Harmonic Strings - Microtonal musical improvisation

This is an improvisation in the harmonic series scale, a kind of microtonal scale based on a mathematical series. New harmony and tonalities are available in this tuning.

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Music

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• microtonal
• music
• xenharmonic
• harmonic series
• sevish

[mastachang69]

Just a comment of my own... don't go believing you're only scratching the surface of microtonality because you only use limit 7 harmony... while the collection of different chords you can get out of 7limit is smaller than with greater ones, it will always remain what is the farthest in sound from 3 and 5 limit, which make out 11 notes out of 12 from the 12Tet western system (approximatively). From 11 and 13, we're already getting closer to limit 3 harmony because 12 is the 3's 4th harmonic...

[sevishmusic]

@mastachang69 Points well made, something to think about.

[sevishmusic]

Overtones in many instruments occur on the harmonic series. Scales which contain intervals based on the harmonic series feature less clashing with the overtones. It seems to me like we dislike too much of this clashing. Instruments with inharmonic overtones seem to sound better with similarly-inharmonic scales, again because there's less clashing between the scale and the timbre.

[Amadeusfan1]

Ooh, this is an eerie piece. The dissonances are striking. I like how they seem to resolve towards the middle and then come back. This is very well done, yet very different from most of the music I've heard.

[sevishmusic]

@Amadeusfan1 It was fun to perform this. The kind of dissonance offered by the lower pitches of this scale resolve in a satisfying way, I believe.

[TheYoo2b]

@JoshJonesRocks when you have notes based on harmonics, you get notes that are easy to find. if you have a stringed instrument, you fret it half way down to get an octave, 1/3 of the way down to produce the perfect fifth, 1/4 to get the 4th and 1/5 to get the major third. these notes are easy to find and harmonise well so id guess that's why so many cultures use them

some cultures didn't discover the perfect 5th on their own, parts of africa and asia used either 7edo or 16edo

[egggbeen]

@aaaaaaaaaajgvgjyc im looking at scala (freeware) seems pretty tech to install. also look at lil miss scale oven (100bucks) but prob worth the painless install.

[grizzlytomahawk]

What are the names of the new notes?

[Raakim322]

I love this sound

[aaaaaaaaaajgvgjyc]

Uh, I have a mac and I'm interested in microtonal music. Can anyone suggest any free/cheap programs that are easy to use for microtonal composition?