Bending The Fabric Of Scales with Levi McClain (31-Note Microtonalist)

This one goes to eleven… NO this one goes to 31! Levi’s all-in on expanding our musical palette. We talked about what colors and emotions are available in microtonality, how to get into the wild world, and the frontiers of music theory.

Sometimes it feels like everything in music has been “figured out.” Levi’s here to tell us that couldn’t be further from the truth!

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Where it mostly all started. The peaks and the valleys. The life force. Opening doors. Heliocentricity. Coalesce. Comfortable enough. Embed the effect. A lot of beauty in doing that. Stereo picture placement. Reinforcing this idea. Actual practice. Treat the shimmer tone. Some very interesting intonation. A dash of cayenne. A weird sensation. A good blend. Different aspects. Through acoustic synthesis. Like a sonic photograph. Tactile experience. A really interesting mirror. Symmetry. Duplicating the signal. Genuinely connected. Dove into the bread and butter. That weird bag. Formant shifting. Wonderful and different. Everything kind of influences everything. At the continuum. The tributaries of creativity. Over the mountain. Through pitch. Justly intonated. The harmony of the spheres. Dig deep. The reason. In between the spaces. New tools. To innovate further. Load in microtonal tunings. Time and place. In the vast landscape. Fully enmeshed things. A lot closer together. Microtonailty. Something that’s real. Kind of like a diatonic approach. Such a good analog. Downstream. From the music theory lens. A bundle of instruments. More notes. Pitch shifted. New flavors. Get over that hump. In terms of frequencies. The math is elegant. A wonderful thing. About the harmonic series. The embodied self. Harmonic ratios. Shimmer chords. This really cool iconic sound. Perfectly reasonable. To the timbre of a given instrument. A cool project. Really beautiful. Pleasing sounds. Fluid. Play a series of notes. Play effectively. The wolf interval. Ear math. Utility. Map it to musical parameters. 🌌

Edited by Rebecca Sansom
Set Design by Max Horwich
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