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New Album!! Harmony in Filth

Article 1 June 2023

I've been working on the concept for this project for a while now. Ever since I began improvising with abstract sounds and microtonal synth patches on my keyboard(s), I knew that they deserved an album to be placed on. These tracks span in creation from 2020 to present. Maybe I'll make a detailed rundown of those dates at a later time. For now, here it is for all to listen and enjoy! SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/7hpH98T4SYYHPlY68eX0Sf?si=c3d075db36c64052 BANDCAMP: ...

 

Round 2 - New Beat Tape/Instrumental Album Out Now

Article 2 June 2021

Full Album on YouTube

 

Microtonality: Relinquishing Outdated Musical Traditions and its Applications in a Möbius Canon

Article 6 February 2021

Music is one of the most creative forms of emotional and personal expression that humans have created during our time on this planet. Unsurprisingly, when musicians started using instruments, tuning methods were necessary to play different intervals, chords, and accompaniments to vocals or other instruments with decent consonance. By discovering basic relations such as the 2:1 (octave) and 2:3 and 3:2 (perfect 5th and 12th), instruments developed tunings with various numbers of notes in between to ...

 

My Chromesthesia: a Brief Introduction

Article 21 December 2020

My synesthesia is under the sound-visual variance, also known as chromesthesia . This means that whenever I hear any kind of sound, whether it is interpreted as music or not, I see a corresponding visual output in my head. Now of course, I don't see these visuals in my direct field of vision - think about it like this. If I were to ask you to picture a castle in your mind, you would probably envision a Disney or fairytale castle of some sort. Although I would probably envision the Nuremberg castle, the ...