Yooo, @EveCitrus I loved watching your videos! It's cool to see a comment of yours in the vast sea of the internet even though you've stopped uploading a long while back. I must concur, they have indeed mastered the thingamajiggy
@@Storemotor73 it's not really microtonal, it's enharmonic, it has, e.g, D#s and Ebs and C naturals and B#s, so all major thirds can be played in tune. It even has double sharps and flats.
It seems to me that since I can somewhat predict what the next measure, phrase, etc. will be like in normal music, the inability to expect what's coming next is like how unexpectedness is part of the basis of why we enjoy comedy
@@cleve741 how to hear it properly ? Hearing like that first, i sort of try to put sounds into normal 1/2 tones, and if it fails, like in some places here with shifts, it just sounds false but then as he remains in the same scale it is normal again...
@@cicik57 I wouldn't stress too much about hearing it "properly". With style in particular you could think of it in terms of normal diatonic theory, but using microtonal shifts as sort of tonal accents.
I think it differentiate between things like Bb and A# which do have an actual difference but on instruments are the same note due to them being similar enough in frequency
@@unicornbro517they both refer to the same frequency in equal temperament, it's just the instrument is tuned to a different temperament Edit - wanted to add that Bb and A# are indeed different with right context. Bb functioning as the tonic in Bb major is not the same frequency as A# that is major 7th in B (natural) major (-12 cents according to google, do log math to get frequency) But notice how the conversation is still around the temperament, in this case just intonation. Would highly recommend doing some reading and asking your music teacher to clear up this misconception.
To anyone who knows the original recording with Flora Purin vocals and who knows the criticism regarding her tuning, this sounds as both an homage and a criticism on a whole new level. On my part I always enjoyed her singing and found this version no less than amusing.
Exactly what I came here to comment! I thought, is this a nod to Flora Purim’s intonation? 😂 but at the same time, that is one of the elements that make those records so nostalgic for me, and it is captured here in a completely different context. It was quite a nice brain massage!
@@mootbooxle prefer her let's call it “contestable” intonation than the universal melodyned to f epidemic we're bathed in today. Going back and listening to this track and hearing a real singer choosing real pitches is a breath of fresh air honestly. And imo she's easily just as often off standard pitch in a musically interesting and enjoyable way as she is in an objectionable way 🙃
Perfect temperaments in jazz! This is my first exposure to it. This is so lovely. I hope you'll be inspired to try some more. I'd love to hear your interpretation (and arrangement!) of Coltrane's Giant Steps. Your choice of how to tune around the circle of related fifths would really add something interesting. And I don't know that there would be a "right answer"
Thie is not actually just Intonation if I understand it correctly. Just Intonation is the unconcious norm in a capella music because you have infinite freedom in intonation You should listen to a capella songs from Jacob Collier. There are many jazzy songs with perfect Intonation. Moon river from him really stands out
Also I can't believe the hate this is getting - it's absolutely incredible! I used to compose microtonal pop but even with the background knowledge this blows my mind even more!
his hands match his piano in a way that only a perfect cinematographer could capture. I love how beautiful this looks, feels, and sounds. UA-cam was the best medium to experience this.
I think it’s a microtonal harpsichord? I’m also not sure how the layout works though but I assume the bottom two rows are like a normal keyboard and then it increases pitch with each row?
@@redddubs since intruments like this are usually equally tempered, I’d assume it would go up by 8th steps where each note above the ones on your average piano are going up by 25 cents
@@redddubs Pretty sure the middle of the triple keys is approaching our modern 12-ET version while the ones above and below are in some sort of Just Intonation or Meantone. In either of those systems, C♯ is lower than D♭, D♯ is lower than E♭, etc. I also think that these keys all share a pair of strings and get "fretted" like a clavichord, so you can only choose one of the three at any given time.
