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Zhea Erose - Disfiguration [just intonated string work] (Patreon)

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2021-10-07 15:03:19

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2026-06

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Hi everyone. I've been sick for nearly 2 weeks and have completely lost my voice during this period. I've been quite frustrated because I can't film videos, can't do audio feedback, can't teach lessons, and can't record vocal music.

This piece is kind of the embodiment of frustration, anxiety, and concern. It feels a bit like the unanswered question.

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Zhea Erose - DISFIGURATION [just intonation]

I've been hard at work on my LP. However, this past week I've been railroaded by a respiratory infection which has made recording vocals for the album impossible. I got bored tonight and wrote this in one sitting. I wanted to write something that captured the frustration I am feeling with this illness in the form of an unanswered question-like slow choral-esque work. This is a lot more dissonantly xen than what I usually write but I really like it. I hope this exposes you to sonorities and harmonies you've never experienced. It's polysystemic in that there are multiple tonal centers occurring in a traditional polytonal way but each tonal center actually has an entirely different just intonation tuning. The tunings used are as follows: parts of harmony are in 15-tone novemdecimal supernaiadic / diatonic split scale 76:77:82:86:88:91:96:99:104:109:114:128:132:136:144:152 melody and much harmony is in a non octave scale: 27-tone harmonic deep structure 16:9:12:16:24:36:40:54:60:68:76:92:104:112:136:160:216:256:288:344:408:456:544:608:736:816:976 hope you enjoy this grotesque string work. warmly, z