Zhea Erose - WXTCHCRXFT [37-tone Just Intonation] EP
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
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This is an excerpt from my upcoming LP, Wxtchcrxft. This will be my 5th LP and it is purely microtonal. This 24 minute title track is the center piece to the album. It is divided into 3 parts but presented as a whole:
1. 0:00 Sonder
2. 7:48 Wxtchcrxft
3. 14:32 Forever
This piece contains the conceptual and thematic climax of the album in the land of forever. The story is of a harmonic witch who turns herself into sound and can't find her way back.
Tuning:
WXTCHCRXFT is further proof of concept illustrating my harmonic scale theories and "near equal just intonation" approach. I used two primary tunings throughout:
1) 29-tone neji, 19*11 novemdecimal-undecimal hybrid:
209:214:219:225:230:235:241:247:253:259:265:272:279:285:292:299:306:314:322:329:337:345:354:362:371:380:389:398:408:418
step - ratio - cents
0: 1/1 0.0
1: 214/209 40.9
2: 219/209 80.9
3: 225/209 127.7
4: 230/209 165.7
5: 235/209 202.9
6: 241/209 246.6
7: 13/11 289.2
8: 23/19 330.7
9: 259/209 371.3
10: 265/209 410.9
11: 272/209 456.1
12: 279/209 500.1
13: 15/11 536.9
14: 292/209 578.9
15: 299/209 619.9
16: 306/209 660.0
17: 314/209 704.7
18: 322/209 748.2
19: 329/209 785.5
20: 337/209 827.0
21: 345/209 867.7
22: 354/209 912.2
23: 362/209 950.9
24: 371/209 993.4
25: 20/11 1034.9
26: 389/209 1075.5
27: 398/209 1115.1
28: 408/209 1158.0
29: 2/1 1200.0
2) 8-tone, hypernaiadic /41 with a bunch of commas
41:47:53:60:61:71:80:91
0: 1/1 0.0
1: 47/41 236.4
2: 53/41 444.4
3: 60/41 659.2
4: 61/41 687.8
5: 71/41 950.6
6: 80/41 1157.2
7: 91/41 1380.2
3) Vocals:
The vocals are, of course, in just intonation but I accept organic tuning errors. When dealing with just intonation at this level, it's extremely difficult to sing pure. The resolution of control our vocal physiology offers quickly gets outpaced by resolution of harmonic possibility. Therefore, I do my best to sing the JI as I want, but accept error in the voice. I'm targeting several lower complexity intervals in the voice, tuning to the ensembles complex just intonation, and singing more complex JI targets not listed in either tuning.
Lyrics:
the lyrics are an impressionistic and reactionary impulse which spontaneously synthesizes my experience of the sound and the conceptual arc. There are lyrics but everyone will hear something different. The affect of the music, then, will dictate how each person hears WXTCHCRXFT.
Credits
Amelia Huff - tuning, synthesis, composition, arrangement, mixing, mastering, artwork, film, editing, and performance.
warmly,
z
zheaerosemusic.bandcamp.com/
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Felt the need to re-listen to this today. So chill everything in the room started levitating
blessed. ty
Ha, now I feel silly for mentioning Sevish in my other comment. They already praised your work! Love you both so much ❤
This is the first hip microtonal music ive heard. Infinity/10
Sometimes I think there's no more new fresh sounds. Fortunately I'm wrong. This is amazing!
My entire body is pulsing
@@charlotteevelyn2440 My pulse has been bodied
The thought of your witch character not being able to get back her normal world, is saddening, it’s like missing a vital bus when it’s getting late Amelia. ❤ you from Petra-B
stuff like this is gonna redeem modernity
Couldn't sleep last night, stumbled over your channel randomly. Got lost in your world. Haven't been so amazed by anything for a very long time. Thank you for crafting this with so much heart and detail.
