Amelia Huff - "Departure" (Improvisation in 31-EDO, Lumatone Artist Series)

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  • Опубліковано 7 тра 2023
  • Amelia Huff (‪@ZheannaErose‬) is back for the Lumatone Artist Series with another microtonal improvisation, this one being in 31-EDO. Filmed live in Indiana. In this piece, Amelia pays homage to a previous piece of work called "Arrival." Stay tuned for more full performances and interviews with inspiring artists as part of the new Lumatone Artist Series!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 72

  • @mopishlynx2323
    @mopishlynx2323 8 місяців тому +105

    I want to go back in time and show this to Bach

    • @filmlets
      @filmlets 7 місяців тому +21

      "bro i spent my fucking entire lifetime trying to not sound like this"
      .
      I'm not disrespecting the song, but Bach played with various temperaments until he found out the Well-Temperament

    • @Kram1032
      @Kram1032 4 місяці тому +3

      ​@@filmlets Gotta wonder what these musicians would've done differently with the comparatively low effort of switching temperaments digitally like this
      Like, tuning a piano takes aaaages, but digitally you can shift every note very easily to whatever

    • @matiasmorant4484
      @matiasmorant4484 4 місяці тому +19

      In summary, You want to go Bach in time

    • @G8tr1522
      @G8tr1522 4 місяці тому +4

      ​@@Kram1032apparently bach could tune his harpsichord in 15-minutes, and would retune it multiple times a day.

    • @Kram1032
      @Kram1032 4 місяці тому

      ​@@G8tr1522 that sounds very fast

  • @cd-zw2tt
    @cd-zw2tt 4 місяці тому +9

    one of the most palatable microtonal things I've ever heard. if mike battaglia is giving us some more of the subtle usages of it, this is the "deep" end

  • @mr88cet
    @mr88cet Рік тому +56

    I’d heard of 31TET waaaay back in 1977, but I hadn’t done much of anything with it until _Lumatone made it _*_so easy_*_ to work with_ !
    It’s an amazingly versatile and good-sounding tuning, and yet very easy too for both our ears and our minds to make sense of, as well as fertile ground for expression!
    Amelia here, as well as Mike Battaglia and others, demonstrate all of the above seemingly effortlessly!

    • @puffinwrangler7557
      @puffinwrangler7557 Рік тому +1

      Hi Mr. Morrison. Yes, that was a great performance from Ms. Huff. So, who will set up your own 88-cent scale on the Lumatone and improvise with it? I composed for electric guitar for Melle Weijters in your scale, which you may find here: ua-cam.com/video/xlMxRzu4cB0/v-deo.html&pp=ygUjdG9kZCBoYXJyb3AgbWVsbGUgd2VpanRlcnMgc3Vuc2hpbmU%3D

    • @mr88cet
      @mr88cet Рік тому +1

      @@puffinwrangler7557, nice … “atmospheric,” for lack of a better term … guitar work! Is that 41TET? It’s challenging enough to _count_ the frets let alone play them, but the frets look closer together than what I’d expect for 31?
      For whatever it’s worth, I find that 88CET tuning maps to a traditional keyboard nicely, provided that I can map out the G#/Ab. You can then have a circle of fifths rotating through a 7:4 subminor 7th, which “looks like” the octave in notation. So then, you get from that a system of “pseudo-diatonic” scales and “pseudo-keys.”
      Lumatone makes it really easy to map out the G#/Ab key, but with a comparatively-large step size of 88c, it’s probably more convenient to have the larger keys of a traditional keyboard.

  • @DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop
    @DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop 4 місяці тому +7

    This makes me feel something I don't have the vocabulary for, but it's good.

  • @ONESOULBEAT
    @ONESOULBEAT Рік тому +31

    My favorite of your Lumatone performances BY FAR!!

    • @user-fw9nb6pk9m
      @user-fw9nb6pk9m Рік тому +1

      Check out Zheanna Erose and Cam Taylor

    • @composerjalen
      @composerjalen 9 місяців тому

      ​@@user-fw9nb6pk9mthis video is Zheanna

    • @vapourmile
      @vapourmile 17 днів тому

      @@user-fw9nb6pk9m
      Check it out to be sure but I think you will find Zhea Erose, Zheanna Erose and Amelia Huff are quite probably different names for the same person. :)

  • @lydiaelsewhere1504
    @lydiaelsewhere1504 Рік тому +17

    Beautiful music, Z 🤩

  • @vilvotha
    @vilvotha 9 місяців тому +11

    Omg this is beautiful- what a fantastic example of how to include unusual intervals in a piece. I looked the artist up on spotify and didnt see her. I would love to have a collection of this type of stuff to listen to- i would purchase it. In a way, i feel like ive always been looking for music like this- but its hard to find beautiful music that INCLUDES those dissonant (as our brainwashed ears hear it) tones without being overwhelmed by them or noisy.

