Sevish - This Track

Alternative electronic music, 90s influenced, just intonation microtonal. I'm back and this is the first of 13 tracks that I'm going to upload here, having just released my new album One With the Fractal. Go find it on whichever streaming service you prefer, or grab it from my Bandcamp, all my links are down below in the description. Tomorrow there's a listening party for the full album here on youtube. Some of the listeners here are microtonal lore masters so check out the live chat and we can all listen together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HxwZVcjUzY I usually like to start an album with an uptempo one. This is one of those tracks which started with a tuning design. I was paying attention to how some traditions use scales where a tetrachord is stacked on a pentachord. I started to imagine what it would be like to take different qualities of pentachord and stack them up so that you overshoot the octave and repeat at 9/4 instead. Then I considered stacking three pentachords for a scale that repeats at 27/8. I came up with a few examples and auditioned them. One particular example was the scale I used for This Track. The pentachords are: 1/1, 9/8, 6/5, 4/3, 3/2 (minor) 1/1, 9/8, 5/4, 11/8, 3/2 (harmonics 8:9:10:11:12) 1/1, 9/8, 7/6, 4/3, 3/2 (subminor) So each pentachord starts on 1/1 where the previous one finished on 3/2. As you climb stepwise up the scale you cycle through these three pentachords. It's another example of non-octave just intonation that I'm fond of. While there is a 7/6 subminor third in one of the pentachords, the real intention of that note was to be 7/4 above the 1/1 of the pentachord below. The resulting scale is 9/8, 6/5, 4/3, 3/2, 27/16, 15/8, 33/16, 9/4, 81/32, 21/8, 3/1, 27/8 There are couple examples of rhythmic tempering in This Track. One before the first downtempo section and one after it. This Track started off as a fast tempo tune but I much prefer the downtempo sections that were added later. The bass sound is a sampled 808 bass layered with a high-passed LinnDrum kick. Love that combo. Sometimes an FM slap bass joins in unison for bass bliss. Play along with this music using your qwerty keyboard at the Scale Workshop link: https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/?n=This%20Track&l=9F8_6F5_4F3_3F2__9F8SPS3F2_5F4SPS3F2_bF8SPS3F2_3F2SPS3F2__9F8SPS3F2SPS3F2_7F6SPS3F2SPS3F2_4F3SPS3F2SPS3F2_3F2SPS3F2SPS3F2&f=64&version=2.5.7 ----- Other ways to play Sevish: https://sevish.com/bandcamp https://sevish.com/spotify https://sevish.com/apple https://sevish.com/soundcloud https://sevish.com/deezer https://sevish.com Stuff: https://sevish.com/discord https://sevish.com/ko-fi https://merch.sevish.com