Electro-swing in 15 equal temperament...just because.
https://soundcloud.com/jonlylesmith/want-to-swing-extended-electro-version
Want to Swing
15 equal temperament:
0: 0.000 cents
1: 80.000 cents
2: 160.000 cents
3: 240.000 cents
4: 320.000 cents
5: 400.000 cents
6: 480.000 cents
7: 560.000 cents
8: 640.000 cents
9: 720.000 cents
10: 800.000 cents
11: 880.000 cents
12: 960.000 cents
13: 1040.000 cents
14: 1120.000 cents
15: 2/1
Best, jlsmith
Want to Swing (extended electro version)Moderators: Christophe, Mark
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Re: Want to Swing (extended electro version)I'm all for experimenting. BUT...
I don't know how to articulately express thoughts about this one... or any other one that uses weird tuning. To a human ear, that just sounds out of tune, and I keep picturing this in my head: To me, this is not a music for normal listening, something that I'd personally put on my player, kick back and do something while this nicely played in the background. I also can't imagine why would someone make music that would sound seriously out of tune to everyone else... unless it's for experimenting, but you have about 30 of them, it's past the experimenting point. You basically have 3 albums of them. So, my question is, I guess... why? What's the point in making music that people generally won't listen to? Do you go from yourself as an artistic person and ask "Does this sound good to me?" I think I'd really like to hear the reason behind music like this. Not trying to bash it or anything, I'll just honestly say that it's not for my tastes, but tastes differ and it's just me (and DaZoid, apparently), so someone else might like it. But I'm specifically wondering about your musical approach to something that sounds like this. Does it sound out of tune for you as well? SoundCloud ::: Facebook
Re: Want to Swing (extended electro version)Ah...(Jon smiles quietly to himself)
My "xenharmonic" (strange or foreign-sounding) pieces are definitely for niche audiences. I don't think ANYTHING I've composed would find a wide audience; but then again, that's not a concern for me. I like exploring the fringes of consonance/dissonance in this way. "Want to Swing" is less dissonant to me than most music with distorted electric guitars -- which are physically painful to listen to, what with their screaming volume and unharmonic overtones; yet people crank the volume and listen to that s**t until their ears bleed, and still call it "music" they "love". Go figure. I've composed a lot of stuff -- 5 albums, actually, and many odds and ends -- and I do so because I like to. I've wanted to find the pitches "between" the cracks of the 12 equal temperament keyboard for a long time, but lacked the means until the last few years. Orion was one of the first softwares that permitted this. "Out-of-tune" is the point, sometimes; other times, it's just stretching the boundaries of what the ear (or the mind) of the listener will accept. On the other hand, I've got pieces in a neo-classical style that use non-equal tunings to good effect, nice and smooth and harmonious. Not much of an audience for that, either. I'm not really "into" creating background music, though one of my albums is *exactly* that (I'll link below). I prefer to create music that demands active participation in the listener. I appreciate the time you took to listen & your comments & questions; I wish you greater success in your musical acceptance than my own. And I just love the picture, btw. Here is the link to my album of "background" music, with no weird tunings. I think you'll find it insipid yet soporific, and generally inoffensive: https://archive.org/details/Music_for_Elevators Thanks & all my best, jlsmith
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