Split Notes Microtonal Netlabel

A new xenharmonic album by knowsur has just gone live. Really infectious electronic dance/house/glitchy beats and the unique sounds of microtonality. Free download of course.

I focused on the 7 tone equal temperament (7-tet) scale as a means for making danceable music. This album is composed of a mode using 7-tet as a diatonic scale and 14-tet as a chromatic scale.

SUNERU: Enjoyed playing with simple melodies and waveform editing.

HIKARU: The Second Viennese School’s twelve-tone technique has an unexpectedly ‘popular’ sound when applied in 7-tet.

HANERU: I made this track as I pleased.

YOMU: I used perfectly paralleled melodies and tried to show the surprisingly amiable character of a 7-tet pentatonic scale.

OUCHI: In 7-tet, we cannot possibly make any unpleasant chords. I used this feature to play polyrhythms.

HAIIRO NO UMI NO SOKO DE: A vocal song in 7-tet. I realized this by using YAMAHA VOCALOID2 vocal synthesizer and by setting pitches with a plugin called “はちゅ～ん”.

ASOBU: By using two 7-tet scales inside one 14-tet scale I created a mode change.