Oddmusic Bonus: There are two notes in this album in which the piano has been prepared with a nail. Find them!
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EFFLUVE ANA MOONTENSE—Music for retuned pianos and voice; a gateway into a sound world of unknown unknowns.
The global organization of music is almost complete. When it is complete, music itself will offer no new potentials (except when propped up by the potentials of other, less organized systems such as children).
The pursuit of Xenharmonic Music reverses this decay, recognizing the legitimacy of possibilities which were prematurely discarded and systematically hidden from musicians for the past few centuries.
Which old patterns must be resisted for truly new systems to emerge?
New technologies are slowly breaching the classic vicious cycle—"We need good music to justify building new instruments, but we need new instruments in order to compose good music"—but the significance of xenharmonics is still invisible.
Only acts of composition—meetings of whimsy and rigor—can make the invisible visible.
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