There's 31 keys per octave, so I'm guessing this is tuned to 31 equal temperament. The bottom row should sound pretty close to what the white keys on a piano would sound, and there's either 2 or 4 intermediate notes in between. It gives way better thirds and slightly worse fourth and fifth than 12-ET (the standard tuning).
i wanna know why it all of a sudden stopped. this is what i needed. im fascinated. we need more jazz on this microtonal contraption that somehow makes jazz almost sound better
i swear i have heard some brazillian songs in some weird tuning system from the 1980s that were very similar to this, maybe 31edo too, but now i cant remember the name
@@GlacierGalaxy i think i found the guy i was thinking of, but i dont think if i can call it microtonal i think its more like just entonation, its a man called José Augusto Mannis and i also recomment checking out Jônatas Manzolli.
This is NUTS!!!! Go Georg. Astounding. Some of those modulations look so wild here with the usual meantone layout, congrats for getting your fingers and ears around all of this stuff. I'd be so keen for something similar but much longer. Always keen for more.
I like this song so so much!! Long time I didn’t listen to it!! What a perfomance!! Thanks!! Only in microtonal we can aprecia-te the intricacy of chick coreas genius.
this is so impressive man, the rythm in playing it and the constant shifting from feeling like a 70's italian love movie to a lonely cabin in a foogy forrest in scotland, i love it
i see you have played in a trio! and it is quite wonderful. a trio with this specific microtonal ingenuinity though, that would be even lovelier to see
Did you literally translated all the jazz vocabulary into 31-edo, and even extended jazz chords in 31-edo, and then mastered all 31 different keys? That sounds like a huge amount of work.
Seen this video at least 120 times on loop, it's so goddamn catchy something about it intrigues my brain and stops it from leaving this sound's sphere of influence. It sounds so strange yet so familiar at the same time...
Yeah sounds like the musical version of uncanny valley, but what gets me is the *aesthetic* - GORGEOUS hands, like in a renaissance painting or a scene out of Oppenheimer, but contorted into ungodly shapes. Golden candlelight highlighting every contour of buddy's one million veins & ligaments. Love it.
At first I just thought this was a piano with weird colored keys but now I realize it's one of the most difficult instruments in the world to play. The pitch sounds good
@@DeeCeeHaich okay and? If the tuning division was a multiple of 12 like 24- or 36-tet, then you'd be right, but 31 isn't divisible by 12 so the notes that are being played don't overlap with 12-tet at all (except for maybe the octaves)
This is so complex, anybody wishing to analyse it would have their brains converted to musical mush. It's not rocket science, it's worse than that, its music theory Jim, but not as we know it.........😊😊😊
Easily the best use of microtonality I've seen so far. Not just wild harmonization for the sake of it, which many microtonal writers get caught up with, but proper songwriting that is strangely catchy. Great work.
this feels like a song you’d hear when you were 7 on an incredibly rare nintendo wii error screen in the middle of the night when you weren’t supposed to be up that would scare the crap out of you so you’d shut it off and never hear it again but it would linger in the back of your mind as a sort of haunting melody that you know but you just can’t remember where it was from until years later when it gets recommended to you on youtube and you suddenly remember or maybe it’s just a weird lil ditty idk
Look, I'm a piano tuner and composer, and I absolutely love the idea of non 12TET keyboards and love that people make music with them and interpret music in different ways, opening up so many possibilities and breaking away from the established concepts But man have I spent way too long going hardcore with 12TET for any of this to sound appealing to me
@@salt8888e that's the thing, I spent 10 months tuning an instrument to equal temperament every single day, by ear, and I do it for a job. It's going to take far more time than I have to break that mould and listen to other temperaments.
dude has mastered the thingimajig. mad respect
Mans is world class thingimajigist
Yooo, @EveCitrus I loved watching your videos! It's cool to see a comment of yours in the vast sea of the internet even though you've stopped uploading a long while back. I must concur, they have indeed mastered the thingamajiggy
Rolls off the tongue much better than 'Microtonal Harpsichord'
@@Storemotor73 it's not really microtonal, it's enharmonic, it has, e.g, D#s and Ebs and C naturals and B#s, so all major thirds can be played in tune. It even has double sharps and flats.
@@davidmdyer838Nerd!! Just kidding, very interesting.
I never understood the phrase "it tingles my brain" until now.
