This is the free access TOP 22 EDO
special from #144 issue of
Positionen magazine.
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Translation:
This selection brings together 22 artistic positions that exemplify the ‘xenharmonic space’ in an audible way. These are albums and individual pieces that explicitly work with alternative ‘equal divisions of the octave’ (EDO) – i.e. equal temperament systems that divide the octave into more (or fewer) than 12 steps. The spectrum spans countless genres – from new new music instrumentations, jazz ensembles, black metal, synthesiser ambient and EDM to sound experiments with bagpipes and electric basses. The curiosity to explore sound systems and the fun of experimenting with subversive tuning policies appeals to musicians from a wide variety of fields. The projects gathered here – from Dolores Catherino to Brendan Byrnes, Adam Neely, The Mercury Tree, to historical visionaries such as Ivor Darreg – understand tuning as a parameter for unlocking artistic-expressive worlds of experience. Whether 17, 22 or 10600 EDO: they are all part of what Sevish calls the "unconscious collective project of composing music in all conceivable forms of sound organisation". This list is not a canon, but a map. It invites you to move through a sound territory by listening, in which the familiar appears in a new light through unfamiliar means of expression and in which what was initially out of tune and distorted can, after a while, be experienced as harmonious in itself. The list is not exhaustive, but rather a starting point for further exploration.
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