Sevish - Come on a Journey (non octave harmonic series)

From the album Horixens – https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/hor...

Come on a Journey is the opening track to my album Horixens. It's a prog-ish, cinematic breakbeat track in a microtonal scale. Sounds messed up but if that's the kind of music you wanted to hear today, that's the kind of music I make.

This is tuned to a non-octave-repeating segment of the harmonic series. Specifically harmonics 16-24. This tuning repeats at the perfect fifth. It's not to say that the tuning contains NO octaves, because there are certainly octaves here (e.g. the octave between 9/8 and 9/4). Octaves are far more scarce in this tuning so you cannot take any pitch class and transpose it up or down by an indefinite number of octaves. But you can transpose indefinitely by perfect fifths, because this tuning repeats at the perfect fifth! What this means is considerable limitation on voicings and compositional choices in general. It also sort of means that higher ranges of the tuning feel like they're in a different key to lower ranges. I don't know if I'm explaining that correctly, or if that comes across in the music. I'm not really a music theory guy.

I did actually cheat at one point to make the track work. It's just one section where I transpose the sub bass instrument down two octaves so that it can double another instrument in a higher range. If you listened to the Now&Xen podcast episode with Elaine Walker then you know I take it very seriously that the sub bass wants to have octave-based relationships with other instruments, so I always end up cheating on these non-octave tracks. Specifically with the bass because treble is forgiving but bass really matters. Hope that doesn't bother anyone. Personally I'd rather cheat and enjoy the result, than follow teh rules and let my bass sound out of tune. What do you think?

Play along using your qwerty keys (Scale Workshop):
https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/?nam...

https://sevish.com/bandcamp
https://sevish.com/spotify
https://sevish.com/apple
https://sevish.com/soundcloud
https://sevish.com/deezer
https://sevish.com/twitter
https://sevish.com/blog
https://sevish.com

Here's a secret message for people who scroll down to the bottom of the description. I've been writing a lot more music recently. I tend to release an album every 2 years or so. Well if I keep up my current levels of inspiration then maybe you all won't have to wait quite as long. Let's just say there are new Sevish tracks that nobody has heard yet. Some of them with the potential to be new favourites. Maybe? If you have read this secret message then you can discreetly acknowledge this by including the word "maybe" when you comment.