BudjarnLambeth
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* Location: New South Wales, Australia | * Location: New South Wales, Australia | ||
* Born: 1999 | * Born: 1999 | ||
* Pronouns: he/she | * Pronouns: they/he/she (bigender) | ||
* Nationality: Bundjalung (Aboriginal) and Australian | * Nationality: Bundjalung (Aboriginal) and Australian | ||
* Qualifications: BSc Environmental Management, Macquarie University (2021) | |||
* Contactable at: https://www.facebook.com/budjarnlambeth/ or on my [[User talk:BudjarnLambeth|talk page]] | * Contactable at: https://www.facebook.com/budjarnlambeth/ or on my [[User talk:BudjarnLambeth|talk page]] | ||
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== Music I made == | == Music I made == | ||
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Playlist contents: | Playlist contents: | ||
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! Title !! Date !! Link!! Tuning / Notes | ! Title !! Date !! Link!! Tuning / Notes | ||
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| '''Enchanted Shopping Mall''' || 2024-02 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=scCuGXnj5IY YouTube]|| 33edo, flattertone[7] scale; synthwave | | '''Enchanted Shopping Mall''' || 2024-02 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=scCuGXnj5IY YouTube]|| 33edo, flattertone[7] scale; synthwave | ||
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| '''The Wound''' || 2024-11 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NepcrTf9ng YouTube]|| Rocket[19]/ | | '''The Wound''' || 2024-11 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NepcrTf9ng YouTube]|| Rocket[19]/deutone[19], 5-tone subset - 'cosmic scale'; electronic contemporary classical | ||
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| '''Fennec Temple''' || 2020 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lIEmJTPkSFQ YouTube]|| 14edo, 7-tone fennec scale; piece for electronic flutes | |||
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| '''The Odd Effects of Breathing the Fairy Dust''' || 2026-03 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDbqf3g88BE YouTube]|| 59edo, porcupine[15] scale; electronic contemporary classical | | '''The Odd Effects of Breathing the Fairy Dust''' || 2026-03 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDbqf3g88BE YouTube]|| 59edo, porcupine[15] scale; electronic contemporary classical | ||
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| ''' | | '''Ibex''' || 2025-12 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CqBmABrTRas YouTube]|| 13edo, 6-tone ibex scale; electronic contemporary classical | ||
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| '''Moody Improvisation in Shoal Temperament''' || 2025-02 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGjN56iMM0 YouTube]|| Shoal temperament; electronic contemporary classical | |||
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| '''Grady Olympos Staircase Tuning Chord Progression''' || 2024-04 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q1sZkMZVUCE YouTube]|| Darksynth | |||
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| '''Strange Findings in the Caves''' || 2025-10 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aWqdWHSk5J4 YouTube]|| 343edo, lucite[23] scale; electronic contemporary classical | |||
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| '''The Bells in the Rain''' || 2025-05 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tIwfO1lZWAc YouTube]|| 21edo, pelog-like pentatonic; electronic contemporary classical; using a custom scale for struck metal timbres | | '''The Bells in the Rain''' || 2025-05 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tIwfO1lZWAc YouTube]|| 21edo, pelog-like pentatonic; electronic contemporary classical; using a custom scale for struck metal timbres | ||
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| '''Blackened Skies''' || 2020 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWMRJihZbPc YouTube]|| 72edo, modified blues scale; darksynth | | '''Blackened Skies''' || 2020 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWMRJihZbPc YouTube]|| 72edo, modified blues scale; darksynth | ||
