Amelia Huff - "Departure" (Improvisation in 31-EDO, Lumatone Artist Series)

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
  • Amelia Huff (‪@ZheannaErose‬) is back for the Lumatone Artist Series with another microtonal improvisation, this one being in 31-EDO. Filmed live in Indiana. In this piece, Amelia pays homage to a previous piece of work called "Arrival." Stay tuned for more full performances and interviews with inspiring artists as part of the new Lumatone Artist Series!
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Комментарии • 83

  • @Ascendance1992
    @Ascendance1992 2 месяца назад +14

    I am so happy to be a violinist knowing a microtonal keyboard exists as well.

  • @mopishlynx2323
    @mopishlynx2323 11 месяцев назад +133

    I want to go back in time and show this to Bach

    • @filmlets
      @filmlets 10 месяцев назад +31

      "bro i spent my fucking entire lifetime trying to not sound like this"
      .
      I'm not disrespecting the song, but Bach played with various temperaments until he found out the Well-Temperament

    • @Kram1032
      @Kram1032 7 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@filmlets Gotta wonder what these musicians would've done differently with the comparatively low effort of switching temperaments digitally like this
      Like, tuning a piano takes aaaages, but digitally you can shift every note very easily to whatever

    • @matiasmorant4484
      @matiasmorant4484 7 месяцев назад +30

      In summary, You want to go Bach in time

    • @G8tr1522
      @G8tr1522 7 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@Kram1032apparently bach could tune his harpsichord in 15-minutes, and would retune it multiple times a day.

    • @Kram1032
      @Kram1032 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@G8tr1522 that sounds very fast

  • @mr88cet
    @mr88cet Год назад +62

    I’d heard of 31TET waaaay back in 1977, but I hadn’t done much of anything with it until _Lumatone made it _*_so easy_*_ to work with_ !
    It’s an amazingly versatile and good-sounding tuning, and yet very easy too for both our ears and our minds to make sense of, as well as fertile ground for expression!
    Amelia here, as well as Mike Battaglia and others, demonstrate all of the above seemingly effortlessly!

    • @puffinwrangler7557
      @puffinwrangler7557 Год назад +1

      Hi Mr. Morrison. Yes, that was a great performance from Ms. Huff. So, who will set up your own 88-cent scale on the Lumatone and improvise with it? I composed for electric guitar for Melle Weijters in your scale, which you may find here: ruclips.net/video/xlMxRzu4cB0/видео.html&pp=ygUjdG9kZCBoYXJyb3AgbWVsbGUgd2VpanRlcnMgc3Vuc2hpbmU%3D

    • @mr88cet
      @mr88cet Год назад +1

      @@puffinwrangler7557, nice … “atmospheric,” for lack of a better term … guitar work! Is that 41TET? It’s challenging enough to _count_ the frets let alone play them, but the frets look closer together than what I’d expect for 31?
      For whatever it’s worth, I find that 88CET tuning maps to a traditional keyboard nicely, provided that I can map out the G#/Ab. You can then have a circle of fifths rotating through a 7:4 subminor 7th, which “looks like” the octave in notation. So then, you get from that a system of “pseudo-diatonic” scales and “pseudo-keys.”
      Lumatone makes it really easy to map out the G#/Ab key, but with a comparatively-large step size of 88c, it’s probably more convenient to have the larger keys of a traditional keyboard.

  • @DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop
    @DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop 7 месяцев назад +12

    This makes me feel something I don't have the vocabulary for, but it's good.

  • @tabor503
    @tabor503 Год назад +5

    I wanna do music like this

  • @theguitarsofmatthewgrasso
    @theguitarsofmatthewgrasso Год назад +1

    Bravo! Very Beautiful.

  • @denes.andras
    @denes.andras Год назад +2

    Amazing 😮

  • @PetraBrown
    @PetraBrown 4 месяца назад

    JB Bach will get the giggles playing with this keyboard Amelia, His ‘Sheep Will Safely Graze’ played with various tones, Ah Ha! ❤ from Petra Brown, Ewe can imagine his face.

  • @PetraBrown
    @PetraBrown 6 месяцев назад

    A beautiful sound Amelia, From Petra-B xxx🐱

  • @ONESOULBEAT
    @ONESOULBEAT Год назад +1

    Is this LTN available?

  • @robertmcdonell831
    @robertmcdonell831 4 месяца назад +1

    I can almost hear those stilted lo-fi hip hop drums in a few places

  • @AndrewsVideoTips143
    @AndrewsVideoTips143 21 день назад +3

    This song is a FREAKIN VIBE! I love the chord progression at 2:39

  • @ONESOULBEAT
    @ONESOULBEAT Год назад +35

    My favorite of your Lumatone performances BY FAR!!