The transcendent queen arose between the paradoxical harmonic dissonance that she carved in the land with hands and teeth. She towers over the vast sonic landscape that lay around her as streams flow from her mouth and eyes propounding to the all the melody of her intent; a conflict that only finds resolution in itself, of itself. This universe is both new and old and the source, the queen, has seen and caused it all to be. Magnificence! Thank you for your art 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Yes and thank you for yours
I haven't been this excited about new music in ages. Fantastic in the every sense of the word.
Thanks so much. :)
i dont get brought to tears by music very often, but this. this did it
Fantastic work. Gives me vibes that are comparable to Sweet Trip's "Velocity : Design : Comfort", but far more modern.
You're one of the best in the world of microtonal music. Often it sounds "out of tune" when listening to others play around with it but somehow you make it gel perfectly. Must be the primodality at work!
Criminally under exposed. This is my new ‘play it at night whilst I lay in bed absorbing my day’ track.
Thank you! I'm glad I can enrich your introspection.
Same! Going to bed half an hour earlier sometimes and listening to this is so refreshing. In part it helps me clear my mind and reflect, at other points it's just getting lost in the music. It's wonderful!
I can't stop listening to this. The control you've taken over your voice is so, so impressive.
It’s like good musical sorcery, it’s beneficial Zhea, Petra-B xxx
All your songs are definitely the most amazing masterpieces I've heard in my life (I'm not kidding, your music is in another level of perfection), unfortunately mostly of people don't appreciate it because they can't feel it, but please keep doing it, it's really amazing :'3
That's okay that most people can't -- you can. :) thanks for listening and being here!
:3
This song is so ethereal or surreal sounding and it gives me whatever the positive version of what sensory overload is
one of the most slept on music creators out there
I came for the voice lessons, but then stayed for your mind-blowing music. This is such an active experience and yet so soothing. It's like syrupy electricity.
Wow! I have been listening to microtonal music for a while now and I truly think this is the best I've heard so far.
Just stumbled on this and felt compelled to say thank you. Fascinating and beautiful.
Why doesn't this have more likes, views, shares, saves, subscribers... anything? This is soo beautiful and inspiring!!!
I don't often get excited about the future of music, but this entire mini song cycle sure gets me there. I think this proves exactly what you're talking about with the JI/neji approach, you're creating chords and progressions that have their own interesting character to them. Can't wait for that LP!
you give me hope
This is so calming. You truly are an auditory sorceress.
I find myself coming back to this after going through hell and back. College stress, a breakup, intense anxieties about the future and so on.
I find comfort in listening to the whole piece as i feel it takes me on a journey through the profound nature of sound.
Thank you.
I've been producing music for over 13 years. After watching lots of videos on harmonies, just intonation vs equal temperament etc., I found your music. I'm speechless, I'm blown away. Not only because of your unique tonal choices, but also because of your talent and passion, creativity and visuals. This kind of music keeps your brain focused and entertained, and maybe somehow may help with ADHD conditions, just assuming. Anyway, great work, I really enjoyed it, subscribed, and off to listen to more of your music :)
Im a living proof that this actually helps a lot for ADHD, is a great stimulous for the brain to use the extra mind energy and be able to concentrate in another tasks
On another level altogether, this is transcendent
Thank you~!
I revisited this song after not listening to it since November or so. The level of control that sound has over the mind is disarming in some ways, and this song demonstrates that for me. I can remember specific smells from the time period in which I first heard this piece: smoke, engine oil, musty upholstery and root beer flavored vape. There are also less ephemeral experiences that start to appear from that time, mainly the wildfires near me and the loss of a friend just over two months after this song was released, right before Halloween. Z, you have successfully anchored a part of my psyche to this song like a save point in a video game. Everything I was experiencing at that time is instantly available in some sense memory data bank for about half an hour just by listening to this song. Thank you for allowing me to have this experience.
