Flymo
July 23, 2023, 9:26am
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Just stumbled on this microtonal synth fest and I love it.
It’s made me realise I’d love to find more great microtonal music that…
(1) Actually has some musicality, tension/resolution, rather than a complete mess.
(2) Isn’t made by Aphex Twin.
(3) Sits outside of non-western musical traditions (ie not looking for middle Eastern music, or things that try to copy it).
Is there a search term, blog, Spotify playlist, Reddit or similar that I should be hunting in?
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not microtonal electronic theremin jazz but still… you know.
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Check out Sevish, he makes microtonal music:
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whim
July 23, 2023, 1:45pm
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La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano, Just Stompin’, … [many other works]
Terry Riley - Shri Camel, Descending Moonshine Dervishes
VIDEO
Ben Johnston - String Quartets 2-10 (played by Kepler Quartet), Suite for Microtonal Piano, … [many other works]
Harry Partch - US Highball, And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma, … [many other works]
Easley Blackwood - 12 Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media
Syzygys - Otona, … [other works]
Horse Lords - …
And to repeat what @monomatik said, Sevish - … [many albums]
Electronic music with unusual intonation.
Bass, beats, atmospheres, wonky melodies.
Creator of Scale Workshop tuning software.
Founder of split-notes microtonal netlabel.
Linux + Bitwig user.
Fractal head.
Just want to make more music, so thanks for...
[EDIT: adding:]
Kyle Gann - Hyperchromatica, … [various other works]
Hyperchromatica | Kyle Gann | Other Minds Records .
https://kylegann.com/Gannaudio.html
Also, to address the original post, not just title— i’d recommend searching Bandcamp for tags such as “microtonal”, “xenharmonic”, “just intonation”
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Claid
July 23, 2023, 2:33pm
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I was going to post some King Gizz but you beat me to it. Incredible band, on record and live.
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I really like all of the crumbling castle material, polygondwanaland I guess. and gumboot soup.
but I don’t like these albums because they’re microtonal, I like them because they’re indicative of some of the band’s best material.
I would not personally choose to listen to something specifically and only because it exclusively featured microintervals, I would choose to listen to something because it was good, regardless of the genre or artist.
just like how I would take a hard pass on content which is not good, even from the same artists.
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whim
July 23, 2023, 2:47pm
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is great— FYI, I think their only “fully”-microtonal albums so far are:
Flying Microtonal Banana
K.G.
L.W.
… although there could be some other scattered tracks
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As you are already talking about King Gizz I have to drop their best (for me) song (microtonal, of course):
VIDEO
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Claid
July 23, 2023, 3:22pm
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shigginpit:
I really like all of the crumbling castle material, polygondwanaland I guess. and gumboot soup.
but I don’t like these albums because they’re microtonal, I like them because they’re indicative of some of the band’s best material.
Same, and for the same reasons. It’s just solid music. I love Crumbling Castle, such a unique and powerful piece of prog. I was lucky enough to catch them performing this in London a few years back.
Choosing to listen to specifically microtonal music is a bit like seeking music written only in the Phrygian mode.
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Flymo
July 23, 2023, 3:38pm
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Thanks all. Should have said I love King Gizzard, I think that set me off on this a few days ago.
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m0ld
July 23, 2023, 5:38pm
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shigginpit:
I really like all of the crumbling castle material, polygondwanaland I guess. and gumboot soup.
but I don’t like these albums because they’re microtonal, I like them because they’re indicative of some of the band’s best material.
This comment got me to finally check out KGLW. Just finished Polygondwanaland. It’s fantastic prog. I’m not a prog person by any means but I really enjoyed it.
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I’m glad I was able to bring something new and positive into your spectrum of awareness, and I hope you continue to enjoy it!
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