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Korg Monologue microtonal ambient performance

This is a melodic deep exploration of a tonal structure called the dekany. Specifically the 2-out-of-5 dekany with factors 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. The dekany contains five different 6-note subsets called hexanies. In this piece of music, each section uses a different hexany. You will hear that each hexany has its own clear and distinct colour. A 1:3:5:7:9 drone plays throughout to underlie the melodies. The fascinating thing is, the resulting dekany doesn't contain 1/1, therefore the melodies never use 1/1 from the drone and therefore don't quite "come home"; they always float on top in a harmonious way.

The Korg Monologue is a monophonic analogue synthesiser which allows for custom "microtonal" tunings. I set up one tuning for each of the five hexanies, and then assigned those tunings to a series of saved patches. To perform the piece and its modulating through hexanies, I simply needed to perform my way through this series of pre-prepared patches. Each scale is linearly mapped to the keyboard, such that 6 steps on the keyboard is heard as one octave. This way, the Monologue's tiny keyboard provides a generous 4 octaves of range!

Because only one voice can be played at a time on a monophonic synth, I multitracked the drone in my DAW. The five drone parts were then carefully looped so they would span the entire performance. My melodies were then played through a network of delay lines. So you'll hear apparently tens of overlapping lines simultaneously.

The fundamental of this tonal structure is tuned to 64 Hz. Later I discovered, because of the way the maths work out, that 432 Hz is part of this tuning. But before you sigh-matic, this music will not regrow amputated limbs or heal DNA. Though it's pretty meditative so maybe you can cure insomnia or do some yoga while listening.

00:00 Murmurations 1 3 5 9
06:26 Murmurations 3 5 7 9
14:18 Murmurations 1 3 7 9
22:41 Murmurations 1 5 7 9
29:17 Murmurations 1 3 5 7
35:29 Murmurations 1 3 5 9 Reprise

If you are listening on Spotify or other streaming services then you'll notice the track names are different to what is shown above. That's because the correct names that I submitted were rejected for reasons that were never clearly explained to me. The correct names are shown on Bandcamp.

TUNING - DRONE
Harmonics 1:3:5:7:9 on 64Hz
https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/?n=Harmonics%201%3A3%3A5%3A7%3A9%20on%2064Hz&l=3F1_5F1_7F1_9F1_1F1&f=1s&m=1o&version=2.0.1

TUNING - MELODY
Dekany CPS 2)5 1.3.5.7.9
https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/?n=Dekany%20CPS%202%295%201.3.5.7.9&l=9F8_7F6_5F4_lFg_zFo_3F2_5F3_7F4_fF8_2F1&f=5c&m=1o&version=2.0.1

Thanks for listening

Sevish