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21 August, 2007

Quicky EP: Just intoned drones

So given that i've now made myself a virtual instrument that can make sexy just intoned sinewave clusters, i decided to jam a bit with it and share some possibilities with everyone.

What you're hearing in this set of four jams, chorus and reverb notwithstanding, are up to 11 simultaneous sinewaves arranged in varyingly simple and complex mathematical proportions to one another. Because they're so very simple, there's a weird stasis in the sound. The tones throb and purr and ripple and sing and scrape in surprisingly complicated ways, and when they lock together consonantly they lock together fast. Rightly so after all, since just intonation is such a consonance-laden system.

As with Four Sine Cluster (link), there are two atonal tracks and two tonal tracks. This time the prettiest one is last in the suggested listening sequence. Total runtime is approximately 26 minutes at the moment, though i'll probably edit some of the tracks quietly when nobody's noticed..

Tracks:
A: atonal cluster drone
B: half diminished drone
C: space cluster drone
D: added second drone

If you want to have a go yourself, here's the 11-oscillator version of Justin with 256-stage multiple select and individual oscillator phase control. Even has an oscilloscope as well.

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