New City Of The Asleep Album preview

Igs just released this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUcgt1pc91A&feature=youtu.be

This sounds like it's going to be unbelievably epic.

-Mike

Igs' new album is out now.

Transcendissonance - A genre-defying odyssey searching out the hidden beauty in the most dissonant tunings known to man.

http://www.split-notes.com/007/
http://cityoftheasleep.bandcamp.com/album/transcendissonance

Pick either website, download, enjoy ;)

-Sean

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...> wrote:
>
> Igs just released this:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUcgt1pc91A&feature=youtu.be
>
> This sounds like it's going to be unbelievably epic.
>
> -Mike
>

But this is extraordinary!
==
MLV aka Manu Phonic

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "sevishmusic" <sevish@...> wrote:
>
> Igs' new album is out now.
>
> Transcendissonance - A genre-defying odyssey searching out the hidden beauty in the most dissonant tunings known to man.
>
> http://www.split-notes.com/007/
> http://cityoftheasleep.bandcamp.com/album/transcendissonance
>
> Pick either website, download, enjoy ;)
>
> -Sean
>
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@> wrote:
> >
> > Igs just released this:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUcgt1pc91A&feature=youtu.be
> >
> > This sounds like it's going to be unbelievably epic.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
>

A monumental, knowledge-based empirical chiselling effort coming to
fruition by our very own Jason (Igliashon). I find the clarity of his
intellectual and artistic approach in regards the pragmatic utilization
of tunings toward electro-acoustic xentonal music production most
demonstrative of the futility of "holy grail theories" that flood the
scene hereabouts.

Although we do not see eye to eye with Jason, I rather enjoyed him
demolishing what he righteously calls "psycho-acoustic theories of
consonance" directly irrelevant to good music-making via this evocative
microtonal album. He is ABSOLUTELY correct that music on the whole (or
in enormous part otherwise) requires the balanced tension between
consonance-dissonance (or as Monz would prefer: concordance-discordance)
where each chosen scale provides a whole new soundscape for
compositional discovery.

I too have been propounding a similar stance for so very long, given
that no Western traditional Pythagorist or JI-sprouting notion of
"purities and consonances" can account for the "unorthodox" charms of
"makamlar" that defy so many known or dictated Eurocentric rules
concerning music theory.

I would like to suggest the term: "transcordance" by inspiration from
the name of the Album "Transcendissonance", to signify the spirit of
discovery of good music trancending the suffocating faddish theories out
there clouding the senses. Compare with "ambissonance" by Cris Forster,
emphasizing the "mixture/ambivalance of both worlds".

Cordially,
Dr. Oz. (who is now also an Associate Professor in Musicology and Music
Theories)

--

✩ ✩ ✩
www.ozanyarman.com

sevishmusic wrote:
> Igs' new album is out now.
>
> Transcendissonance - A genre-defying odyssey searching out the hidden beauty in the most dissonant tunings known to man.
>
> http://www.split-notes.com/007/
> http://cityoftheasleep.bandcamp.com/album/transcendissonance
>
> Pick either website, download, enjoy ;)
>
> -Sean
>
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Mike Battaglia<battaglia01@...> wrote:
>> Igs just released this:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUcgt1pc91A&feature=youtu.be
>>
>> This sounds like it's going to be unbelievably epic.
>>
>> -Mike
>>
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Dr Oz wrote:

>Although we do not see eye to eye with Jason, I rather enjoyed him
>demolishing what he righteously calls "psycho-acoustic theories of
>consonance" directly irrelevant to good music-making via this evocative
>microtonal album.

The album is good, but it does no such thing.

-Carl

Dr Oz wrote:

>Although we do not see eye to eye with Jason, I rather enjoyed him

>demolishing what he righteously calls "psycho-acoustic theories of

>consonance" directly irrelevant to good music-making via this evocative

>microtonal album.

Tyrant #2 :D wrote:
>The album is good, but it does no such thing.

Peon #3 writes,
   Jason/Igs is so good with phrasing, crisp/textures and production, making a predictable flow of tension, and ripping out guitar solos he manages to sound fairly confident and non-vague despite his tricky choice of scales.  But the typical response I get from some of his "dissonance scale-based" type work when other people walk by my room (or office at lunchtime) is "hey, that's pretty cool" followed by "but kinda hard to listen to...please turn it way down".
  So while what he does is impressive, I don't think it breaks down consonance theories by any means.  Jason uses his "9-rated" compositional skill to work with "2-rated" scales to make "6-rated" songs...and while this is impressive, it's not going to fool many people at all into thinking his songs with such scales are "8+ rated".

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