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

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  • čas přidán 5. 09. 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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Komentáře • 83

  • @mopishlynx2323
    @mopishlynx2323 Před 10 měsíci +126

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

    • @filmlets
      @filmlets Před 9 měsíci +29

      "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 Před 6 měsíci +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 Před 6 měsíci +29

      In summary, You want to go Bach in time

    • @G8tr1522
      @G8tr1522 Před 6 měsíci +6

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

    • @Kram1032
      @Kram1032 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@G8tr1522 that sounds very fast

  • @Ascendance1992
    @Ascendance1992 Před měsícem +11

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

  • @DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop
    @DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop Před 7 měsíci +12

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

  • @ONESOULBEAT
    @ONESOULBEAT Před rokem +34

    My favorite of your Lumatone performances BY FAR!!

    • @user-fw9nb6pk9m
      @user-fw9nb6pk9m Před rokem +1

      Check out Zheanna Erose and Cam Taylor

    • @composerjalen
      @composerjalen Před rokem

      ​@@user-fw9nb6pk9mthis video is Zheanna

    • @vapourmile
      @vapourmile Před 2 měsíci

      @@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. :)

  • @mr88cet
    @mr88cet Před rokem +60

    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 Před rokem +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: czcams.com/video/xlMxRzu4cB0/video.html&pp=ygUjdG9kZCBoYXJyb3AgbWVsbGUgd2VpanRlcnMgc3Vuc2hpbmU%3D

    • @mr88cet
      @mr88cet Před rokem +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.

  • @vilvotha
    @vilvotha Před 11 měsíci +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 Před 5 měsíci +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 Před 5 měsíci +2

      @@stirlingblackwood thanks!!

  • @lydiaelsewhere1504
    @lydiaelsewhere1504 Před rokem +19

    Beautiful music, Z 🤩

  • @cd-zw2tt
    @cd-zw2tt Před 6 měsíci +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

  • @shedidntthinkthisthrough
    @shedidntthinkthisthrough Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @5StringTheory
    @5StringTheory Před rokem +7

    Love it so much, those spisy harmonies :)

  • @ezequielgerstelbodoha9492
    @ezequielgerstelbodoha9492 Před 3 měsíci +1

    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

  • @mr88cet
    @mr88cet Před rokem +5

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

  • @tabor503
    @tabor503 Před rokem +5

    I wanna do music like this

  • @musicalchas
    @musicalchas Před rokem +3

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

  • @denes.andras
    @denes.andras Před rokem +2

    Amazing 😮

  • @UltraLeetJ
    @UltraLeetJ Před rokem +9

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

    • @jonahbranch5625
      @jonahbranch5625 Před rokem +1

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

    • @o-k9267
      @o-k9267 Před rokem +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 Před 11 měsíci +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...

  • @theguitarsofmatthewgrasso
    @theguitarsofmatthewgrasso Před 11 měsíci +1

    Bravo! Very Beautiful.

  • @user-qk2eb2yf3l
    @user-qk2eb2yf3l Před 5 měsíci

    A beautiful sound Amelia, From Petra-B xxx🐱

  • @zlatkodraskovic5532
    @zlatkodraskovic5532 Před 6 měsíci +1

    So relaxing… 🇦🇺❤️

  • @user-qk2eb2yf3l
    @user-qk2eb2yf3l Před 3 měsíci

    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.

  • @akashboinpally4389
    @akashboinpally4389 Před rokem +2

    damn thats good

  • @user-hx1gw3qb3v
    @user-hx1gw3qb3v Před 2 měsíci

    she looks cool

  • @frequencymanipulator
    @frequencymanipulator Před rokem +29

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

    • @meru_lpz
      @meru_lpz Před rokem +3

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

    • @romeolz
      @romeolz Před rokem +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"

  • @lante612
    @lante612 Před rokem

    I love this

  • @robertmcdonell831
    @robertmcdonell831 Před 3 měsíci

    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

  • @nycReaching
    @nycReaching Před rokem

    vivid

  • @Rilkir
    @Rilkir Před rokem +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 Před rokem +1

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

  • @ONESOULBEAT
    @ONESOULBEAT Před rokem +1

    Is this LTN available?

  • @robertmcdonell831
    @robertmcdonell831 Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @user-qk2eb2yf3l
    @user-qk2eb2yf3l Před 2 měsíci

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

  • @notabagel
    @notabagel Před 8 měsíci +2

    little nardis at 1:37

  • @the_allucinator
    @the_allucinator Před 10 měsíci +2

    A bit jazzy

  • @leboinator7621
    @leboinator7621 Před 8 měsíci +2

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

  • @weitzhandler
    @weitzhandler Před 8 měsíci

    0:52 wtf was that?

  • @MySoundscore
    @MySoundscore Před rokem +4

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

    • @lumatone
      @lumatone  Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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.

  • @emfox6280
    @emfox6280 Před 10 měsíci

    Sounds slightly out of tune…?

    • @leftaroundabout
      @leftaroundabout Před 10 měsíci +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 Před 9 měsíci +2

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

    • @martinr7728
      @martinr7728 Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @dr.banane8038
      @dr.banane8038 Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @martinr7728
      @martinr7728 Před 8 měsíci +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

  • @shitmandood
    @shitmandood Před 5 měsíci +1

    It’s really training my ears.