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New song using scales based on similar note "character"

🔗Michael Sheiman <djtrancendance@...>

6/17/2008 7:52:54 AM

http://www.myspace.com/spectrafloor

    I have a new song "Sutra-ted" up that is an organic sounding, ambient/break-beat.  So hopefully it will prove an easy listen even to those more into the orchestral side of music...and yet it's still energetic enough to dance to.

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   The first melody uses 12-tone...but then the second and third switch into two separate 9-note scales designed for 1) mostly odd and 2) mostly even overtone based instruments...each based on 41-TET tuning. 
   The amazing thing is just how many people have told me they thought the 2nd and 3rd
scales were normal and
the first was micro-tonal (when the opposite is what happens in the song).

   Those of you who have been participating on the forums about which frequencies have the same "character", rather than just which ones fall far/close enough to avoid the 1/2 critical band point of highest dissonance...I think this song's get pretty damn close to solving the problem. :-) 
   I can also post the scales used here for those who are interested...if you want them just ask.

-Michael




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