QUARTERTONE MUSIC

i wonder:

if someone was raised to this music, how would whole-tone music sound to them?

this is scary

>>55180478
so thats like a really unique piano? they dont actually make those very often right?

i thought quarter steps were found mostly in eastern music.

I want a Xenharmonic guitar so bad

>>55180638
correct

>>55180573
I believe Indian music uses quarter-tones.

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>>55180478
this is wonderful

got any more?

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also known as "microtonal"

some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHI2xyyH-CU
(microtonal melodies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3FZkQTn51o
(microtonal pop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0akGtDPVRxk#t=107
(microtonal keyboard piece from 1555)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ImVLezV4c
(31 tone organ piece)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esvdSie_H4c
(Microtonal trills in the solo line)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYK_PF9WTRE
(turkish maqams)

turkish arabic, indian, bulgarian and balinese music is a wealth of microtones, as well as any non-autotuned vocal part: the voice naturally slides between notes creating microtonal inflections, something I've been trying to capture in this flute piece I'm writing...

also pic related is a great example of microtonal writing.

This is cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRw9fCQIn6Q

sounds pretty shit tbh

>>55180997
>muh 12TET ears

indoctrinated m8

>>55181123
i like some arab and indian music that uses quartertone and stuff, but this people have a lot of more experience with using them and they're doing it much better.

>>55180478
spooky. very interesting.
don't think i've ever heard anything quite like that.

>>55180478
Also, it reminds me a lot of listening to a piano etude while on psychedelics.

>>55180478
This is incredibly unsettling

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>>55181412
solutions for notating microtones

>>55180891
Wow, these are cool

How do you make microtonal sounds on a digital level. I've been trying to find a way to for a while.

>>55180573
I think there would just be longer intervals as compared to what they were used to

>>55181596
fine tune your notes.

every DAW should have a fine pitch or channel pitch that you can automate. Its measured in cents. 100 cents is a semitone (1 fret) 200 cents is a whole tone (2 frets). anything less is microtonal.

so you could choose a microtonal scale that had:

A
B
C (Sharp 25 cents)
D
F# (flat 25 cents)
G

then just stick to that scale for your piece. or change to a new scale.

the other option is just to microtonally tune random notes to you ears content

>>55180638
presumably you could theoretically tune any normal piano to be like this (although it might not be good for it)