I listened to it 5 times in a row. I will keep listening to it
It seems to me that since I can somewhat predict what the next measure, phrase, etc. will be like in normal music, the inability to expect what's coming next is like how unexpectedness is part of the basis of why we enjoy comedy
getting that too. through my body too!
Microtonal music is pretty cool.
@@cleve741 how to hear it properly ? Hearing like that first, i sort of try to put sounds into normal 1/2 tones, and if it fails, like in some places here with shifts, it just sounds false but then as he remains in the same scale it is normal again...
@@cicik57 I wouldn't stress too much about hearing it "properly". With style in particular you could think of it in terms of normal diatonic theory, but using microtonal shifts as sort of tonal accents.
Thank you youtubr. Drunk me loved this
BRO SAME
😂
You shouldn't drink at such a young age
@@Brimmsune Bruh. Lol. How do you know he's young? 😂
Wait .... i am not the only one ?? 😂
If anybody's wondering, this instrument is called a Clavemusicum omnitonum (don't thank me thank the description 😭)
thank you
@@n30n__ra1nHE SAID DONT THANK HIM HOW DARE YOU??
Thank you
Thank you
thank you
I love how this sounds like an out of tune piano and a perfectly in tune piano at the same time
I think it differentiate between things like Bb and A# which do have an actual difference but on instruments are the same note due to them being similar enough in frequency
@@unicornbro517they both refer to the same frequency in equal temperament, it's just the instrument is tuned to a different temperament
Edit - wanted to add that Bb and A# are indeed different with right context. Bb functioning as the tonic in Bb major is not the same frequency as A# that is major 7th in B (natural) major (-12 cents according to google, do log math to get frequency) But notice how the conversation is still around the temperament, in this case just intonation. Would highly recommend doing some reading and asking your music teacher to clear up this misconception.
Mostly out though.
its a harpsichord.
i wonder how many hours of listening to microtonal music i would need before this sounds in tune to me and not just a spicy piano
finally youtube algorithm showing something nice. Also if you hate to tune your guitar every time, imagine tuning this.
so microtonal jazz sounds good
edit: it's been two months yall, argue about something else please
Someone call King Gizzard
Tfw no microtonal piano ;_;
@@CrowCloudsYes there is
This is not jazz btw
@@dean_norris sounds jazzy to me though
Finally, me harnessing youtube algorithm all these years were not in vain.
LMAO exact same thought
I think the algorithm just took longer to figure us folk out.
joão sebastião bach 👍
Underrated comment lol
João sebastião bar*
I see what you did there
No. Bach used simplified harmony, called "wohltemperiert". This 31 tones are the opposite.
@@zzausel "Erm, ackshually..." 🤓👆 (thanks for the precision tho)
To anyone who knows the original recording with Flora Purin vocals and who knows the criticism regarding her tuning, this sounds as both an homage and a criticism on a whole new level. On my part I always enjoyed her singing and found this version no less than amusing.
I had no clue anyone could even dislike her singing
I don't care for her voice too much, but I actually didn't really think it was at least partially a tuning issue.
Damn she’s been one of my favorite singers for while I didn’t know people don’t like her as singer. Her butterfly dreams album is amazing
Exactly what I came here to comment! I thought, is this a nod to Flora Purim’s intonation? 😂 but at the same time, that is one of the elements that make those records so nostalgic for me, and it is captured here in a completely different context. It was quite a nice brain massage!
@@mootbooxle prefer her let's call it “contestable” intonation than the universal melodyned to f epidemic we're bathed in today. Going back and listening to this track and hearing a real singer choosing real pitches is a breath of fresh air honestly.
And imo she's easily just as often off standard pitch in a musically interesting and enjoyable way as she is in an objectionable way 🙃
Perfect temperaments in jazz! This is my first exposure to it. This is so lovely. I hope you'll be inspired to try some more. I'd love to hear your interpretation (and arrangement!) of Coltrane's Giant Steps. Your choice of how to tune around the circle of related fifths would really add something interesting. And I don't know that there would be a "right answer"
this is almost more like bossa nova
Thie is not actually just Intonation if I understand it correctly. Just Intonation is the unconcious norm in a capella music because you have infinite freedom in intonation
You should listen to a capella songs from Jacob Collier. There are many jazzy songs with perfect Intonation. Moon river from him really stands out
@@lunagardvonbingen Bossa nova is jazz
@@keenban yes, but not all jazz is bossa nova.