    • @stirlingblackwood
      @stirlingblackwood 2 місяці тому +3

      Her artist name is Zhea Erose - she has a great song called “Sola” on here that I think is also on Spotify.

    • @vilvotha
      @vilvotha 2 місяці тому +2

      @@stirlingblackwood thanks!!

  • @5StringTheory
    @5StringTheory Рік тому +7

    Love it so much, those spisy harmonies :)

  • @lante612
    @lante612 Рік тому

    I love this

  • @denes.andras
    @denes.andras Рік тому +2

    Amazing 😮

  • @user-hx1gw3qb3v
    @user-hx1gw3qb3v 18 днів тому

    she looks cool

  • @shedidntthinkthisthrough
    @shedidntthinkthisthrough Місяць тому

    It’s amazing and she’s amazing I love her 🥺

  • @theguitarsofmatthewgrasso
    @theguitarsofmatthewgrasso 9 місяців тому +1

    Bravo! Very Beautiful.

  • @mr88cet
    @mr88cet Рік тому +5

    Way-cool improv! Thanks for sharing.
    Next step, incorporate the “whoa!” harmonies from your “Paranola.”

  • @frequencymanipulator
    @frequencymanipulator Рік тому +27

    According to @lumi-musictheory3476 31 EDO is Super-diatonic, Super-mavila, and Hyper-diatonic. Yay.

    • @meru_lpz
      @meru_lpz Рік тому +3

      What is the meaning of "Super-diatonic", "Super-mavila", and "Hyper-diatonic"? 😅

    • @romeolz
      @romeolz Рік тому +3

      ​@@meru_lpz i remember it has something to do with the sharpness/flatness of the fifth
      You can get a better explanation from @Lumi - Music & Theory's video "Making sense of microtones by stacking fifths"

  • @tabor503
    @tabor503 9 місяців тому +4

    I wanna do music like this

  • @akashboinpally4389
    @akashboinpally4389 Рік тому +2

    damn thats good

  • @musicalchas
    @musicalchas 11 місяців тому +2

    This is amazing, i wish there were an angle straight above your hands!

  • @nycReaching
    @nycReaching Рік тому

    vivid

  • @robertmcdonell831
    @robertmcdonell831 28 днів тому

    It's amazing, I've done so much deep listening of piano for so long that I've had 12TET ingrained into my ear, to the extent that I can even tell certain notes apart from each other, when I hear them out of nowhere I might know it's an A for example.
    But the more I listen to this song the less out of tune it sounds. I think my mind is starting to wrap itself around these microtones

  • @UltraLeetJ
    @UltraLeetJ Рік тому +8

    this is superb.. what would be the easiest way to experiment with this if I cannot yet afford a lumatone?

    • @jonahbranch5625
      @jonahbranch5625 Рік тому +1

      I think there are regular MIDI keyboards which let you reprogram the inputs

    • @o-k9267
      @o-k9267 11 місяців тому +4

      You can remap the frequencies of any digital keyboard / piano with midi support, some even allow you to do so straight in the instrument. Of course it'll limit the number of octaves and you'll have to re-learn the tone layouts.

    • @mintegral1719
      @mintegral1719 9 місяців тому +4

      The awesome microtonal artist Sevish created a website that lets you choose/create any tuning you want, and export it in a number of formats that are accepted by various VST synths. I think my comment would get deleted if I put the link in it, but it shouldn't be too hard to find. And then yeah, you can just play it on a regular MIDI keyboard. Although I did learn the hard way that 31TET is very difficult to play on a normal keyboard without giant hands...

  • @user-qk2eb2yf3l
    @user-qk2eb2yf3l Місяць тому

    JB Bach will get the giggles playing with this keyboard Amelia, His ‘Sheep Will Safely Graze’ played with various tones, Ah Ha! ❤ from Petra Brown, Ewe can imagine his face.

