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>>73957183
Well, RDJ just released a whole track done with Korg Gear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUT01p-C2xo

He helped them make their latest synthesizer, The Monologue, and one of the features he insisted on was microtuning.

Really cool interview about it:
http://www.factmag.com/2017/07/11/aphex-twin-tatsuya-takahashi-interview/

>>73957183
>microtonal music
Sounds neckbeardy.

>>73957215
thanks, yeah. read the interview which was cool and I'm familiar with RDJ's microtonal work already. I was hoping to hear some other stuff from other artists using a range of different instruments that sounds good.

>>73957219
thanks predictable humor nothing to contribute guy

>>73957248
Sorry, yeah I had a hunch that you were bringing it up because of the recent interview.

I honestly don't know any other artists who rely on microtuning. Perhaps Autechre?

>>73957342
here's some old music from the japanese duo Syzygys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq51rzmD2m8

>>73957183
the old-new King Gizzard album
My Bloody Valentine, actually (tremolo arm bends on every chord strummed for slight wavering in and out of the 'right' pitch)
any slide guitar music
almost any non western music (I enjoy bulgarian folk music on occasion)

>>73957469
haven't really checked out any king gizzard yet, I'll give it a listen later

Do you also believe 432 Hz is life-changing?

>>73957183
this is cool thanks anon! bump for interest

>>73957601
any examples?

>>73957215
The thing is, mostly what he's doing is playing slightly with temperament to detune things a little bit. Microtonality typically involves using novel intervals that aren't normally available. It's not really the same thing. I haven't heard a lot from Aphex that really sounds microtonal.

>>73957342
if you want microtonal IDM this is what you should be listening to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaruOAMtgdc

>>73957469
>My Bloody Valentine, actually (tremolo arm bends on every chord strummed for slight wavering in and out of the 'right' pitch)
any slide guitar music
Don't equate small pitch bends with microtonality

>>73957601
It's horseshit that has nothing to do with microtonal music.

How about some comfy microtonal pop?

https://spectropolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/micropangaea

>>73957465
Love this band. Good rec.

>>73958714
There are a few people with good current releases
https://acreil.bandcamp.com/album/acheiropoietic-ans-tze
https://sevish.bandcamp.com/

Giacinto Scelsi
>invented the genre

>>73958782
Not really, I don't think you could say anyone invented it. Nicola Vicentino was writing in something close to 31 equal in the 16th century. But really all historic temperaments were significantly different from 12 equal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGwjgZ8zIY

>>73957183
It turns out that Aphex really didn't do anything useful to clarify or promote microtonal music with his recent nonsense...

Ben Johnson is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwQxCi6pSEk

and Easley Blackwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbuFPpiJL1o

and Wendy Carlos of course but she gets everything taken down

>>73958850
He doesn't really have to, because it's pointless

>>73958882
No it's not, you obviously don't know the first thing about it.

>>73958916
If you consider an IDM producer a valuable contributor to microtonal music, there's nothing to really talk about.

here are some more good ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_4zr0Qk6o0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fykOw-VY0o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM3cFodNHws

>>73958938
What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Jesus Christ you're retarded. Aphex isn't especially well informed about a lot of things, and he's prone to conspiratorial nonsense. That's obvious. But it's not like someone who makes IDM (other than him) wouldn't be in a good position to do this kind of thing. For the most part it's a blind spot in academia.

>>73958973
>Aphex isn't especially well informed about a lot of things, and he's prone to conspiratorial nonsense.
What are you talking about?

>>73958973
All right, but why aren't other IDM producers who made microtonal music, if there are such, recognized by the academia and why aren't their works analyzed? And what a particular artist personally believes in, may be a factor of not taking them seriously as a person, but that has nothing to do with their music in most cases.

>>73958989
The shit he said in the Korg interview for one thing, he's alluding to the 432 Hz meme. I don't think he's ever done anything like microtonal music anyway, he's just detuning his synths some so it sounds weird.

>>73958938
>Because he doesn't have a degree in music theory, but was in stead enjoyed by a large amount of people and influenced subsequent popular musicians his contributions to a certain type of music don't matter.

That sounds pretty elitist desu senpai

>>73959009
>All right, but why aren't other IDM producers who made microtonal music, if there are such, recognized by the academia and why aren't their works analyzed?
It's not generally something that academia cares about. That's not necessary for it to be important. Virtually the entire microtonal community is self taught DIY stuff. You do your own research. That's how it's been almost the entire time. Academics got hung up on 12 equal forever because muh serialism. They're generally not the authorities on the topic.

>>73959011
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere he does a lot of detuning notes on samplers to make his own scales.

>>73959023
That's not even proper elitist, that's just "I'm insecure as fuck and I want to pretend that the ivory tower elite are the sole gatekeepers for all knowledge". i.e. he started college last year and doesn't know anything about anything.

>>73959048
He certainly does a lot of detuning, but to me it always sounded more or less like random detuning without any novel intervals or anything. And that's fine, and kind of an important part of his sound, he's not Harry Partch or whatever.

more microtonal shit on bandcamp:
https://brendanbyrnes.bandcamp.com/
https://acreil.bandcamp.com/album/agglomeration-and-homothety
https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-xen
https://besaxung.bandcamp.com/

>>73959098
meant for the first link to be this, sorry
https://brendanbyrnes.bandcamp.com/album/neutral-paradise

>>73959023
This is a strawman if I ever saw one.

>>73959034
Who's the authority then? People who sold sold the most records?

>>73959128
No, in this case it's the community that develops the theory.

Basically conventional music theory doesn't apply here at all. You have to work out your own terminology, notation and theory, and it has to be semi standard if you want to communicate it with anyone. But largely the people that do this aren't affiliated with academia.

more microtonal shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0akGtDPVRxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4t5B6nPQGg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpiVphJoL54

comfy no -
but check out Harry Partch
and this more unnerving version of his music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tZamFKyPwM

I like these a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTHLPX-Bd8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ImVLezV4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHHv3mwJTlg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNPCiBY5IZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_63Cc6vPFVI

>>73959333
Do people actually listen to this?

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thanks dudes

>>73958683
>novel intervals
2/3 of the entire world use microtonal tuning...

>>73960240
Is that right?

>>73957183
https://youtube.com/watch?v=q2dMSfmUJec

>>73957183
Turkish folk dude
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGANgDZPj8

https://youtu.be/Tl4_v0aoB2c polychromatic composition by Dolores Catherino