@@lunagardvonbingen okay..? nobody said that.. you're just correcting / nitpicking for no reason lol
this has been stuck in my head since the video came out, i keep coming back to it, must've seen it at least a dozen times now. Wonderful!
still impossible to hum tho
Finally something that sounds really fresh!
Also I can't believe the hate this is getting - it's absolutely incredible! I used to compose microtonal pop but even with the background knowledge this blows my mind even more!
Please do more!!!!!
Not something often said about the harpsichord, but it sure does sound fresh :)
It's not music. It's garbage. It's not fresh, it's just a nice looking fruit that's rotten to the core.
what
This sounds so Brazilian, I love it.
Exatamente
Exatamente
Exatamente (o percussionista do return to forever era Brasileiro)
Nah it's not brashit
Extractaminte
First time I’ve heard something played on one of these that really sounds good. Thanks!
his hands match his piano in a way that only a perfect cinematographer could capture. I love how beautiful this looks, feels, and sounds. UA-cam was the best medium to experience this.
The sound is so clean though...
Nah.
@@WILLintoPOWER yah
@Random212312 nah x2
すごく不思議だけど、心地いい。散歩したくなる素敵な曲🫶💕
日本から応援してます！🎉
I am so confused by the layout of the keys..!
Loved this-fascinating to watch, cool tune, well-played.
I think it’s a microtonal harpsichord? I’m also not sure how the layout works though but I assume the bottom two rows are like a normal keyboard and then it increases pitch with each row?
@@redddubs since intruments like this are usually equally tempered, I’d assume it would go up by 8th steps where each note above the ones on your average piano are going up by 25 cents
@@redddubs Pretty sure the middle of the triple keys is approaching our modern 12-ET version while the ones above and below are in some sort of Just Intonation or Meantone. In either of those systems, C♯ is lower than D♭, D♯ is lower than E♭, etc. I also think that these keys all share a pair of strings and get "fretted" like a clavichord, so you can only choose one of the three at any given time.
@@mal2ksc im complete ass at music theory, but that’s the same reason some people argue that e# and f aren’t the same right?
There's 31 keys per octave, so I'm guessing this is tuned to 31 equal temperament. The bottom row should sound pretty close to what the white keys on a piano would sound, and there's either 2 or 4 intermediate notes in between.
It gives way better thirds and slightly worse fourth and fifth than 12-ET (the standard tuning).
i wanna know why it all of a sudden stopped. this is what i needed. im fascinated. we need more jazz on this microtonal contraption that somehow makes jazz almost sound better
Truly wonderful stuff, keep them coming!!!
Man. Is 4am. I just passed through a tiny depressive episode. This is what I needed. Thank you.
my jaw was on the floor the whole time, I'd absolutely love to hear more arrangements like this
We need more people like this who can use microtonal temperaments without it sounding like a horror film!!!
I've seen dozens of comments like this, and i'm not sure where people get the "horror film" microtonal music from, lol
@@galoomba5559me neither
i swear i have heard some brazillian songs in some weird tuning system from the 1980s that were very similar to this, maybe 31edo too, but now i cant remember the name
if you find it please let me know!😃
Eu quero pra mim é agora😭😭😭😭😭😭
You you re everything by C.corea
Maybe Aquarela do Brasil?
@@GlacierGalaxy i think i found the guy i was thinking of, but i dont think if i can call it microtonal i think its more like just entonation, its a man called José Augusto Mannis and i also recomment checking out Jônatas Manzolli.
I feel like the brazilians are gonna love this bad boy!
This is NUTS!!!! Go Georg. Astounding.
Some of those modulations look so wild here with the usual meantone layout, congrats for getting your fingers and ears around all of this stuff.
I'd be so keen for something similar but much longer. Always keen for more.