I feel like microtonal music has a bright future ahead
This music is absolutely entrancing, and so is the video honestly. For something that is 24 minutes long, I was expecting something that had a much slower build up or took longer to change textures, but I think the fact that there's always something developing is what wraps the listener in and keeps us engaged so well!
this is some of the most breathtakingly lush stuff ever. seriously stunning job, blows my mind
4:36 omfg, successive eargasms
You are a genius. Despite how much music I listen to, the number of times that music alone has made me outright say that to someone is extremely limited and it hasn't happened since 2011. The night I found this will be something that I remember forever, just like that night was.
Wow... I just found out about your music, and I must say that I can't comprehend the scope of amazing stuff you have composed and produced in a rather short amount of time. All of it is simply mind-blowingly unique and innovative. Not just in terms of tonality and tuning, but in terms of how you use it to create grand musical narratives with maximum emotional impact that constantly keeps you on your toes while listening. I think that a new part of my brain has been activated, or something. Thank you so much!
omg i just finished this.... a journey and a half. i love it
Oh hey I found another 12tone server person
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Zheanna Is So Amazing. I actually Can't Even!
Keep it up Zhea!!!! ❤❤
holy shit how have i not heard of you before this is fantastic
Really really cool stuff! The world of music is made more vibrant by the mere existence of your work.
I look forward to every scrap of art you produce in the future as I am certain it will be inspired :)
Your voice has wonderful colours and hues. I have not come across many singers who express that Zhea, love the purples particularly, LOL from Petra-Brown ❤
This is wonderful. I'm eagerly looking forward to the LP's release.
What a sonic world - uncanny & beautiful thank you 🙏
Je viens de me prendre une gifle !!! Mais quel incroyable gifle, c'est frais ! C'est maîtriser ! C'est incroyable ! Merci beaucoup !!
Quel bonheur d'entendre des choses pareils ! Waoooww Chapeau l'artiste !
you've literally cast a spell over me with this composing skill. You're absolutely wild
Masterpiece that future humans will relive when they explore their 5d internet.
You know I often wonder about things like that, especially considering how so many of the classical composers we associate with utter musical genius now actually died broke and far less known in their times than relatively underground artists of today, only to be worshipped in the future and endlessly studied. There's honestly no reason not to expect it; it's what's happened for centuries. Sad on one hand but majestic on the other.
It will be even more eerie for those of the future, having access to the sound files of the long dead. Imagine if we actually had endless recordings of Bach displaying his harmonic mastery exactly as it was intended. Bach wasn't as unknown as many of them, but he wasn't rich, only made a decent living, and was mostly only heavily respected as a genius by other music nerds back then. Now he's just a household name and even people who don't like him personally know he was absolutely cracked.
This is one of my favourite pieces of music :)
Pretty amazing stuff
I don't know, if you just came to appreciate the beauty of spectrograms, or if it actually has to do with some of your other type of videos - especially on the second channel - but it made me feel hard in that direction while listening. Part two hit extra hard for some reason and I got some This Binary Universe vibes from it as well.
The closeups of the spectrograms made me tear up at some parts...
Amazing track that made me stop everything I was doing and just listen and watch. Thanks for making this.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I'm grateful for you ears!
WOW! You are getting that darkness into your voice that you wanted to get Z! It’s rich.....
Thank you for hearing that!
I love what you’ve done with the final mix :)
I've listened to this so many times again and again. Just incredible, everything about it. Thank you for writing this
Alternative hobbies are a lovely escape at times Zhea Erose, Petra-B xxx❤🐱🐯
I’ve listened to this piece a various times over 9 months from getting overwhelmed by the sound to being able to sort out bits of it. I can’t say enough how beautiful this is. How unique and special this is. This is a gift to the world and it is genous
Very cool! The sound design, recording and mixing is also excellent!
Thank you!!
Thank you for making music. Your music helps me reset after a shit day. Amazing work!
After listening a few times and reading the numbers, it all clicked in my head. It seemed daunting at first but much simpler and logical than I initially thought.