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| ''' | | '''Will-O-Wisps''' || 2025-11 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JrpcIkElKQc YouTube]|| 27edo, will-o-wisp scale; electronic contemporary classical | ||
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| '''Lighting the Jack-o'-lanterns''' || 2025-10 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPXaMTdTSgw YouTube]|| 35edo, Blackwood[20] scale; electronic contemporary classical | | '''Lighting the Jack-o'-lanterns''' || 2025-10 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPXaMTdTSgw YouTube]|| 35edo, Blackwood[20] scale; electronic contemporary classical | ||
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| ''' | | '''Rain Drops on Palm Leaves''' || 2026-08 || [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p73TGfpwWYU YouTube]|| 72edo, catakleismic[15] scale; electronic contemporary classical/kosmiche musik | ||
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* '''[[User:BudjarnLambeth/Moon dust|Moon Dust]] scale:''' A 16-tone just intonation scale with a period of 16/1 (four octaves). It features dynamic step sizes and a mix of familiar 3-limit harmonies with xenharmonic 19-limit (no-5, no-13) intervals. | * '''[[User:BudjarnLambeth/Moon dust|Moon Dust]] scale:''' A 16-tone just intonation scale with a period of 16/1 (four octaves). It features dynamic step sizes and a mix of familiar 3-limit harmonies with xenharmonic 19-limit (no-5, no-13) intervals. | ||
* '''[[Firedance]] scale:''' A 5-tone subset of zeta-stretched 15edo (47zpi). It was designed by ear, starting from 5edo and adjusting steps by degrees of 15edo. | * '''[[Firedance]] scale:''' A 5-tone subset of zeta-stretched 15edo (47zpi). It was designed by ear, starting from 5edo and adjusting steps by degrees of 15edo. | ||
'''''Many more listed at [[User:BudjarnLambeth#Invented tunings (scales)]].''''' | |||
===== How I construct a scale ===== | |||
Occasionally people (often people who are way more musically talented than me!) say things to me like "I wish I knew as much as you. How do you discover so many scales that good music can be made out of? What theory do I have to study to be able to do what you do?" | |||
The reality is, I don't have access to any kind of special super deep theory. I can't figure out how to do all the complicated lattice and comma stuff either! You can do it too, it just takes a long time, but it doesn't require expertise. | |||
What I do is I spend a really long time messing around in Scale Workshop, starting with a familiar known scale, or a randomly generated scale, and then just making little changes to it to make it sound slightly better. | |||
I will test every combination of notes, and if one clashes with the others a lot, I'll change or remove that one. | |||
I'll noodle some improvised melodies, and if I hear in my head a note I want to play but it's not in the scale, I'll add it. | |||
I'll adjust the tuning of each interval up or down a little bit, trying other nearby intervals, until it sounds maximally harmonious to my ear. | |||
Then I'll noodle some more and try to hear which note sounds like the root, and rotate the scale to officially make it the root. | |||
And I'll repeat this whole entire process over and over, with different synth timbres and different pitch ranges (bass, treble, etc) until the scale sounds sweet and vibrant to me, and then I'll name it, document it, and maybe eventually make music with it. | |||
That's my process. | |||
As for where the scale names come from, usually they come from the visual image I imagine in my head as I'm noodling in the finished scale, or sometimes they are named after an existing scale that they are a modification of. The name is usually one of those two things. | |||
==== Tuning recommendations ==== | ==== Tuning recommendations ==== | ||
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* [[the Riemann zeta function and tuning#Non-record edos|Local zeta valley EDOs]] | * [[the Riemann zeta function and tuning#Non-record edos|Local zeta valley EDOs]] | ||