  • @user-qk2eb2yf3l
    @user-qk2eb2yf3l 3 місяці тому

    A beautiful sound Amelia, From Petra-B xxx🐱

  • @ezequielgerstelbodoha9492
    @ezequielgerstelbodoha9492 Місяць тому

    As much as I like the 31 EDO system, and pieces like this one, there's an important factor that is lost: the symmetry. The fact that the diminished seventh chord belongs to 4 different keys helps the ear to accept dissonances more easily, and to modulate smoothly into different tonalities, not mentioning that this symetric use of the mediants has been really important for the development of modern jazz.
    I think that as 31 EDO might be useful sometimes in jazz for creating some new tensions, I would rather like it to found its own sound and natural development, being an independent style of music

  • @Rilkir
    @Rilkir Рік тому +1

    I see that this has its own power supply. So does it always have to be be hooked up to a computer/laptop due to the software, or can you just use it "standalone" where it's only hooked up to the hardware synthesizer that it's sending MIDI to?

    • @moontan91
      @moontan91 Рік тому +1

      it can be hooked up to a hardware synthesizer.
      but i don't know if hardware synths can respond to microtonal scales.

  • @robertmcdonell831
    @robertmcdonell831 Місяць тому

    I can almost hear those stilted lo-fi hip hop drums in a few places

  • @ONESOULBEAT
    @ONESOULBEAT Рік тому +1

    Is this LTN available?

  • @the_allucinator
    @the_allucinator 8 місяців тому +2

    A bit jazzy

  • @notabagel
    @notabagel 6 місяців тому

    little nardis at 1:37

  • @weitzhandler
    @weitzhandler 6 місяців тому

    0:52 wtf was that?

    • @isaacpianos5208
      @isaacpianos5208 2 місяці тому +2

      It's microtonal music, shit happens lol

  • @zlatkodraskovic5532
    @zlatkodraskovic5532 3 місяці тому

    So relaxing… 🇦🇺❤️

  • @leboinator7621
    @leboinator7621 5 місяців тому +1

    at about 2:00 did anyone feel like she was gonna hit the licc

  • @MySoundscore
    @MySoundscore Рік тому +4

    Just why?
    Awesome skills, but it still hurts my ears.
    Am I really alone with that feeling?

    • @lumatone
      @lumatone  Рік тому +25

      You're probably not alone, no! In this big beautiful world, you're never alone!
      But a whole lot of folks would likely disagree with you too.
      That's the beautiful subjectivity of music.
      We -- and many of the folks on our channel -- love these sounds.

    • @G8tr1522
      @G8tr1522 Рік тому +5

      you have to listen with a different attitude. Don't expect a pretty tune, but brace for intense clashes of tones. Like bracing down before eating something spicy for the first time, you should take a deep breath and try to taste all the unfamiliar flavors.

    • @VictorGrand
      @VictorGrand Рік тому +11

      I see it as trying a cup of coffee for the first time. At least for me, I hated the taste of coffee but stuck with trying to keep tasting it here and there. Now I have a palette that allows for coffee to surprise, astound and delight me. Different musical temperaments are really outside of the palette we're surrounded by and used to in the west, as Abby already said. Maybe you may surprise yourself with what you come to enjoy about it over time if you give it another try here and there!

    • @Teckiels24
      @Teckiels24 Рік тому +6

      No, i used to be the same way, after a while the dissonances become no more sour than those in 12 tone, while the consonances acquire a deep and subtle beauty

    • @Persun_McPersonson
      @Persun_McPersonson 10 місяців тому +9

      If you're trained on a single tuning your entire life, then a wildly different tuning like this will sound unnatural and out of tune. It takes purposeful self-exposure an alternate tuning in order for your mind to adapt to it and see it in a similar way to 12TET.

  • @emfox6280
    @emfox6280 8 місяців тому

    Sounds slightly out of tune…?

    • @leftaroundabout
      @leftaroundabout 7 місяців тому +10

      But what is "in tune"? It depends on what you're used to. To me, the pinnacle of intonation are good string quartets, Barbershop singers and similar, who use mostly just intonation. Compared to that, 12-edo instruments like standard piano actually are always a bit out of tune. 31-edo can get much closer to JI, though of course with that many notes it can also do stuff that's brutally dissonant.

    • @dr.banane8038
      @dr.banane8038 7 місяців тому +2

      She plays in another tone space with different notes, I think it sounds more in tune than normally

    • @martinr7728
      @martinr7728 6 місяців тому

      I've listened to this many times now and the offness of it in my head is almost completely gone

    • @dr.banane8038
      @dr.banane8038 6 місяців тому

      @@martinr7728 after a bit time of getting used to it, it sounds way better than 12 edo

    • @martinr7728
      @martinr7728 6 місяців тому +2

      I dunno, to me it just sounds different. Some of the basic intervals are less accurate, some are more accurate, and some of the intervals are completely new!@@dr.banane8038

  • @shitmandood
    @shitmandood 3 місяці тому

    It’s really training my ears.