This video was my entrance point into microtonal music and i'm so grateful for it
Literally same
please listen to king gizzard's microtonal albums if you haven't already
@@martinpickell6540 I did, i also highly advice you check out The Mercury tree 🔥
I was so ready for you to say "This video was my entrance music for WWE" but what you said is true and that's good, too.
@@martinpickell6540 Who in the microtonal world doesn't know king gizz? :3
wow! a cover of a song by the late chick corea with a clavemusicum omnitonum!
late to what
@@Reaterson late means dead lol
This sounds lovely. Being able to hear all those notes blending together I think inspired the way I play my regular guitar. Thank you!
This has awoken something in me.... Thank you so much for sharing this with the world!
Seen this about 20 times now. I adore it
I like this song so so much!! Long time I didn’t listen to it!! What a perfomance!! Thanks!! Only in microtonal we can aprecia-te the intricacy of chick coreas genius.
The tone of this thing is just so lovely
Bro I have watched this so many times it sounds so good.
Wow, I love this! Very creative. Great playing and keep up the good work.
This tickled my brain in the best way. More please
this is so impressive man, the rythm in playing it and the constant shifting from feeling like a 70's italian love movie to a lonely cabin in a foogy forrest in scotland, i love it
This itches my brain in an indescribable way, thank you
Beautiful! the microtonal capabilities of that instrument is outstanding
¡Qué belleza de pieza! Amo tus piezas microtonales. ❤❤ Espero sigas componiendo buena música con ese precioso instrumento. ❤❤
Now that I've heard this I'll need to hear more micro-tonal music - great piece to spread the medium, didn't know it could sound so good.
Beautiful and fun!
Delightful musical journey. Gorgeous color grade.
For someone who has never really been in microtonal music, this still sounds really nice 😊
You might also Enjoy Dolores Catherino’s or Hear Between the Lines’ songs!
That pinky reach is next level
Ends too soon. Wonderful video
...im in love with someone who plays the piano. this makes me think of them.
Well this isn't a piano, but I'm glad you get to feel love listening to this song played on a microtonal harpsichord
@@soupisfornoobs4081 you are very kind AND informative.... reminds me of someone i love LOL
what i would give to hear you play in a trio... amazing stuff on its own too, of course.
i see you have played in a trio! and it is quite wonderful. a trio with this specific microtonal ingenuinity though, that would be even lovelier to see
my brother in ween 🤝
This is the first time I'm seeing an instrument like this
Finally someone who's very good at a microtonal instrument, fair play that was awesome
I am mesmerized buy the music, the instrument, the microtones, and the hands. Those are ten independent sentient fingers moving about. 😲
Did you literally translated all the jazz vocabulary into 31-edo, and even extended jazz chords in 31-edo, and then mastered all 31 different keys? That sounds like a huge amount of work.
Because, that's what heroes do!
Absolutely amazing, clean jazz microtonal harpsichord
Seen this video at least 120 times on loop, it's so goddamn catchy something about it intrigues my brain and stops it from leaving this sound's sphere of influence. It sounds so strange yet so familiar at the same time...
Yeah sounds like the musical version of uncanny valley, but what gets me is the *aesthetic* - GORGEOUS hands, like in a renaissance painting or a scene out of Oppenheimer, but contorted into ungodly shapes. Golden candlelight highlighting every contour of buddy's one million veins & ligaments. Love it.
Microtonal Corea- very cool
yes, it is good! thanks for playing this beautiful music!
At first I just thought this was a piano with weird colored keys but now I realize it's one of the most difficult instruments in the world to play. The pitch sounds good
Is this really harder than even the violin? By and large it should be comparable to the piano, just with a much higher skill ceiling.
This doesn't look that much harder to play than a regular piano. (or harpsichord, rather)
My ears are pleased with this noise, thank you.
bossa nova on a 31-edo harpsichord - now that's something i've never heard before, and i love it
Discovered a new instrument today. Great performance!
a full version would be awesome
This is officially one of the best things I've ever seen and heard
I feel like I just heard every song in existence at the same time
Incredible! I love it. Nice rendition!
I wish Chick could hear this. A gorgeous rendition few have even the tools to produce, never mind the skill, ear, and creativity.