    • @user-fw9nb6pk9m
      @user-fw9nb6pk9m Год назад +1

      Check out Zheanna Erose and Cam Taylor

    • @composerjalen
      @composerjalen Год назад

      ​@@user-fw9nb6pk9mthis video is Zheanna

    • @vapourmile
      @vapourmile 3 месяца назад

      @@user-fw9nb6pk9m
      Check it out to be sure but I think you will find Zhea Erose, Zheanna Erose and Amelia Huff are quite probably different names for the same person. :)

  • @ezequielgerstelbodoha9492
    @ezequielgerstelbodoha9492 4 месяца назад +2

    As much as I like the 31 EDO system, and pieces like this one, there's an important factor that is lost: the symmetry. The fact that the diminished seventh chord belongs to 4 different keys helps the ear to accept dissonances more easily, and to modulate smoothly into different tonalities, not mentioning that this symetric use of the mediants has been really important for the development of modern jazz.
    I think that as 31 EDO might be useful sometimes in jazz for creating some new tensions, I would rather like it to found its own sound and natural development, being an independent style of music

  • @lydiaelsewhere1504
    @lydiaelsewhere1504 Год назад +19

    Beautiful music, Z 🤩

  • @frequencymanipulator
    @frequencymanipulator Год назад +30

    According to @lumi-musictheory3476 31 EDO is Super-diatonic, Super-mavila, and Hyper-diatonic. Yay.

    • @meru_lpz
      @meru_lpz Год назад +3

      What is the meaning of "Super-diatonic", "Super-mavila", and "Hyper-diatonic"? 😅

    • @romeolz
      @romeolz Год назад +4

      ​@@meru_lpz i remember it has something to do with the sharpness/flatness of the fifth
      You can get a better explanation from @Lumi - Music & Theory's video "Making sense of microtones by stacking fifths"

  • @vilvotha
    @vilvotha Год назад +12

    Omg this is beautiful- what a fantastic example of how to include unusual intervals in a piece. I looked the artist up on spotify and didnt see her. I would love to have a collection of this type of stuff to listen to- i would purchase it. In a way, i feel like ive always been looking for music like this- but its hard to find beautiful music that INCLUDES those dissonant (as our brainwashed ears hear it) tones without being overwhelmed by them or noisy.

    • @stirlingblackwood
      @stirlingblackwood 5 месяцев назад +4

      Her artist name is Zhea Erose - she has a great song called “Sola” on here that I think is also on Spotify.

    • @vilvotha
      @vilvotha 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@stirlingblackwood thanks!!

  • @mr88cet
    @mr88cet Год назад +5

    Way-cool improv! Thanks for sharing.
    Next step, incorporate the “whoa!” harmonies from your “Paranola.”

  • @UltraLeetJ
    @UltraLeetJ Год назад +9

    this is superb.. what would be the easiest way to experiment with this if I cannot yet afford a lumatone?

    • @jonahbranch5625
      @jonahbranch5625 Год назад +1

      I think there are regular MIDI keyboards which let you reprogram the inputs

    • @o-k9267
      @o-k9267 Год назад +4

      You can remap the frequencies of any digital keyboard / piano with midi support, some even allow you to do so straight in the instrument. Of course it'll limit the number of octaves and you'll have to re-learn the tone layouts.

    • @mintegral1719
      @mintegral1719 Год назад +4

      The awesome microtonal artist Sevish created a website that lets you choose/create any tuning you want, and export it in a number of formats that are accepted by various VST synths. I think my comment would get deleted if I put the link in it, but it shouldn't be too hard to find. And then yeah, you can just play it on a regular MIDI keyboard. Although I did learn the hard way that 31TET is very difficult to play on a normal keyboard without giant hands...

  • @5StringTheory
    @5StringTheory Год назад +7

    Love it so much, those spisy harmonies :)

  • @musicalchas
    @musicalchas Год назад +3

    This is amazing, i wish there were an angle straight above your hands!

