons are made between 37edo (alas! The episode is only 1 away!) and 22edo, as he recently completed a wildly chromatic score of a 37edo piece called “The Kog Sisters.” Joe Monzo came up with many important concepts and has gathered a lot of historical and mathematical information together on his website, initially hosted at sonic-arts, but now on tonalsoft. We talk jazz, Tonescape (lattice software), Musescore, workflow, his book (JustMusic), notation (especially of 37edo), LaMonte Young, the monzo (easy way to write primes which Joe first used in tuning theory), interval lists, high-number EDO’s as measurement tools, and, of course, “breaking the lattice barrier.”    

Music

Intro: Kog Sisters (37edo) - Joe Monzo

Glass Onion (retempered in 22edo by Joe Monzo) - The Beatles

Afrikan Song - Joe Monzo

1000003-limit JI (from 🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘) - Stephen Weigel

Comma pump puzzle - Bendetti

19-tone samba - Joe Monzo

Noiseless Patient Spider (mixed 144edo and JI) - Joe Monzo

Kuh-meah (13-limit JI) - Joe Monzo

Outro: Kraigian (13-limit JI) - Joe Monzo

Check out Joe’s website, Tonescape, and his book (JustMusic)!

New website: http://tonalsoft.com/monzo/worklist/worklist.aspx

Old website: http://tonalsoft.com/sonic-arts/monzo/worklist/worklist.htm

Download Tonescape (lattice software for Windows): http://www.tonalsoft.com/support/tonescape/help/essentials/downloading.aspx

JustMusic (the book): https://books.google.com/books/about/JustMusic.html?id=rbAHtwAACAAJ

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On this episode of Now&Xen, we talk with electronic guru Isaac Schankler about his relationship with microtonality as a composer, reasons to use just intonation or equal temperament, and creative ways to re-tune instruments during performance to mess with expectation. His piece “Alien Warp Etude,” performed by Aaron Kallay, creatively chunks out the 5 + 7 nature of the keyboard with scales a neutral third apart from each other. Be sure to check out the recent album he put out in March to help with the coronavirus, “Songs To Wash Your Hands To!”

Music

Intro: Alien Warp Etude - Isaac Schankler

Rad - Enno Pope

Prologue - Gérard Grisey

Fugitive Objects - Kyle Gann

The Source - Ted Hearne

Ja ṛêvzur (The Moonflower) - Herman Miller

Wash Your Hands - Stephen Weigel

Mystery Curve - An Exciting Event

Microscopic Germs - An Exciting Event/Xenharmonic Praxis

Light and Power (Act II, Scene 4) - Isaac Schankler

Outro: Because Patterns/Deep State - Isaac Schankler

Check out Isaac’s compilation album “Songs to Wash Your Hands To,” and his music!

https://isaacschankler.bandcamp.com/album/songs-to-wash-your-hands-to

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6p42MdIzaIRwgneYbTxiy2?si=z6d0aRe3S2-W4wvoyDBGTQ

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With James Mulvale, we discuss what it’s like to be new to microtonality, working in a DAW and with instruments. We also talk about microtonality in pop music and in the media, creative ideas, and how recent music has been trending towards becoming more microtonal on a variety of levels. James has a new microtonal radio show - be sure to check it out at the link below!

Music

Lucky Numbers - James Mulvale [24edo]

Plans - James Mulvale [19edo]

Headcase - James Mulvale [24edo]

Determined Outcome - Sufjan Stevens [~24edo]

Turquoise Hexagon Sun - Boards of Canada [~24edo]

Avatar - Elaine Walker [16edo]

Cantina Band (from Star Wars) - rendered in many edos by “The Rasa”

Planet of the Apes soundtrack - Jerry Goldsmith

Initialising… (from microwave64) - Microwave

Novemdeca - Zhea Rose [JI]

Rise - James Mulvale [19edo]

De-Void of Re-Incarnation - Stephen Weigel [18edo]

Headcase - James Mulvale [24edo]

Magic Rectangle - Elaine Walker [Bohlen-Pierce]

Death Giving Monolith - Stephen Weigel [7edo]

Backflip - from the Sagittal Songbook [JI]

Outro: Plans - James Mulvale [19edo]

Check out James’s micro-wave radio show!https://tunein.com/radio/Amherst-Island-Radio-921-s91632/

And his music (YT, Bandcamp):https://jamesmulvale.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/JamesMulvale

Other important microtonal Star Wars tunes and microtonal synth wave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t24geQfXTyA

https://microwave64.bandcamp.com/album/microwave

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In this episode, we talk about the instruments of the Shadow Theatre, Anaphoria, and the mysterious Clocks & Clouds. Soar through the sonic sky with us through adventures of storytelling, shadow puppets, standing waves, meta-slendro, metal, wood, sequences, and visual corporeality.

