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27-note MEGA CHORD - but it's Microtonal (Patreon)

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2021-08-05 14:48:16

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I spend a lot of time making massive chords in JI. Someone named Rahul Peter recently posted a large 27-note, 12 pitch class chord from a Jacob Collier T-shirt and asked how it could be tuned microtonal. I thought this was kinda fun so I went ahead and made a video on it. Everyone responded positively to the small clip I made in the other thread so I hope y'all enjoy this.

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Jacob Collier's 27-NOTE MEGA CHORD but it's MICROTONAL!?

So I came across this 27-note, 12 pitch class chord from a Jacob Collier t-shirt. Someone asked me how you could tune this microtonally. There are infinite amount of ways to interpret and tune this. However, being a composer of just intonation, I naturally saw a pretty simple and clear tuning for it. I made it and it seemed that people thought it was cool. This is 15 discrete pitches. Essentially a 12-neji from 5th octave of /2. However instead of 12 notes it has 3 pitches which act like color commas for shimmer 51:52, 60:61, and 56:57. Here is the entire enumerated chord split between the two hands: LH: 9:12:16:24:36:40:54:60:68:76 RH: 92:104:112:136:160:216:256:288:344:408:456:544:608:736:816:976 This is basically a voiced out version of: 2:3:5:7:9:13:15:17:19:23:27:43:51:57:61 ►BANDCAMP: https://zheaerosemusic.bandcamp.com/ ►INSTAGRAM : https://www.instagram.com/digital.harmonic/ ►PATREON: https://patreon.com/transvoicelessons Also while you're here, everyone always asks me, "what do you think of Jacob Collier." I think he's a great musician with great musical sensitivity. We are doing different things so I'm surprised to be compared to him so often. I suspect at some point in the distant future our roads will cross in some kind of epic microtonal jam. warmly, z 00:00 Intro 00:24 Staggered Chord 00:53 More Musical 01:15 The Top Half 01:36 Saw Waves 01:48 Outro