  • @cd-zw2tt
    @cd-zw2tt 7 месяцев назад +12

    one of the most palatable microtonal things I've ever heard. if mike battaglia is giving us some more of the subtle usages of it, this is the "deep" end

  • @notabagel
    @notabagel 9 месяцев назад +2

    little nardis at 1:37

  • @shedidntthinkthisthrough
    @shedidntthinkthisthrough 4 месяца назад +1

    It’s amazing and she’s amazing I love her 🥺

  • @the_allucinator
    @the_allucinator 11 месяцев назад +2

    A bit jazzy

  • @robertmcdonell831
    @robertmcdonell831 4 месяца назад

    It's amazing, I've done so much deep listening of piano for so long that I've had 12TET ingrained into my ear, to the extent that I can even tell certain notes apart from each other, when I hear them out of nowhere I might know it's an A for example.
    But the more I listen to this song the less out of tune it sounds. I think my mind is starting to wrap itself around these microtones

  • @PetraBrown
    @PetraBrown 2 месяца назад

    Links trying on a pair of skinny jeans, oh comfy ❤ Petra

  • @akashboinpally4389
    @akashboinpally4389 Год назад +2

    damn thats good

  • @Rilkir
    @Rilkir Год назад +1

    I see that this has its own power supply. So does it always have to be be hooked up to a computer/laptop due to the software, or can you just use it "standalone" where it's only hooked up to the hardware synthesizer that it's sending MIDI to?

    • @moontan91
      @moontan91 Год назад +1

      it can be hooked up to a hardware synthesizer.
      but i don't know if hardware synths can respond to microtonal scales.

  • @nycReaching
    @nycReaching Год назад

    vivid

  • @lante612
    @lante612 Год назад

    I love this

  • @leboinator7621
    @leboinator7621 8 месяцев назад +3

    at about 2:00 did anyone feel like she was gonna hit the licc

  • @weitzhandler
    @weitzhandler 9 месяцев назад +1

    0:52 wtf was that?

    • @isaacpianos5208
      @isaacpianos5208 5 месяцев назад +3

      It's microtonal music, shit happens lol

  • @emfox6280
    @emfox6280 11 месяцев назад

    Sounds slightly out of tune…?

    • @leftaroundabout
      @leftaroundabout 10 месяцев назад +11

      But what is "in tune"? It depends on what you're used to. To me, the pinnacle of intonation are good string quartets, Barbershop singers and similar, who use mostly just intonation. Compared to that, 12-edo instruments like standard piano actually are always a bit out of tune. 31-edo can get much closer to JI, though of course with that many notes it can also do stuff that's brutally dissonant.

    • @dr.banane8038
      @dr.banane8038 10 месяцев назад +2

      She plays in another tone space with different notes, I think it sounds more in tune than normally

    • @martinr7728
      @martinr7728 9 месяцев назад

      I've listened to this many times now and the offness of it in my head is almost completely gone

    • @dr.banane8038
      @dr.banane8038 9 месяцев назад

      @@martinr7728 after a bit time of getting used to it, it sounds way better than 12 edo

    • @martinr7728
      @martinr7728 9 месяцев назад +2

      I dunno, to me it just sounds different. Some of the basic intervals are less accurate, some are more accurate, and some of the intervals are completely new!@@dr.banane8038

  • @MySoundscore
    @MySoundscore Год назад +4

    Just why?
    Awesome skills, but it still hurts my ears.
    Am I really alone with that feeling?

    • @lumatone
      @lumatone  Год назад +26

      You're probably not alone, no! In this big beautiful world, you're never alone!
      But a whole lot of folks would likely disagree with you too.
      That's the beautiful subjectivity of music.
      We -- and many of the folks on our channel -- love these sounds.

    • @G8tr1522
      @G8tr1522 Год назад +6

      you have to listen with a different attitude. Don't expect a pretty tune, but brace for intense clashes of tones. Like bracing down before eating something spicy for the first time, you should take a deep breath and try to taste all the unfamiliar flavors.

    • @VictorGrand
      @VictorGrand Год назад +11

      I see it as trying a cup of coffee for the first time. At least for me, I hated the taste of coffee but stuck with trying to keep tasting it here and there. Now I have a palette that allows for coffee to surprise, astound and delight me. Different musical temperaments are really outside of the palette we're surrounded by and used to in the west, as Abby already said. Maybe you may surprise yourself with what you come to enjoy about it over time if you give it another try here and there!

    • @Teckiels24
      @Teckiels24 Год назад +6

      No, i used to be the same way, after a while the dissonances become no more sour than those in 12 tone, while the consonances acquire a deep and subtle beauty

    • @Persun_McPersonson
      @Persun_McPersonson Год назад +9

      If you're trained on a single tuning your entire life, then a wildly different tuning like this will sound unnatural and out of tune. It takes purposeful self-exposure an alternate tuning in order for your mind to adapt to it and see it in a similar way to 12TET.

  • @zlatkodraskovic5532
    @zlatkodraskovic5532 6 месяцев назад +1

    So relaxing… 🇦🇺❤️

  • @shitmandood
    @shitmandood 6 месяцев назад +1

    It’s really training my ears.