Ugh I love these types of instruments especially when they’re uses for other creative genres that aren’t just classical ❤❤
finally, a microtonal song that isn't just a bunch of arpeggios in a row
amazing job, I loved it!
It's just 12 tet with a bunch of random notes
@@DeeCeeHaich it's 31-tet lmao
@@DeeCeeHaich okay and? If the tuning division was a multiple of 12 like 24- or 36-tet, then you'd be right, but 31 isn't divisible by 12 so the notes that are being played don't overlap with 12-tet at all (except for maybe the octaves)
this style feels so good for my ears my mind my heart and my soul
I’m really loving the new era of microtones that’ll take over soon
I hope to God they do not, they sound terribly off-tune
@@noahdienel2598too late, they already here
@@noahdienel2598 equal temperament is technically "out of tune"
One of my favorite standards, so cool on this guy. Thanks!
good ol' michael tonal bringing us another banger
that digital vibe is just amazingly nuts 😍
never heard samba/bossa nova on a harpsicord.. i love it!!! :0
That is a very interesting instrument. Well played!
Wonderfully played. RIP Chick 🙏
Sound like Bossa Nova, so beautiful ❤
as a pianist, i feel threatened
but otherwise, props to you!
The way it ends so suddenly is a crime
would absolutely love to hear some Nancarrow piece with this, perhaps his Study No. 3c
microtonal music will always be so natural and unnatural at the same time i love it
This is so complex, anybody wishing to analyse it would have their brains converted to musical mush. It's not rocket science, it's worse than that, its music theory Jim, but not as we know it.........😊😊😊
It's trash.
@@DeeCeeHaich whats your deal bro
@@DeeCeeHaichyou’re trash
It's much better than his attempt at microtonality so I don't get why he's talking@sus-kupp
0:35 The way it resolves is so trippy and unexpected
Easily the best use of microtonality I've seen so far. Not just wild harmonization for the sake of it, which many microtonal writers get caught up with, but proper songwriting that is strangely catchy. Great work.
i feel sorry for people who think microtonal stuff sounds "out of tune" when to me its actually just perfection
I feel sorry for you being suck a dork
@@Gholdenbro_shut up westernhead
音楽とゆうもので初めて涙を流してしまった。
this feels like a song you’d hear when you were 7 on an incredibly rare nintendo wii error screen in the middle of the night when you weren’t supposed to be up that would scare the crap out of you so you’d shut it off and never hear it again but it would linger in the back of your mind as a sort of haunting melody that you know but you just can’t remember where it was from until years later when it gets recommended to you on youtube and you suddenly remember
or maybe it’s just a weird lil ditty idk
I come back to this video twice a week at the very least. Thanks
Look, I'm a piano tuner and composer, and I absolutely love the idea of non 12TET keyboards and love that people make music with them and interpret music in different ways, opening up so many possibilities and breaking away from the established concepts
But man have I spent way too long going hardcore with 12TET for any of this to sound appealing to me
ik it sounds wrong but you just gotta get used to it
Yea man you gotta listen to the music not the instrument.
@@salt8888e that's the thing, I spent 10 months tuning an instrument to equal temperament every single day, by ear, and I do it for a job. It's going to take far more time than I have to break that mould and listen to other temperaments.
It would be more appealing if he made use of microtonality correctly. This is no different from a beginner playing some random nonsense in 12 tet.
I feel light as a feather after listening to this! 🪶
one might say that it takes you 500 miles high even 😉
this is such a yummy instrument and i wish i could have one
Wonderful love the microtones
チューニングずれてるのかと思ったけど、この楽器微分音まで弾けるのか！すごい
I searched up ONCE "microtonal music" and now youtube thinks my life is microtonal music. Also great song!
1:05 you are a legitimately gifted brilliant musician you must have trained since you were a toddler
0:44 Christ! Samba guitar jumpscare! Goosebumps, straight-up (compliment)
IDK why but the texture on the keys looks like its very satisfying to touch, anyone else feel that way?
This is one of my favorite songs! Thank you for this!
amazing work!
Pyszne!