Making Microtonal Music (in 15edo)

If you’d like to support me and get bonus music, I’m on Patreon!: The best way to support my music is by downloading it from Bandcamp! Thanks so much for listening! Support me by buying some music, for as much or as little as you like!: Check out my music on Spotify! A demonstration of the sorts of techniques I might use when writing a microtonal piece of music, in 15 equal divisions of the octave tuning. An expansion of the finished track can be heard here: I tried to focus on getting a xenharmonic sound out of the tuning whilst utilising elements of regular tonal music to retain some familiarity. A great way to do this is to use familiar intervals in unfamiliar ways, or unfamiliar intervals in familiar ways, to distort the listener’s perception. A perfect example of this is the minor 6 chord used in this track, which in 15edo has a top interval which sounds like a confusing blend between a major 6th and minor 7th, adding a novelty and unexpectedness to the chord which we might call the ’xen sound’. Apologies that the sound quality isn’t perfect, seems OBS is applying its own compression to the audio which makes the bassline come across a bit gravelly. I’ll try to fix this in future. 0:00 - Intro 0:40 - Bassline 3:53 - Reaper’s Customisable Piano Roll 5:09 - An Ambiguous Chord 7:49 - Arpeggiated Chords 12:14 - Xenharmonic Dominant Chords 16:02 - Some Drums 18:18 - Porcupine Intervals 23:17 - Writing The Lead 30:28 - Final Words 35:45 - Finished Track /