Sonically this is immaculate
This really took me by surprise
I swear listening to this makes me high without drugs
2 years wtf.. coming back to this masterpiece still absolutely HEXXED
just disover it, after a sad day. creative music like that always help me escaping my thougts, it's make me feel like i'm in a sort of cloudy and poetic dream, so thanks 🌸
11:15 Damn, that's intricate.
This is ahead of it’s time
This piece is amazing. I can not stop listening to it. It has a mesmerizing and transporting quality that makes me feel like I've transcended the human plane and uploaded my consciousness to a post-humanistic hub
Staggeringly beautiful and fresh. A friend forwarded the link for this magic and I will be returning to it again and again. It takes the listener to another realm. Thank you for sharing this. Blown away is a huge understatement.
It’s completely insane!!! Each second is a new experiment, a new sensation for my ears! Please, keep going!!
this is so good!
I am a new fan and I am just so impressed by the sound of your work and the theoretical basis of it. You are quite amazing. I have been toying with just intonation myself for years but not at this hardcore level. Your work is really inspiring! Thanks, Amanda from Sydney.
This is amazing... I’m not sure if I’ll ever escape this foreign place you just lead me into.
Not sure if I want to.
You’re amazing!
was brought to tears hearing this through a feeling that wasn't just a memory association or expression of a sadness or joy that was already seated in me, but brought to tears from the transcendence of the possibility the music opens up, like an ecstatic excitement that the expression of the human soul is only just getting started, thank you
WOW. This is incredible.
Thanks for sharing your music and the otone steps. Very interesting.
I am listening to the piece but I have to already compliment the way in which you present it with the story and all :)
Thank you!
I just listened to this on headphones, stone sober. It is like music beamed in through a wormhole and sounding in full technicolor with every frequency of electromagnetic radiation suddenly made audible. Hints of some of the origins of great electronica (Autechre, Squarepusher, BoC, AFX) but in a totally NEW NEW NEW spin. What a tremendously unique, brilliant, and talented human being you are.
Yeah, way way better than I can do, just incredible on so many levels.
this is absolutely god-tier music
Every time I listen to this piece it becomes more beautiful! I really enjoy 11 meter.
You have opened up a whole new frontier of music for me to study, listen, and enjoy. Thank you very much.
Sounds sweet. Thanks for some light
I still come back to this 'cause it's magical.
This is really lovely.
Wow, this is absolutely lush 💕
That was really cool
Half of these views are probably from me because your music helps me study haha
this is absolutely beautiful and mind blowing. Thank you.
I am enjoying listening to this a lot right now. Thank you.
what a wonderful sonic journey you took us on .Thank you.
this is really brilliant! always cool hearing microtonal tracks outside of classical. your voice is beautiful and the drums are heat, great work!
Really excellent work. Your dedication to your craft is an inspiration.
This music proves the existence of the soul
This is phenomenal. Awesome job!
Wonderful. I love sinking into these kinds of vibes. The choice for visuals is awesome, too.
This is something special. Amazing music!
This is better than harmonizing with the boys
This is fantastic.
How is this not more popular
ITS FINALLY RELEASED!
Favourite part 0:00-24:33
This is a gigantic masterpiece, amazing job
Edit: I am also very happy with the changes in the final mix, they make this so much better, especcially the part around 5 minutes in
Woooo!! I'm glad you like all the changes I added. I feel this mix is way more solid, well rounded, and dynamic than the all the previous drafts. I'm happy with how the transitional sections turned out. like 4:35. When it was just music it was so barren! now it feels like those areas are thematic high points. Thank you for listening so intently!~
Absolutely love it! Also, really nice to see more use of microtonal tunings. I love using various tunings as well -- it really helps keep composition feeling fresh!
Thank you for taking me on this cosmic journey this morning. Beautiful and otherworldly bliss✨✨
Masterpiece
Harmonic witch QUEEN
I was stuck in thinking of synths alternately as a very rigid and sterile group or something formless and fluid. You've overcome that dichotomy here, very nice!
Wish I found this 3 years ago but I’ll take it now. This is officially my shower music lol