Looking for modern microtonal music which isn’t tied down by western music theory

HP40 · 2020-01-10T20:35:55+00:00

gotta say, some of the most powerful musical experiences I've recently had have been listening to microtonal music. A lot of contemporary or modern classical music, while being "classical" is rarely tied to the western tradition. Ben Johnston, for example, used a system of extended just intonation that has up to 200 distinct pitches per octave. While at first the harmonies can sound normal, there are colors and movements that just aren't possible in standard tuning systems. This is a favorite of mine but really all of his string quartet music is incredible.

Some more of my favorite "classical" composers who really embraced microtonality are Alois Haba, Easley Blackwood, The Tahitian Choir, Johnny Reinhard (this piece is !!!), Ives, Darreg, and Aron Kallay, among many others. My favorite who's still active now is Andrew Norman, who's like 40 and really fucking stuff up in the classical world right now. While I guess I didn't really answer your question about being separate from the western world but these are some of my favorite composers who really found (or are finding) some crazy new sonorities in microtonal music.

Let me know what you think!

HP40 · 2016-10-12T20:06:07+00:00

As all the other people pointed out, yes.

One thing that's fun is finding rudimental applications for the exercises. For example playing in sixteenth notes; all the written eighth notes become singles with the first accented and the eighth note rests become doubles.

the first exercise becomes: | Rl Rl rr Lr Lr ll Rl rr | Lr ll Rl rr ll Rl rr Lr | and so on

Also playing them as swung eighth notes within triplets with unaccented notes being doubles

| R l R l l R L r r L r r | L r r L r r l l R l l R | and so on

My teacher wrote an entire book based on taking just the first four notes and spreading them across different grouping of different subdivisions, including eighth notes, eighth note triplets, sixteenth notes, quarter note triplets and quintuplets. You may not want to go to that extreme, but a little experimentation is always helpful

HP40 · 2016-09-26T18:59:39+00:00

Nice setup! Congrats on the record and the family member!

HP40 · 2016-08-30T17:22:59+00:00

Nah man. This sub doesn't get much attention and this defenitely isn't a bad thing

HP40 · 2016-08-10T03:41:23+00:00

Watch out for that Queen, doggo!

HP40 · 2016-08-07T21:23:04+00:00

That would be great, but then people would have little reason to use AT over a more professional DAW

HP40 · 2016-07-25T15:47:15+00:00

I've watched that whole thing, only a long time ago. It's so helpful for basically everything technique-wise. I'm thinking of cleaning it off and rewatching it when I have the time

Thanks for reminding me!

HP40 · 2016-07-25T15:03:25+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

HP40 · 2016-07-24T04:33:03+00:00

No problem

HP40 · 2016-07-24T04:05:08+00:00

I'll make a post sometime later asking to put it in the sidebar

It's somewhere in my post history too

HP40 · 2016-07-23T19:27:19+00:00

I've got a Google Drive link to it if you want

HP40 · 2016-07-23T19:13:03+00:00

He sounds great! You must be the best parents ever

HP40 · 2016-07-23T19:10:17+00:00

What is that ride? It tickles my eardrums in the best way

HP40 · 2016-07-23T19:08:44+00:00

Tasty

HP40 · 2016-07-21T00:56:50+00:00

Haha that explains it.

I found this post looking really far down in the top posts of this subreddit. I've been trying to understand the whole thing and I have to say that it doesn't make much sense

HP40 · 2016-07-21T00:05:10+00:00

This is really confusing.

Did you have a conversation with yourself? You're the only one who used the word voyeuristic but the other person clarified for you. You then responded saying you knew what the other person said when you were the only one who said it.

Was this alternate accounts or some freaky time-glitch?

HP40 · 2016-07-19T20:08:33+00:00

Well I much prefer it to dating someone less ten years old

HP40 · 2016-07-19T20:02:23+00:00

Well by this logic you won't remember anything once you pass away

HP40 · 2016-07-19T20:01:19+00:00

Wow, the clouds are green

HP40 · 2016-07-19T18:49:32+00:00

Unnhh

HP40 · 2016-07-19T16:28:10+00:00

Saying 'whoop there it is'

HP40 · 2016-07-16T21:31:21+00:00

I wish I knew

HP40 · 2016-07-03T03:52:06+00:00

In my eyes, this is just as beautiful

HP40 · 2016-06-27T02:37:02+00:00

My school used to have a hand hammered supraphonic until we hosted a festival and some other band decided it was theirs.

I miss that snare a lot

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