* [[the Riemann zeta function and tuning#''k''-ary peak EDOs|Parker EDOs]] | * [[the Riemann zeta function and tuning#''k''-ary peak EDOs|Parker EDOs]] | ||
* [[Human EDO size categorization]] ( | * [[user:BudjarnLambeth/HueCat|Human EDO size categorization]] (HueCat) | ||
* [[Metascale]]s | * [[Metascale]]s | ||
* [[Runoff]] scales | * [[Runoff]] scales | ||
* [[User:BudjarnLambeth/SimHue|Simple heuristic for EDO comparison]] (SimHue) | |||
* [[Structural beating]] | * [[Structural beating]] | ||
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* The [[9edf#Scales|molten slendro]] scale | * The [[9edf#Scales|molten slendro]] scale | ||
* The [[38edo#Scales|nineteenplus]] scale | * The [[38edo#Scales|nineteenplus]] scale | ||
* The [[30afdo#Scales|neutral melodic minor]] scale | |||
* The [[oclock]] scale | * The [[oclock]] scale | ||
* The [[37edo#Scales|opalised ammonite]] scale | * The [[37edo#Scales|opalised ammonite]] scale | ||
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* The [[38edo#Scales|well-tempered 19-in-38]] scale | * The [[38edo#Scales|well-tempered 19-in-38]] scale | ||
* The [[Maeve Gutierrez#Will-o-wisps' scale|will-o-wisps']] scale | * The [[Maeve Gutierrez#Will-o-wisps' scale|will-o-wisps']] scale | ||
* The [[User:BudjarnLambeth/Volcanic glass|volcanic glass]] scale | |||
* The [[26ed5#13ed5plus|13ed5plus]] scale | * The [[26ed5#13ed5plus|13ed5plus]] scale | ||
* The [[antipental blues]] scale ''and its expansions'': | * The [[antipental blues]] scale ''and its expansions'': | ||
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** The [[Maeve Gutierrez#Gutierrez sunbreak scale|negative harmony sunbreak]] scale | ** The [[Maeve Gutierrez#Gutierrez sunbreak scale|negative harmony sunbreak]] scale | ||
** The [[Maeve Gutierrez#Gutierrez sunbreak scale|fractalized sunbreak]] scale | ** The [[Maeve Gutierrez#Gutierrez sunbreak scale|fractalized sunbreak]] scale | ||
* All the scales listed at: [[User:BudjarnLambeth/Quasipelog theory]] | * All the scales listed at: [[User:BudjarnLambeth/Quasipelog theory]] | ||
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* The [[anisopteran scale]] | * The [[anisopteran scale]] | ||
* The [[14afdo#Scales|apex]] scale | * The [[14afdo#Scales|apex]] scale | ||
* The [[30afdo#Scales|baobab]] scale | |||
* The [[30edo#Scales|bathypelagic]] scale | * The [[30edo#Scales|bathypelagic]] scale | ||
* The [[blackened skies]] scale | * The [[blackened skies]] scale | ||
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* The [[Peppermint-24#Salt and pepper scale and its subsets|evacuated planet]] scale | * The [[Peppermint-24#Salt and pepper scale and its subsets|evacuated planet]] scale | ||
* The [[firedance]] scale | * The [[firedance]] scale | ||
* The [[18ifdo#Scales|fireflies]] scale | |||
* The [[5- to 10-tone scales from the modes of the harmonic series#Macrotonal NEJI edos|fishcrackers]] scale | * The [[5- to 10-tone scales from the modes of the harmonic series#Macrotonal NEJI edos|fishcrackers]] scale | ||
* The [[67edo#Scales|formicarium]] scale | * The [[67edo#Scales|formicarium]] scale | ||
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* The [[16afdo#Scales|moonbeam]] scale | * The [[16afdo#Scales|moonbeam]] scale | ||
* The [[moon dust]] scale | * The [[moon dust]] scale | ||
* The [[30afdo#Scales|mushroom]] scale | |||
* The [[30edo#Scales|nightdrive]] scale | * The [[30edo#Scales|nightdrive]] scale | ||
* The [[User:BudjarnLambeth/Over the Hedge|Over the Hedge]] scale | * The [[User:BudjarnLambeth/Over the Hedge|Over the Hedge]] scale | ||
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* The [[8afdo#Scales|ultraviolet]] scale | * The [[8afdo#Scales|ultraviolet]] scale | ||
* The [[8afdo#Scales|undercurrent]] scale | * The [[8afdo#Scales|undercurrent]] scale | ||
* The [[11ifdo#Scales|undersea cave]] scale | |||
* The [[67edo#Scales|understory]] scale | * The [[67edo#Scales|understory]] scale | ||
* The [[8afdo#Scales|upwelling]] scale | * The [[8afdo#Scales|upwelling]] scale | ||