Bad Henkings comments

People on the tuning list maybe interested in the fact that the Bad Henkings piece has been in the top 10 for several days

http://alonetone.com/

and has gathered a lot of positive comments - from the 12 edo community www.alonetone.com !!

read comments here:

http://alonetone.com/alisterflint/tracks/bad-henkings-cvaisvil-cserafini-aflint

I'm not saying we are great or anything

What I am saying - is I'm really surprised at the reception from the 12 edo community - and maybe we should figure out why it worked.

Chris

And I'm going to plug this as well

check out this awesome poly-micro-tuning piece my Sevish on Not Only Music
http://notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=456

One obvious thing:

The arrangement is brilliant. The beat flows very smoothly and lightly, the
horns are otherworldly, and the hollow-sounding high drums and ambient fluttery
sounds in the background make it even more surreal sounding. Since everything
shouts "abstract!"...the use of odd tones almost comes across as predictable and
interpretable, "even" for 12TET music lovers, apparently.
Many listeners called the song things like "comforting", "scattered samples",
"night driving", "the beat pulls the song in and out"...all which seem to allude
to the "predictable abstractness" of the piece. Especially the part about the
beat pulling the song along (I agree 200% with what Sevish has implied several
times; a smooth beat can really help guide listeners through less-than-normal
tunings and melodies).

I'd love to make a guess about the tunings but....Gamma is a HUGE tuning and
adding 19 and 12 EDO along to it mean you can get virtually any chord within a
few cents...and I'm guessing, in that case of "unlimited possibilities" it comes
down to the composers having great ears to choose between the ridiculous amount
of harmonies available.
I'm not recommending the average musician try something that daunting (which
may cause a sense of hopeless frustration and eventually giving up)...but
agreeing that, in this case, that seems to be exactly what has been done.

One thing is for sure: I think there's HUGE potential for microtonal in
chill-out break-beat music...particularly songs with a 3AM type rave vibe that
shouts "mystery and flow".

Awesome work and keep it up!

1/1
6/5
5/4
7/5
3/2
8/5
7/4
9/5
2/1 (period/octave)

This actually gives only one alternative fifth I'd consider bad (a 14/9
between 9/5 and 7/5 on the next octave) and makes for several low-limit
major-ish triads. I purposefully did not try to force anything the be space
evenly IE around 9/8 to 12/11 as I wanted to open my mind to see what's possible
when I give up trying to enable new chords using neutral seconds and instead
concentrate on other things. So what do you think?