It's interesting and it seems to come up every few years on YouTube. It's cool in principle, the idea of new things like the super major and so on, but I've never heard one thing worth listening to come out of it. Not really.
I don't think so anyway. There might be ambient track that made use of microtonal well. Not sure, might have. But there's a reason Western harmony went the way it did and not that way. And it's not just cultural conditioning. It's something hard wired about what makes sense and where the action is, and excluding where the action isn’t.
You might also be interested in the Turkish classical music makam system, which divides the octave into 53 (another prime number) equal intervals known as commas. The wikipedia article is pretty good.
What's your opinion of it? Turkish makam has too many divisions for me - extremely microtonal music like this generally sounds to me like 12 EDO with flourishes, but given the popularity of 31 EDO most people interested in xen scales are obviously going to be interested in scales like 53 EDO, along with 22, 24, and even Carlos Alpha 15.3856 EDO.
I only play fretted instruments so I can't really do the commas, and I'm not sure my ear is always good enough to hear the subtle differences. When I listen to that kind of music I'm subliminally aware that it's not a tempered scale but I don't notice that, e.g., one scale degree is slightly off. What's also interesting is that they don't use all 53 theoretical pitches, only about 24 (well chosen) of them.
Hey, you play music? That's rad, what kind of songs do you like?
My general sense of microtonal music is that composers seldom use all available notes, just as 12-EDO songs are typically restricted to the seven notes of a major/minor scale. So I'm not surprised Turkish makam is usually restricted to 24 - even that is actually quite a few, and obviously more than are even possible in the 19-EDO I'm interested in.
I've listened to a few of the songs I can find on YouTube, but it mostly just sounds, well, "Turkish." Do you have any recommendations?
It's interesting and it seems to come up every few years on YouTube. It's cool in principle, the idea of new things like the super major and so on, but I've never heard one thing worth listening to come out of it. Not really.
I don't think so anyway. There might be ambient track that made use of microtonal well. Not sure, might have. But there's a reason Western harmony went the way it did and not that way. And it's not just cultural conditioning. It's something hard wired about what makes sense and where the action is, and excluding where the action isn’t.
You might also be interested in the Turkish classical music makam system, which divides the octave into 53 (another prime number) equal intervals known as commas. The wikipedia article is pretty good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_makam
What's your opinion of it? Turkish makam has too many divisions for me - extremely microtonal music like this generally sounds to me like 12 EDO with flourishes, but given the popularity of 31 EDO most people interested in xen scales are obviously going to be interested in scales like 53 EDO, along with 22, 24, and even Carlos Alpha 15.3856 EDO.
I only play fretted instruments so I can't really do the commas, and I'm not sure my ear is always good enough to hear the subtle differences. When I listen to that kind of music I'm subliminally aware that it's not a tempered scale but I don't notice that, e.g., one scale degree is slightly off. What's also interesting is that they don't use all 53 theoretical pitches, only about 24 (well chosen) of them.
Hey, you play music? That's rad, what kind of songs do you like?
My general sense of microtonal music is that composers seldom use all available notes, just as 12-EDO songs are typically restricted to the seven notes of a major/minor scale. So I'm not surprised Turkish makam is usually restricted to 24 - even that is actually quite a few, and obviously more than are even possible in the 19-EDO I'm interested in.
I've listened to a few of the songs I can find on YouTube, but it mostly just sounds, well, "Turkish." Do you have any recommendations?