Music

Intro: To Search For a Trace - Clocks and Clouds

US Highball - Harry Partch

Landscapes and Contours - Clocks and Clouds

Wedding Song - Anaphoria

Stolen Stars - Anaphoria

Untitled Love Song - Anaphoria

Drone 86 - Anaphoria

Ceremony at Airports Edge - Anaphoria

Banaphshu Remembers Her Father - Anaphoria

Outro: Shadow Play (The Birds Rout the Demon of Swords) - Anaphoria

Website:

http://www.anaphoria.com/

https://anaphoria.bandcamp.com/

Play with the centaur scale:

https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/?name=&data=21%2F20%0A%209%2F8%0A%207%2F6%0A%205%2F4%0A%204%2F3%0A%207%2F5%0A%203%2F2%0A%2014%2F9%0A%205%2F3%0A%207%2F4%0A%2015%2F8%0A%202%2F1&freq=440&midi=69&vert=5&horiz=1&colors=white%20black%20white%20white%20black%20white%20black%20white%20white%20black%20white%20black&waveform=triangle&env=organ

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We talk with multimedia composer Hunter Ewen about what it’s like to be alive in the 21st century. Microtonality has lots of potential to be used as a temporal flag, to highlight a sense of off-ness, and to expand the sonic world which we inhabit. We also answer questions such as: how does the presentation of music, and/or extra-musical factors, affect the way we perceive it? And just how many times can we mention John Cage in a single episode?

Music

Intro: Venom, Consumption, and Saturation - Hunter Ewen

Venom, Consumption, and Saturation - Hunter Ewen

Atlas Eclipticalis - John Cage

Ultradian Bipolar Disorder - Hunter Ewen

Red River Folk Tale - Hunter Ewen

Monkey Mind - Hunter Ewen

TV Köln - John Cage

LEDpaint (pluck) - Hunter Ewen

LEDpaint (chime) - Hunter Ewen

LEDpaint (bow) - Hunter Ewen

LEDpaint (ride) - Hunter Ewen

LEDpaint (bang) - Hunter Ewen

LEDpaint (invert) - Hunter Ewen

Outro: Hunger Dreams in Flocks - Hunter Ewen

Website: http://www.hunterewen.com/main.html

http://www.ledpaint.info/

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Join us for an exciting episode with the founder of UnTwelve, Aaron Krister Johnson! We talk about why Facebook sucks, early music, methods of music composition, and computers/artificial intelligence. We also figure out Aaron’s secret identity in ambient music…

Join the UnTwelve tuning list for great conversations about microtonality away from Facebook!http://lists.untwelve.org/listinfo.cgi/tuning-discuss-untwelve.org

Music

Intro: Lydian Dance/Phrygian Neutral Dance [17edo]

Etude in neutral sixths - Aaron Johnson [17edo]

Puhlops & Laugua - Aaron Johnson [17edo]

Etude in neutral sixths - Aaron Johnson [17edo]

Alleluia - Aaron Johnson (Xenharmonic New Music Showcase) [17edo]

Missa de Sancto Donatiano - Jacob Obrecht (The Tallis Scholars) [meantone]

Pavane for lute - John Dowland (Paul O’Dette) [meantone]

10 fantasy - Aaron Johnson [10edo]

For Juhani - Aaron Johnson [7edo]

Snow in April - Aaron Johnson [23edo]

(Googolplex)edo (from 🎧👂🔜🖤💗📛🎲🎰🎮🥇🚴🌫👂👂💘) - Stephen Weigel

Abstraction #1 - Aaron Johnson [23edo]

Abstraction #2 - Aaron Johnson [23edo]

Agnus Dei (Missa L’homme Armé super voces musicales) - Josquin des Prés

Bach style fugue - Well-Programmed Clavier & David Cope [meantone]

the astral portal to the general buzz - filtercreed [5-limit JI]

No Reply from Sector 5 - filtercreed [subharmonics]

Cloud Zone Alpha Prime - filtercreed

Echo Pastorale - Aaron Johnson [31edo]

The Juggler - Aaron Johnson [19edo]

Outro: Emperor Wu’s Opium Den - filtercreed [5edo] 

Socials/Projects:

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aaron-krister-johnson

Bandcamp: https://aaronkristerjohnson.bandcamp.com/

Filtercreed: https://soundcloud.com/filtercreed

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Microtonal choral music is exciting and intense! Robert Lopez-Hanshaw premiered a piece in 72-tone equal temperament featuring the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, “vokas animo,” which we talk about here! We explore techniques to train the average choir in singing microtones, out of contexts that use guide-tracks or expert performers. Discover why we need more repertoire that accomplishes this feat.

Music

Intro: vokas animo - Robert Lopez-Hanshaw

Alleluia - Aaron Kister Johnson

Outro: vokas animo - Robert Lopez-Hanshaw

Socials/Projects:

Robert Lopez-Hanshaw: https://www.lopezhanshaw.com/

New Music Box articles: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/the-journey-in-performing-microtonal-choral-music-part-1/

https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/getting-your-hands-dirty-performing-microtonal-choral-music-part-2/

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