Exclusive Patron Music Files: Modal Studies in Tetracot - Piano Improvisation
Added 2021-07-11 14:00:05 +0000 UTCPatron Exclusive: downloadable files to all of these improvisations are attached.
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I've been enjoying playing in 34neji or 34edo lately. I play a tetracot mapping. This makes it so the "home row" key of my keyboard is a 6L1s scale type. It sounds nothing like the modes of Western pop and classical music. The first mode has a flat major second, a neutral third, a superfourth, perfect fifth, submajor 6, and neutral 7. This scale and its modes really challenge my ears and have exposed me to a lot of new structures. I decided to record a short improvisation in each mode of this scale.
The 7 modes of Tetracot [7] rendered via 34-edo Full Interval Matrix:
I II III IV V VI VII
0.0 : 176.5 352.9 529.4 705.9 882.4 1058.8 1200.0
176.5 : 176.5 352.9 529.4 705.9 882.4 1023.5 1200.0
352.9 : 176.5 352.9 529.4 705.9 847.1 1023.5 1200.0
529.4 : 176.5 352.9 529.4 670.6 847.1 1023.5 1200.0
705.9 : 176.5 352.9 494.1 670.6 847.1 1023.5 1200.0
882.4 : 176.5 317.6 494.1 670.6 847.1 1023.5 1200.0
1058.8: 141.2 317.6 494.1 670.6 847.1 1023.5 1200.0
my general thoughts on them
1st Mode - Ryonian: most similar to lydian but its superfourth and neutral
176.5 352.9 529.4 705.9 882.4 1058.8 1200.0
2nd Mode - Mixoryonian: functionally similar to mixolydian 176.5 352.9 529.4 705.9 882.4 1023.5 1200.0
3rd Mode - Azurian: similar to Aeolian. Non-minor, much brighter, n6th stands out. 176.5 352.9 529.4 705.9 847.1 1023.5 1200.0
4th Mode - Locrial: similar in energy to locrian. 176.5 352.9 529.4 670.6 847.1 1023.5 1200.0
5th Mode - Ionial: similar in energy to ionian except warbly fifth and less 3 - 7 clash 176.5 352.9 494.1 670.6 847.1 1023.5 1200.0
6th Mode - Duradian: really nice. minor9n13 dorian-esque functionally. warbly fifth. 176.5 317.6 494.1 670.6 847.1 1023.5 1200.0
7th Mode - Phyradian: amazing scale. intensely bright and concordant phyrgian energy 141.2 317.6 494.1 670.6 847.1 1023.5 1200.0
Comments
Yaaay! I love theseπ Breaking us out of the western 12 tone totalitarianism we live under.
Amy Ashlyn
2021-07-12 18:40:13 +0000 UTCThis is all so interesting. I know you're almost constantly caught up with teaching trans voice and even when not you want some time to breathe too, but would you consider at some point in the near future also teaching microtonal music theory/composition/etc?
Tamar Feiner
2021-07-11 14:07:00 +0000 UTC
